Drop forge anvil, Wisewood Forge site
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Drop forge anvil, Wisewood Forge site
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 5 Apr 2012
The Wisewood Forge site has been recently redeveloped for housing. Ever since the Byker in the mid-1970s Image it has become standard practice to incorporate features and materials from a site into the successor development. They acknowledge the past and create a connection with it. In contrast with another forge anvil placed in a formal setting and thereby given significance, this example, sadly, is merely incongruous.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.400732
Longitude
-1.520484