Village Blacksmith

A Memory of Lower Upnor.

My grandfather, Mr Lambert was the village blacksmith and lived in Pier Road. The smithy, I recall, being at the end of the row of cottages in an alleyway. His home was flooded out in the 1953 floods and I would be very interested in anyone who could supply a photo of the smithy. I was only 5 or 6 at the time and have very vague memories of it. He used to do repairs on the Lodge Hill railway line and over on the islands in the Medway. My mother used to remember rowing over to them with him, and also rowing into Chatham to shop.