Great Yorkshire Show - Tuesday July 13 - Friday July 16th 2021
For the first time run over four days, Annabelle
Bradley, Artist Blacksmith from the Malham Smithy, will be joined by a team of professional and amateur smiths from around
the UK, exhibiting and demonstrating the craft to the public throughout the show.
Professional and student blacksmiths
are welcome to take part in the live forging demonstrations and competitions.
2020 Exhibitions and Shows cancelled due to COVID-19
Blacksmith Show Demonstrations
Blacksmith Show Demonstrations
Great Yorkshire Show - Tuesday July 9 - Thursday July 11th 2019
Annabelle Bradley, Artist Blacksmith from
the Malham Smithy, will be joined by a team of professional and amateur smiths from around the UK, exhibiting and demonstrating
the craft to the public throughout the show.
Malham Show is held annually in the heart of beautiful Malhamdale
in the Yorkshire Dales on August Bank Holiday Saturday. Under the shadow of Malham Cove this traditional agricultural and
family country show has been taking place for over 100 years.
Artist Blacksmith from the Malham Smithy, Annabelle
Bradley, will be demonstrating the craft to the public during the show.
"Maker Faire Uk is the greatest show (and tell)
on Earth! Taking place on Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 Aril 2018 at Life Science Centre in Newcastle, it's a two day family-friendly
festival of invention an creativity."
Visitors took the opportunity to watch blacksmithing demonstrations
as well as having hands-on experience at the anvil, taking part in short one-on-one sessions, striking hot metal to form basic
shapes.
Great Yorkshire Show - Tuesday July 10 - Thursday July 13th 2018
Annabelle Bradley, Artist Blacksmith from
the Malham Smithy, will be joined by a team of professional and amateur smiths from around the UK, exhibiting and demonstrating
the craft to the public throughout the show.
"Maker Faire is the greatest show (and tell) on
Earth! Taking place on Sunday 29 July 2018 at Riverside Transport Museum Glasgow, it's a family-friendly festival
of invention an creativity."
Demonstrating traditional blacksmithing techniques, working on a coke forge
powered by air bellows. Watch the metal being heated up to 1400°, glowing white hot and the blacksmith striking on the
anvil, forging the metal into shape using techniques such as drawing down, punching, twisting and bending - all by hammer
and hand.
Visitors will also get the opportunity to have hands-on experience at the anvil, taking part in short one-on-one
sessions, striking hot metal to form basic shapes.
Malham Show is held annually in the heart of beautiful Malhamdale
in the Yorkshire Dales on August Bank Holiday Saturday. Under the shadow of Malham Cove this traditional agricultural and
family country show has been taking place for over 100 years.
Artist Blacksmith from the Malham Smithy, Annabelle
Bradley, will be demonstrating the craft to the public during the show.
Period Living ~ June 2019 ~ Made in Britain feature
Writer
Heather Dixon and Photographer Jeremy Phillips visited the Malham Smithy to watch the ancient blacksmiths forge in
action, as Annabelle Bradley takes to the anvil, moving metal, by hammer and hand.
Television Features on the Malham Smithy:
The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes, forging a traditional horn burner in the Malham
Smithy blacksmith shop
Monday 17th June 2019 - Series 3 Episode 4
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy featured on More4 The Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes
Annabelle forges a horn burner, with Ram's Head handle, for local Yorkshire Dales farmer.
Back to the Land with Kate Humble, visits Malham Smithy female Artist Blacksmith, Annabelle
Bradley.
Monday 21st May 2018 - Episode 9
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy
Kate Humble is celebrating rural Britain as she takes viewers on a journey across the country to meet inspirational entrepreneurs
taking big leaps to pioneer rural revolution.
Escape to the Country presenter, Ginny Buckley, tries her hand at Blacksmithing at the Malham Smithy with Artist Blacksmith,
Annabelle Bradley.
27th April 2018
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy with Ginny Buckley
"Ginny visits the village of Malham where a passionate female blacksmith has forged a place for herself
in the county's blacksmithing heritage."
Ginny Buckley takes on the role of student to learn blacksmithing
techniques from female Artist Blacksmith, Annabelle Bradley, in the Malham Smithy where beginners blacksmithing day courses
are run weekly.
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy with Anita Rani
"This week on Countryfile Anita Rani travels to one of her favourite places in the British countryside,
Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales.
It's a precious landscape that she's visited since growing
up as a child in nearby Bradford. She learns more about this unique landscape and how it was formed thousands of years ago.
She meets an artist, Katharine Holmes, whose passion, like her mother's and grandmother's before, is painting nearby
Gordale Scar. She meets Anita in the pouring rain to show her her latest work. In the village of Malham, Anita catches up
with the latest incumbent of the local smithy. Annabelle Bradley used to be a tax accountant, but when the smithy came up
for lease she changed career and her life took a completely different direction. Anita has been to Malham Cove many times,
but she's never climbed the walls of this famous limestone amphitheatre - until now. After a quick lesson she tackles
one of the biggest challenges she's ever faced on the programme."
Malham Smithy Blacksmith, Annabelle Bradley, Features on ITV's 'Best Walks
with a View' with Julia Bradbury
April 2016
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy with Julia Bradbury
Rams Head bottle openers and Malham Smithy hearts have been in 'hot' demand after featuring on ITV's
'Best Walks With a View' with Julia Bradbury in April 2016. The television crew visited Annabelle Bradley at work
in the Malham Smithy forging a rams head bottle opener for Julia Bradbury to take away on her walk around Malhamdale.
The Malham Smithy blacksmith has featured in the press and television frequently over the past few years, with Annabelle
teaching the basics of forgework to Alex Jones on the One Show and forging chandeliers on The Dales programme with Adrian
Edmondson. Annabelle has recently had an exhibition in the Yorkshire Dales National Park Centre in Malham, which featured
photographs of Annabelle at work on the anvil by Photographer Shaun Richardson. The exhibition photographs are available to
view in the Malham Smithy gallery.
The One Show's Alex Jones, tries her hand at the forge with Annabelle Bradley at the Great Yorkshire Show
July
2015
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy with Alex Jones at the Great Yorkshire Show
The One Show presenter, Alex Jones, visited the Wrought Ironwork stand at the Great Yorkshire Show. Alex tried her
hand at the forge under the guidance of blacksmith, Annabelle Bradley. They began forging a heart on camera, which Annabelle
later finished during the show in time for the live broadcast in the evening.
ITV's 'The Dales' with Ade Edmondson, featuring Annabelle Bradley
2011
Annabelle Bradley at the Malham Smithy
The summer months of 2011 have seen the Malham Smithy put into
the limelight as Blacksmith Annabelle Bradley has been followed at work by a documentary film crew.
‘The
Dales' has followed the lives of a number of characters in the Yorkshire Dales this Summer, one being Malham resident
and village blacksmith Annabelle Bradley.
The production team followed Annabelle through the trials of completing a
project of making three large scale bespoke chandeliers for local hostelry, The Buck Inn at Malham.
