Forging ahead playfully

Forging ahead playfully

Adrian Wood. A chance visit to a forge gave Adrian his first taste of blacksmithing. “From the first moment I hit the hot steel I knew what I wanted to do.”

To the left of the porch is a symbolic carved acorn (part of the Oak Leaf Sculpture Trail that will lead you around the outskirts of town). To the right of the school is the old workhouse, the former fire station (once home to Masham’s horse-drawn fire engine) and the nail-studded door of the prison.