Hand-tinted postcard photo of the smithy (forge) at Minster, Thanet, Kent, England. The photographer was Fred C. Palmer of Tower Studio, Herne Bay, Kent, who is believed to have died 1936-1939. The postcard is believed to be dated 1903-1904 because Palmer moved to Herne Bay in 1903, and because it's printed in Saxony it must be dated before 1914. Also, another card by him in the same style is postmarked 1904. File:Fred C Palmer 008.jpg and File:Fred C Palmer Minster 128.jpg are similarly coloured postcards of Minster by Fred C. Palmer; the three are possibly part of a set. This scene is tidily arranged and posed to show off the smithy's trade. You can just make out the front of a heavy horse, for shoeing, between the two blacksmiths. The trees have darkened with age, but in front of them, along the side of the roadway, you can just make out the iron machinery and implements waiting for repair. A lot of the work involved fitting the iron tyres round the cartwheels, hence the neat display of a cart on the right.