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weird job
« on: Monday 08 September 08 14:40 BST (UK) »
can anyone help and tell me what a spadeplater is my great grandfather on my nans side was one and have never heard of it before.

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Re: weird job
« Reply #1 on: Monday 08 September 08 15:46 BST (UK) »
A Spade Plater, aka Shovel Plater, was a Smith (or Blacksmith) who forged by hand or power hammer a block of heated steel into the shape of a spade or shovel.
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Re: weird job
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 11 September 08 14:17 BST (UK) »
thanks stan turns out to be not so weird after all

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Re: weird job
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 11 September 08 16:34 BST (UK) »
Would a spadeplater have worked in a spade mill ???

The last working water-driven spade mill in daily use in the British Isles is located at Templepatrick, Co. Antrim www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-pattersonsspademill
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