The factory blacksmiths shop machines contributed to the construction of plant and equipment used at ICI, Billingham. 
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The factory blacksmiths shop machines contributed to the construction of plant and equipment used at ICI, Billingham.
I believe the game is known as quoits and the blacksmiths made them in their spare time. I remember Bob Wood, Ivor Ransome and Ken Cowing as the blacksmiths with Ken being the leading hand – all three were very helpful with any request. Ken became a leading lawn green bowler at Synthonia club and is still bowling today and winning trophies. He also became a useful golfer at Billingham golf club. The blacksmith shop is now raised to the ground as is the machine shop opposite. Obviously a very noisy shop in full production with the hammers banging away!! Very skillful men.
The Blacksmiths Shop was a fascinating place. In 1955 I was an apprentice in the Machine Shops just over the road from the Blacksmiths Shop. I made many visits just to see the older Blacksmiths applying their skills on the old but impressive Steam Hammers. They would hammer white-hot ingots of metal taken directly from the Forge and in no time at all they had the finished article having checked the dimensions with large metal callipers. The work-pieces would then be delivered to the Machine Shops for machining. Weather permitting I spent all of my half-hour lunch-breaks watching the old Blacksmiths play a very serious game of Horseshoe Pitching. (I hasten to add that the horseshoes were not made during ICI time). On waste ground outside the Blacksmiths Shop the Smithys had prepared a pitching-box filled with sand and containing a metal stake about one inch in diameter sticking up about fifteen inches above the surface. The contestants would throw horseshoes weighing about two and a half pounds with the intention of landing nearest to the stake. As far as I can remember, any horseshoe completely encircling the stake was called a “ringer” and scored maximum points. The skill and accuracy was incredible and my lunch-time breaks disappeared in no time.