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Alex House

House also does extensive voice over work for radio and television including animated series, Smithy on Jane and the Dragon and Ozuma on Beyblade, as well as playing Ace on the new season of Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Bagsecg

According to local folklore in Berkshire, Bagsecg was buried at Waylands Smithy and his Earls at The Seven Barrows ; this is wrong as Waylands Smithy dates back to Neolithic times and The Seven Barrows dates back to the Bronze Age, If this is the case then the Barrows could have been reused for burial over the course of time.

Carol Thurston

Thurston never acted again after the role of Smithy's wife in the 1963 Audie Murphy western film, Showdown.

Commando Leopard

Along with Carrasco's native fighters are Smithy (Steiner), a British mercenary, and Maria, a native ex medical-student turned freedom fighter.

Hook, Fareham

Initially built to serve the estate, the smithy and wheelwright’s shop gradually expanded to serve the much wider area of Warsash and Locks Heath, becoming a small industrial centre providing woodwork and ironwork for the district.

Hurst Green, Lancashire

Will Greenwood - England World Cup winning Rugby Union Player was brought up on Smithy Row, Hurst Green, by Sue and Dick Greenwood, the latter also an England Rugby international.

Murfin Music International

Murfin Music International and Murfin Media are companies run by Muff Murfin, and are based at The Old Smithy Studios in Kempsey, Worcestershire, England.

Muriel Steinbeck

She is best known for her performance as the wife of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in Smithy (1946) and for playing the lead role in Autumn Affair (1956), Australia's first television serial.

The Harmonious Blacksmith

The story is that Handel, when working for James Brydges the future Duke of Chandos at Cannons between 1717 and 1718, once took shelter from the rain in a smithy, and was inspired to write his tune upon hearing the hammer on the anvil; the regularly repeated pedal note (B in the right hand) in the first variation, can give the impression of a blacksmith hammering.

Wayland the Smith

During the Viking Age in northern England, Wayland is depicted in his smithy, surrounded by his tools, at Halton, Lancashire, and fleeing from his royal captor by clinging to a flying bird, on crosses at Leeds, West Yorkshire, and at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Bedale, both in North Yorkshire.

Wayland's Smithy

Julian Cope included a song called ""Wayland's Smithy Has Wings"" on his 1992 album The Skellington Chronicles.


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