Harness makers did belong to the` same guild as coachmakers. Cheers Cara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Doyle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:01 AM Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN] Coachbuilders > Hi Colette, Coachbuilders were actually like joiners are today. They built > traps ( open family transport), carriages etc, all pulled by horses. One > horse per trap, two horses per carriage, 4 horses for 1st class citizens, > who would take the family to the shops. The Guild was akin to a union. Pay > to join + only accesable to Protestants plus a verified trade. > Harnessmakers were a different trade alltogether. > A harnessmaker was just that + usually had a small shop akin to a booth > newsagent today. > Blacksmiths had one labourer or Tboy (because tea-making was in his job > description). He held the horses foot when the smith hooved it. He had his > business in a garage-like shop. > If you think of what a garage looks like at the side of a house, halve it, > take away the shutters+the house, of course. Then you have a Blacksmith's > Forge. > Maggie > > > > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- Do any of you ever get to the bottom of this mail?, and > do you remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the > SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter