Meet Neil, a 3rd generation blacksmith from Hackney. He started learning his trade at 14 from his father, just like his father before him, and now runs a workshop in Stepney City Farm. It’s a dangerous profession with occupational hazards (3rd degree burns, ripped fingers…), but an inherent love of the trade keeps him involved. Like many tradesmen Neil had to adapt to the deindustrialization of the 1970s, and he now practices as a design Blacksmith, which sits at odds with the more traditional work of his father and grandfather. Will he be able to pass his trade on to the next generation?