Thanks for that slowhands. I imagine there was money to be made as a blacksmith, enough to set up a shop maybe?

I have just found some of the following info.

Ronald H Beach born 1919, I have found just one marriage for a Ronald H in
St Albans 1944, wife was a Vera Jones. (if this was him)

And daughter Maureen J Beach born 1923, she definately married Graham Hose in 1946 here in the Forest.

I have never come across the surname Hose before.

Ronald and his wife both died in a car crash probably in the 1950's, my brother thinks there were children. On with the show. cheers fred