When he retired to Bridlington in 1978, Albert Craven had spent 72 years as a forger.  He had been born in Sheffield on 16 January 1895, the son of a slater, John William Craven, and his wife, Ann.  When Albert was filmed in Bridlington (a film available on YouTube), he recalled that he had been apprenticed in about 1906 at Joseph Rodgers & Sons.  In the Census (1911), he was a pen blade forger living in Wellfield Road.  He eventually had a workshop in Broomspring Lane and later at Joseph Elliot’s.  He claimed: ‘I was one of the fastest forgers Sheffield has ever had … I could complete [on small work] two gross in one day’.   Albert Craven died in Bridlington in 1989, aged 94.