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Ropemaking Device

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1229 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Ropemaking Device

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1229

Creator(s): Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

Site Location(s): Subject - West Ord, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom( 55.75, -2.06667 )

Date(s): Summer 1958

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412169

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Cast-iron ropemaking device, Low Bells Shielon the River Tweed, near West Ord (Northumberland). The device has one hook and is mounted on wheels. A projecting footboard at the rear is missing. It was used for making cable-laid rope from old (salmon) fishing nets. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1228. With typed note.


Originally held in Photo File: Ropemaking.

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Email requesting permission for re-use as per attached sent to archivist kirsty.stewart@ed.ac.uk 09/09/2022

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