Ropemaking Device
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Ropemaking Device
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1230
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/412170
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Male demonstrating a cast-iron ropemaking device, Low Bells Shielon the River Tweed, near West Ord (Northumberland) (as pictured in LAVC/PHO/P1227). The device has three hand-forged hooks, and was used for making cable-laid rope from old (salmon) fishing nets. In this photograph, lengths of net are attached to each of the hooks and twisted. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note.
Originally held in Photo File: Ropemaking.
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