Ropemaking at Peak Cavern
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Ropemaking at Peak Cavern
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/S579
Creator(s): McNay, Ian
Site Location(s): Subject - Castleton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.3431, -1.77506 )
Date(s): September 1965
Size and medium: 1 slide in plastic casing.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/413694
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Ropemaker Herbert Marrison, here aged 83, pictured with ropes and ropemaking equipment at Peak Cavern, Castleton (Derbyshire). The Duke of Devonshire left ropemaking in the cavern rent-free in perpetuity, and it continued there for over 500 years. At least four generations of Mr. Morrison's family worked in the rope trade.
Originally held in green slide cabinet, reference B85.
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