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Ropemaking at Peak Cavern

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/S579 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Ropemaking at Peak Cavern

Level: Item

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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