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Ropemaking: The Big Top

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/S582 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Ropemaking: The Big Top

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/S582

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/413697

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Media credit University of Leeds

Description

Ropemaker Herbert Marrison demonstrating the use of a tap, or big top (so called because of its shape) at Peak Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire. The device is inserted in the cart (pictured in LAVC/PHO/S581) to control the twist of the rope and to keep it even. Hemp strands run along each groove, and with the broad end towards the wheel (pictured in LAVC/PHO/S580) the ropemaker can be assured that the rope forming behind him is properly balanced.


Originally held in green slide cabinet, reference B89.

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