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Wooden Industries
1959-1974
This file contains extracts and cuttings on boat-building, hurdle-making and other industries centred on wood, including D. Phillips Birt's article, 'Last Days of the Wooden Boat', extracted from 'Cou...
Marble-Finishing
1980
This file contains a cutting from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post' on Allan Preston, a tradesman skilled in the art of giving surfaces a marble-effect finish (14 July 1980).
Basket, Straw and Rope-Work
1960-1973
This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Baske...
Skin and Leatherwork; Shoe and Clogmaking
1962-1979
This file contains items relating to clogs and clogmaking, including typed notes on the clogger, Lancashire clogs, and questions on clogs and cloggers, from Burnley Grammar School for the G.C.E. in Ha...
Textiles
1960-1981
This file contains items on textile industries, including a photocopy of Arthur J. Saundry's article on the tucking mill, from an issue of 'Old Cornwall' (1960); a typed letter and notes, from Fred Br...
Nailmaking, Blacksmiths, Steel, Etc.
1963-1974
This file includes a typed transcript of an interview between Fred Hobbis and E. John Penny on nailmaking in Northfield, Birmingham (June 1963); Evelyn Leonard's article on Tom Merrill and hand-forgin...
Stonework
1969-1979
This file contains items relating to stone industries and related crafts, including a photocopy of the Appendix to Horace Harman's 'Buckinghamshire Dialect' (reprinted Wakefield: S. R. Publishers, 197...
Alum, Salt and Gunpowder
1966-1979
This file includes a photocopy of Bryan Waites's article on medieval salt-making in Teesmouth, from the 'Dalesman', volume 40, number 10 (January 1979), pp. 838-839; Geoffrey N. Wright's article on a ...
Building Technique
1966-1973
This file contains items relating to buildings and construction techniques, and includes photocopies of maps showing the location of aisle-trusses in Welsh buildings, and aisled buildings in Yorkshire...
Topping Out Ceremonies
1951-1974
This file contains items relating to topping-out ceremonies, a tradition in the building industry marking either the roofing-in of a building, or the half-way stage in the construction of a building. ...
Builders' Customs: Topping Out
March-April 1968
This file consists of correspondence between Stewart Sanderson and various correspondents connected with the building industry, regarding topping-out ceremonies. The correspondents include Norbert F. ...
Woodworkers' Tools
1972-1973
This file contains typed correspondence from W. L. Goodman to Stewart Sanderson and Tony Green on the terminology of woodworkers' tools from the 16th and 17th centuries (23 December 1972 - 6 April 197...