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Cooper's Tools Diagram
[1950s-1960s]
Labelled ms. diagrams of the various kinds of tool used by a cooper. The tools depicted include a bek iron, hammer, driver, flagging irons, adze, heading knife, axe, hollow knife, jigger and band saw.
The Coopers' Company, the Craft, and Gauging Casks
O'Neill, G M
1967
A thesis examining the history and practise of coopering, including a section outlining the history of the Coopers Company of London , and a description of hand coopering based on interviews with coop...
Local Woodcrafts
Walton, James
1940
Article on the history of woodcrafts in the Halifax/ Calderdale area, published in the 'Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society' (dated 5 October 1940). Includes sections on the woods themselv...
Theakston's of Masham: A Study of the Traditional Craft of Brewing
Halliday, Robert Wilson
[1973]
M.A. dissertation which contains a brief description of Masham, with an account of the history of the brewery and the Theakston family, and chapters on the process of making beer, the brewery premises...
The Living Dialect of Queensbury, Near Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding
Ambler, Pamela J
1954
A study of the dialect spoken in Queensbury in West Yorkshire. An introduction to the town is followed by a chapter which gives a descriptive account of the dialect in 1954 (with sections on vowels ...