Held at:	DHS Private Collection
Reference:	RS
Source:	Digital copy of original photographs
Title:	Digital Archive: Local craftsmen at work
Place name:	Golden Valley
Date:	1900s

Description:

Photographs of local craftsmen at work in Dorstone village in the Golden Valley, probably taken in the early 20^th Century. These are part of a collection held by the Dorstone History Society and are reproduced here with their kind permission.

 

Clog makers in the woods at Hill Dingle, Dorstone, c.1900, cutting and stacking ‘blanks’ to season.

The wood was probably Alder, which was sought after locally for clog-making.

 

Itinerant cider-makers with their mobile cider press at the Plough Inn, Peterchurch, 1930.

Wheelwright Pikes Ephraim turning a cartwheel hub – probably from a block of elm wood.

Wheelwrights Chip Dawe and Pikes Ephraim making a cartwheel

 

Wheelwrights Pikes Ephraim and Chip Dawe in their Dorstone workshop using a hand-powered lathe

Observations:

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