Detail View: The David Morgan Rees Collection: Wheelwright

Wheelwright

Generations of knowledge and custom evolved a basic design for wagons and carts that worked with simplicity and was capable of continual repair and renewal as parts wore out. In the larger villages farm carts and wagons were built by teams of craftsmen, but in many of the small Yorkshire villages it was more likely to be the village carpenter who would build the body and make the wheels himself. Cyril Sissons with a demonstration model to show how a wagon wheel is constructed with a central 'naff' or hub of elm, spokes of oak and felloes of ash.

1970's

20th century

Yorkshire

ENGLAND, UK

photograph - b/w

REES, David Morgan

Special Collection, Sheffield Hallam University

10-1194

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Special Collection, Sheffield Hallam University

The text describing the photographs has been taken from the book "Yorkshire craftsmen at work" by David Morgan Rees, re-published by Sheffield Hallam University Press (1981) ISBN 0863398103. Originally published by Dalesman Books in 1981.

REES, David Morgan

Photographer; Author.

Male.

British.

Handicraft -- England -- Yorkshire -- Photographs