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The coble used to be the mainstay of the inshore fishing industry off Yorkshire's north-east coast. A coble is built from experience, from knowing exactly what the fisherman wants. There is no such thing as a set of plans. A coble is clinker-built. This means the external planks overlap each other and are fastened together with clinched copper nails.
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Billy Clarkson of Whitby looking at the shape and form of a coble during construction. The boat's design makes for maximum seaworthiness.
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Trevor Ellis carved and painted a series of ship's figureheads from pine in the small Coverdale village of Horsehouses. He supplied these to yaht clubs throughout Britain.
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Figure heads have been in use on ships since pre-Christian times. Here Trevor Ellis shapes a new figurehead.
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Yorkshire dales villages have a solidarity and visual unity which has been dictated by the materials available locally. Stone masons were content to repeat their simple methods in traditional materials because they knew they were good and proof against the savagery of the Northern elements. Bob Guy of the Reeth builders, Blenkiron & Co. using a slater's hammer to cut a stone roof slate to size.
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The old method of fixing roof slates was with wood pegs. Today alloy nails are used.
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Before stone or slate or tile, thatch was the universal roof covering throughout Yorkshire. Sometimes on an old cottage you may see the ghostly traces of the former type of roof. The pitch of a thatched roof has to be much steeper to allow the rain to flow off quickly. A 'spit' of hazel secures the 'yealmes' of straw and iron bodkins stitch the straw to the frame of the roof with twine.
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Seth Eccles of Helmsley working with thatch in the traditional way.
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