Craft Collection (page 2)

A Special SHAEF issued 24th March 1945 says "The Allied Forces are today crossing
A Special SHAEF issued 24th March 1945 says " The Allied Forces are today crossing the Rhine River on a wide front, north of the Ruhr

Allied soldiers and equipment despite Japanese flre, pour from on American LST (landing ship-tank) vessel on to the beach at Nono Atoll in the Treasury Islands of the Central Solomons in the daylight

10 articles made from one mans shirt. Picture taken 6th December 1943

Members of the Barnet National Fire Service. In their off duty times, they have been making fittings for RAF rocket bombs. Picture taken 31st May 1944

British troops fighting their way south eastward between the Ms and the Rhine rivers of Germany, entered the important German centre of Weeze on March 2nd and after clearing the town

Badge worn by airmen of the Air / Sea Rescue Service. The colours are white
Badge worn by airmen of the Air/Sea Rescue Service. The colours are white against a blue background. 22nd February 1943

World War Two - combined operations exercises. Picture shows support craft moving into position to make smoke screen for landing craft during exercises. Location unknown, though Great Britain

Glass horticulture. New glass floral decorations for bridal wreaths, table decorations, hat trimmings, gowns etc. which are now fashionable

Supplies and reinforcements for the troops in Normandy. L. C
Supplies and reinforcements for the troops in Normandy. L.C.Ts leave for the shore. Circa June 1944

Crab pot making at Penberth, Sharpening willows ready for the frame. Cornwall. 1923

Crabpot making at Penberth, Finishing off a crab pot. Cornwall. 1923

Crabpot making at Penberth, Shaping a crab pot. Cornwall. 1923

Crab pot making at Penberth, Bending willows into shape for the Crabpots. Cornwall. 1923

The crab pot industry at Penberth, Cornwall. Bringing home the willows. 1923

Potter Bridget Appleby seen here in here Crawford Street, Marylebone, London studio, putting the finishing touches on a Harold Wilson commemoration mug to mark the resignation of the Prime Minister

A factory scene in 1935 showing women and their Singer sowing machines. Exact area where this picture was taken is unknown. But it is taken in the United Kingdom. Picture taken 21st July 1935

Craft workshops at the University Settlement, Bristol in the 1950s. Circa 1955

Millstone making, before cutting the emery stone the line is marked with a feather dipped in dye, 1st January 1944

Ling Liu who is an expert in the art of Chinese Paper Cuts 11th January 1996

Children holing their entries for a Christmas card competition. Teesside, December 1985

Bonny bonnets - youngsters at West Slaithwaite School line up to show off their Easter creations. The school held its annual parade and Easter bonnet competition which was judged by Mrs Susan Clegg

Miss Marie Fielding, the only woman French Polisher on the Isle of Man. She is only 22 years old and has been doing it for 9 years. Isle of Man, 7th May 1954

17 year old girl and father rethatch a village. Quite a big job for 17 year old Joyce Stamford and her father Corrie Stamford is the thatching of 50 cottages, in and around Barley

Street Merchant. 3rd January 1944

Wig making. Putting curls in a full dress Judicial dress. 1946 P009958

Family woodcarvers of saints and angels. The studio in the shadow of St. Pauls Cathedral dome, London. One of the sons at work on an angel. 17th March 1935

Horseshoe Smithy at Penshurst, Kent. 2nd May 1952

Throwing a pot in traditional fashion... professional potter Mr Shaun Pickard demonstrates his skills to pupils at Meltham Junior, Infant and Nursery School

Angela Collins with her face painted like a butterfly enjoys doing some painting. Fun week organised by St Hildas Church, Redcar, 10th August 1994

St Cuthberts Church, Kirkleatham, restoration work to the roof, which was made possible by a grant from Teesside Council of £ 2750, 29th September 1972

Stained glass window at Christ Church, Great Ayton, depicting groups of workers from various trades and professions through the ages

Richard Wadding seen here at work at the cottage cooperage at Killinick in County Wexford. The business consists of making barrels, churns, butter keelers and wooden buckets out of old barrels

Ernest Stamford from Sheffield puts the finishing touches to one of his hand made fishing rods. 27th October 1967. watscan - - 27/04/2010

Ernest Stamford from Sheffield displays one of his hand made fishing weights. 27th October 1967. watscan - - 27/04/2010

Mr J Colcough, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, hand painting one of the china plates using a medium of turpentine, fat oil and aniseed. 1946

Seventeen year old Len Mills, apprenticed turner of teapots and teapot lids at a Stoke On Trent pottery, produces between 400 and 500 teapots in and eight and a half hour day

A potter at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, creates a vase on his spinning wheel, using his fingers to shape the article from the inside as well as out. 1946

Mr Joseph Moss, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, operating the profile for platemaking. 1946

Workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, set plates in "saggars"
Workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, set plates in " saggars" containing alumina. The saggars are then sealed before being put into the oven. 1946

MR Gs Oakden, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, marking imperfections on bowls which have just been fired, to be removed with a carborundum stone. 1946

A worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, pictured in the mill, where glaze made of borax, lead, stone, whitening and sand and fritted together in a " frit kiln

Olwyn Cotgreave, aged 20, tracing in platinum the outline of the flower design on a dessert plate, one piece in the huge 161 piece dinner set ordered by the King and Queen of England for M

A worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, dips a newly created article into a vat of glaze. 1946

A team of painters at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, fill in the coloured portions of the design applied to the china plates. 1946

Restoring the blitzed stained glass window of Canterbury Cathedral is Mr Caldwell aged 92 still working as a stained glass artist in the trade in which he started at the age of 16 in Canterbury

Wheelwright William Punday aged 73 seen here working with a circular saw February 1935

Teacher Training College Intent on her potters wheel, 18 year old Sandra Shaw, who comes from Liverpool, is shaping more than the clay beneath her hands

One of the last rocking horse craftsmen in Britain, Steve Winder from Ossett, Yorkshire. Using an axe and chisels he is able to start shaping a horses head in a few minutes

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