THE VILLAGE CARPENTER

By Walter Rose

Synopsis

Rose writes of village carpentry as it was practised in Buckinghamshire by his family and their men in Victorian times. These reminiscences touch upon such things as mill repairs, farm and house carpentry, timber buying, work in the saw yard, and making field gates, haymaking tools and coffins.

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Narrator Bob Rollett
Length 5hrs
Catalogue No. 10593
Publisher Stobart Davies; 2009