The Sussex Trug: An Investigation into the Production of Trugs

Description

A study of trug making in Sussex, with particular reference to four firms operating in and around the village of Herstmonceux. The first of nine chapters provides a general introduction, followed by a history of the trug, and its inventor Thomas Smith. Further chapters describe the manufacture of trugs, their sale and usage, the craftsmen who made/make them, mechanisation and its influence on the trug industry, and descriptions of four trugging firms ( Greens of Hailsham, R. Reed, R.W. Rich and Sons and Thomas Smith and Sons. Photographs of the premises of R. Reed and Thomas Smith are included, as well as photographs of trug-making tools and manufacturing processes. Chapter Eight relates to a Bexhill trug maker, and the collector's meeting with his great-niece. The final chapter lists the tools of the Sussex trug maker, and includes photographs and line drawings.

Metadata

Identifier fbhpb1xv
IRN 410086
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/050
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/fbhpb1xv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Tuffin, Alison
Date 1971
Size and Medium 34 unbound typed pages; 37 b/w photographs.

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