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Richard Filmer
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The late Richard Filmer was a TATHS Vice President and a keen photographer of crafts and hand tool trades. During his travels around the world, Richard amassed a collection of around 6000 photographs.
The images have been arranged into categories of trades or subjects. Those available now are:
Basket making; Brush making; Carts; Carving; Coaches; Coopering; Food Preparation; Musical; Rake making; Rustic crafts; Shavehorses; Smithing; Stone and Clay working; Textiles; Timber Working; Tinsmithing; Wheelwrighting; Wooden Artifacts and Woodturning. There is also a Miscellaneous section containing mainly portraits and landscapes.