Black and white photographic print of chair bodger Silas Saunders using lathe in workshop at Stoke Row, Oxfordshire

P DX550/2/2

nd [1950s]

75 years old Silas Saunders of Stoke Row Oxfordshire is a master of one of England's oldest crafts 'Chair Bodging'. In the shed beside his home, 'The Crooked Billet' he turns the 17th century foot lathe and shapes chair legs for a local factory.

2 copies

type: PRINT, dimensions: 15.4 x 20.7 cm

English

file

Stoke Row, Oxfordshire, CRAFTS : wood-working, Chair making, Chair part, Lathe

Available

RHC copy neg. NMC 35/21765; scanned image