Monthly Archives: January, 2017
Langford Tanneries – a History of a Local Industry
With the death of Mr ‘Tacker’ Morris, the hamlet of Lower Langford lost its final connection to an activity that had been important to it for several centuries: shoemaking. Being situated in the centre of a cattle-rearing area, there was ready access to the most important raw material: hides for leather. And, stretched out along […]
