Tools and Trades History Society
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About TATHS
The Tools and Trades History Society is an educational charity, whose aim is to further the knowledge and understanding of hand tools and the trades in which they were used.
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It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Brian Read died of the coronavirus on Easter Sunday. Our thoughts are with his wife Bernice and his family at this difficult time.
Brian was a founder member of TATHS and was one of our Vice Presidents. He edited the Newsletter for many years, as well as serving on the Committee and he researched and co-authored our publication on "Natural Sharpening Stones and Hones". Brian brought a breadth of interests to TATHS which was stimulating and occasionally challenging. He was a good friend to many of us and we shall miss him very much.
The family have provided a link to Brian's funeral notice below:
https://funeral-notices.co.uk/East+Midlands-Derbyshire-Derby/death-notices/notice/read/4833713
It is always good to hear news from tool societies in other parts of the world and the regular edition of "Benchmark" from the Hand Tool Preservation Society of Western Australia is always worth a read. This month's edition has a fascinating article by Robin Hicks on making a schooner mast. Go look!
Worth a further look at the December edition of Benchmark, the journal of the Hand Tool Preservation Society Of Western Australia. This reports finding a European Cooper's Croze, dated to 1795 by the decorations. Wow!
Then there are the gold plated Locking Pliers celebrating 70 years of the Peterson Manufacuring Company............
This is an extremely comprehensive and well researched book and we think it would be well worth putting onto the website to advertise to TATHS members.
The book charts the development of iron screws as fixing devices from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century.
4th edition of British Planemakers
The long awaited 4th edition of British Planemakers is due for release on 1 February 2020.