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Coopers and Coopering
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Coopers and Coopering
Contributors:
By (Author) Ken Kilby
Series:
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Shire Publications
Publication Date:
1st October 2004
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
674.82
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
64
Dimensions:
Width 149mm, Height 210mm
Weight:
157g
Description
This book seeks to preserve the memory of the coopers skills, tracing the history of the craft and describing and illustrating how a barrel was made.
Author Bio
Ken Kilby is a Vice-President and founder members of the Tools and Trades History Society. He comes from a family of coopers, his great uncle founding the cooperage of Samuel Kilby & Sons of Banbury, Oxfordshire, in the 1860s. He worked as an apprentice under his father at the old brewery of J. W. Green's in Luton, Bedfordshire until 1967, when he abandoned 'the block' and went into teaching.
