An historic photograph showing British pewter workers beating plates into shape on actual tree trunks. Pewter is one of the UK’s oldest manufacturing industries in continuous production. The craft was brought to Britain by the Romans in the second century AD and was was introduced to Sheffield in 1769 by James Vickers who devised an alloy that could imitate silver plate. By the 1940s the pewter industry was employing hundreds of local people and

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Size: 4828px × 5315px
Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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