{"id":1879,"date":"2023-06-02T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redbrickbuilding.co.uk\/heritage\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2023-08-27T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:16:28","slug":"tanning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redbrickbuilding.co.uk\/heritage\/tanning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The first morning I was overwhelmed with sights and smells of the yard. Workers walked purposely, intent on carrying out various tasks, everybody was sort of busy and immediate.
[Adrian, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The\n
The wet yard, Morlands 1920s
Photo: Morlands Archive<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

No tannery jobs was easy, even up the yard, in the fleshing. I mean it\u2019s all graft, on fleshing machines. Heavy, heavy pelts full of water, you know, with all the wool still on ’em.
You wouldn\u2019t come in there dressed up for work, like, ‘cos it were bloody messy in there.
Up the yard was really messy.
When all the raw skins used to come in – and that\u2019s straight off from the abattoir – they made a hell of a mess.
[Steve and Reg, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stoving was the hardest job in the factory, not only was it shift work, the cabinets used to run at 140 degrees and you had ten frames a section, and you had seven different cabinets, these all had two motors on them blowing the heat in. It was always baking hot there.
[Jim, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were many processes, but eventually they\u2019d get dyed into the big drums, huge big drums, about a thousand skins at a time.
[Steve, Morlands]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Turbomix\n
Turbomix Drum at Baily’s – these could be used for scouring, pickling, tanning and dyeing
Photo: Terry Gulliford<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Baily\u2019s we actually worked inside the stove – you worked inside, you never brought the boards out, you worked in the stove all the time and that was pretty hot and the cabinets, the nailing on was hard work.
[Jim, Baily’s]<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A paddle in the wet yard, Baily’s
Photo: Terry Gulliford<\/sub><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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