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Tone Vale Young Farmers' Club (Maker)

A length of rope, the ends of which have been whipped with twine. The rope was made by members of the Tone Vale Young Farmers' Club as part of a social development scheme at the Tone Vale hospital. The scheme included a variety of rural crafts used as occupational therapy.

MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – ‘ROPE // CRAFTS Textile rope // ... // Made by Tone Vale Young Farmers' Club members as part of Social Development scheme at above hospital for long-stay psychiatric patients // 2.15m long. // Diameter c 1.5 cm // Whipped ends c. 17.5 cm // ENDS WHIPPED WITH TWINE // [pencil drawing]’, Letter, R. Tull to MERL, 28 February 1969 – ‘The Tone Vale Young Farmers’ Club is part of the Social Development Scheme at Tone Vale Hospital and the introduction of rural crafts provides Occupational Therapy for the long-stay psychiatric patients. One of the many crafts of interest at the moment is rope making and we have demonstrated this rope-making skill at many of the local shows in Somerset and this has proved extremely popular with the audiences. Any information you could let me have concerning any of these rural crafts would be very much appreciated. I shall be sending you a sample of our rope and also some photographs of our rope-making machine which I hope will be of interest to you, sometime in the future. We have just started besom broom making and ash hurdle making and we are endeavouring to make a start on wattle fencing.’

Norton Fitzwarren

1960-01-01 - 1969-12-31

1960s