Making a Welsh potato basket [outdoors]

SR RIB PH2/2/4

c.1930's

Marjory L. Wight, 1889-1973, photographer, G. Jones

Miss Marjory L. Wight (1889-1973) was a prolific photographer starting in her early school days in Worcester, with a Kodak camera, until her later work with a Rolleiflex. For subject matter she concentrated first on buildings, from the West Country to Yorkshire and East Anglia, but especially in South Wales, the Cotswolds, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. She also recorded in some detail the disappearing crafts and agricultural practices, again mainly in her own district of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Her photographs illustrate many books, including K. S. Woods, Rural Crafts of England (1949), and she submitted work to other publications, such as Farmers Weekly. She wrote books on St. David’s and Pembrokeshire, besides numerous short articles and was also interested in archaeology and botany. Miss Wight lived at Mordiford and later at 14 Overbury Road, Hereford.

basket making

1 photographic print: b&w

type: PRINT, dimensions: 12.8 x 12.5 cm

English

Basket industry, Basketry, Wood products, Wood, Baskets, CRAFTS, Potato industry, G. Jones, Llandysul, Graphic Materials

Available

RHC copy neg. NMC 35/16508