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The Truggery, Cooper's Croft
Small cottage industry producing traditional Sussex trugs. These are small baskets made from Chestnut and Willow originally used in agriculture now predominantly used in gardening. The workshop is the smaller building to the left. More information can be found at this http://www.truggery.co.uk/
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 12 Feb 2006
0.11 miles
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The A271 west of Herstmonceux
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 30 Apr 2013
0.12 miles
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Cricketing Lane at Junction with Hailsham Road
Image: © PAUL FARMER
Taken: 22 Aug 2017
0.15 miles
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Road Sign Gingers Green
Image: © PAUL FARMER
Taken: 22 Aug 2017
0.16 miles
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The Truggery
'The Truggery' at Coopers Croft, Herstmonceux is a cottage on the outskirts of the village built in the early eighteen hundreds. Some fifty yards along the road there is a workshop dating from about one hundred years earlier. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1530809
Image: © Dave Croker
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
0.16 miles
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The Truggery, Herstmonceux
A local Sussex custom is the craft of truggery which is basically a basket made from willow. Although the end result looks like a basket in shape, the use of the willow gives a more round shape and the great difference is that there is no lattice work involved. See http://www.craftmaker.co.uk/thetruggery/ for more details.
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 28 Nov 2014
0.18 miles
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Gingers Green north from the A271
Image: © Dave Spicer
Taken: 2 Jul 2013
0.18 miles
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The Trug Workshop
This http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1530806 shows the inside and how the trugs are made.
Image: © Dave Croker
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
0.18 miles
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Trug making at the Truggery
In winter, sweet chestnut poles, are coppiced from local ancient woodland, split with a 'froe' (cleaving axe) and left to season for several months.
When ready, each piece is split again, the heartwood removed and the remainder, with the bark left on, is shaved with a drawknife to make a smooth handle and rim. Once steamed to make them pliable enough to bend round a wooden former they are pinned into position to form the supporting framework of the trug.
The body of the trug is made from overlapping willow boards each one individually shaped and shaved with the drawknife and nailed into position.
Image: © Dave Croker
Taken: 8 Oct 2009
0.19 miles
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Cricketing Barn, Cooper's Croft
Looking east from Cricketing Lane.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 12 Feb 2006
0.22 miles