Crafted in Britain: The Survival of Britain's Traditional Industries

Anthony Burton · Rob Scott

feb 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing

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Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still valued.

Their world is recreated in Rob Scott's dramatic photographs, while the processes and history of the different industries is described in the accompanying text by Anthony Burton. They have travelled the country from the Spey valley in Scotland, where they recorded the workers in a traditional distillery and a cooperage, to Cornwall and the studio of a specialist pub sign painter. They have gone underground with a Free Miner of the Forest of Dean and seen molten metal being poured to create majestic church bells.

The book delights in the variety and individuality of the different industries. For both author and photographer it has been a revelation to see some of these processes at work: to watch a craftsman take a strip of silver and work it by hand into a spoon, or to find clocks being made in a workshop that looks as if it has scarcely changed for a hundred years. Now readers have the opportunity to share these experiences and delight in the discovery of these magnificent survivors.

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Anthony Burton is a regular contributor to Countryfile Magazine, and has written various books on Britain's industrial heritage, including Remains of a Revolution for Penguin and The National Trust Guide to Our Industrial Past (Mitchell Beazley), as well as three of the official National Trail guides. He has written and presented for the BBC, acted as historical adviser for the Discovery series Industrial Revelations and On the Rails, and has appeared as an expert on Coast.

Rob Scott has worked as a photojournalist and editorial photographer all over the world for 30 years. His work regularly appears in Countryfile Magazine, BBC Music Magazine and beyond that all over the place (on album covers for the Arctic Monkeys, Feeder, The Clash etc, and taking portraits of other celebrities around the world). In recent years he's specialized in documenting Britain's surviving traditional industries.