Daily Herald Photograph: Making drumheads for the army

One photograph of a man holding up a drum head titled 'Making drumheads for the army'. Caption on back reads: 'As fast as he can turn them out, Mr. Horace Loosley, of New Eltham, S.E., is making drumheads for the army, and many thousands are still required. He is the fifth generation of Loosleys, who have been making vellum (from which drumheads are made) for over two hundred years - and the craft is still carried on without mechanical aid. Vellum is made from English calf - and in this S.E. London factory skins are brought straight in from the abbattoirs and go out as vellum drumheads. Mr. H. Loosley is seen sorting a stock of side-drumheads'.