Daily Herald Photograph: Making drums for the army

Daily Herald Photograph: Making drums for the army Daily Herald Photograph: Making drums for the army

Daily Herald Photograph: Making drums for the army
Science Museum Group
© TopFoto/SMG Images

Daily Herald Photograph: Making drums for the army
Science Museum Group
© TopFoto/SMG Images

One photograph of E. Ford, a drum maker, sanding the wood for a drum frame. Caption on back reads: ' Soldier Town has naturally its own craftsmen and here is one of them, Mr. E. Ford, who has worked as a percussion instrument maker for 46 years at the firm of Potter and Co. He has made drums for a host of regiments that have passed through Soldier Town, including the famous Silver Drums of the South Wales Borderers'.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/52568
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print