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PHOTO GALLERY: TOOLS OF THE TRADE
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"I've just started at Garretts as a Shop boy but I'm going to do an apprenticeship and be a blacksmith like my father! Can you spot the tools he uses?"

Thomas Whiting

Thomas Whiting Aged13
heart and square trowel and spoon tools gauge and dividers pattern
stakes tally and tin drawing tools

The other objects would have been used by brass moulders, clerks, pattern makers, designers and tool makers/metal workers but who would have used what?

Test your knowledge of what the different tools are used for with our Quiz!