peejaybee1: Fred Biggs splicing 8 strands
peejaybee1: Cutting the fibres down to 1 metre
peejaybee1: Cock Loft at Ropery
peejaybee1: 65Kg pads of sisal
peejaybee1: Sisal going from pads on Bell Frame
peejaybee1: Ropery Big side
peejaybee1: Ropery big side closing machine
peejaybee1: Ropery Chatham AD1796
peejaybee1: Register plates with red marker yarn for sisal
peejaybee1: Chatham Ropery Reeved up through register plates
peejaybee1: Polyprop
peejaybee1: John with Manila fibres
peejaybee1: Jaquard reeved up
peejaybee1: Small closing machine, Chatham
peejaybee1: Spinner showing cops and flyers
peejaybee1: Sisal showing red marker yarn
peejaybee1: Scutcher number 1 with sisal
peejaybee1: Register Plate and Forcing tube
peejaybee1: Polypropylene strands on trestles
peejaybee1: Fred getting on with it
peejaybee1: Strands on Middle side
peejaybee1: Large bobbins with coir
peejaybee1: Fred Cordier at the small reeler
peejaybee1: wooden bobbins
peejaybee1: Redundant fire alarm, Chatham Dockyard Ropery
peejaybee1: Polyprop ends
peejaybee1: Spreader with polypropylene fibres Dockyard
peejaybee1: Middle side with empty trestles
peejaybee1: Chatham Ropery Cockloft after sweeping
peejaybee1: Trestle on Middle side, Chatham Ropery