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This image shows a knife grinder at work. Knife grinders travelled the streets offering to sharpen scissors, knives and shears in exchange for a few pence. They were a familiar part of everyday life but had virtually disappeared by the 1950s when knives and scissors had become much cheaper to replace. The elderly knife grinder seen here is operating a treadle with his foot which turns the big wheel which then turns the grindstone. He is wearing a bowler hat and cravat with a long overcoat. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Knife Grinder | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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