Tenter Field, Pig Hill Wood

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Pighill Wood, Huddersfield, UK (53°39′8″N, 1°51′39″W)

This is a glossy landscape black and white image of a tenter field at Pig Hill Wood, Huddersfield. It shows three stone posts rising vertically from the ground, adjacent to some trees which slope down a bank to a dry stone wall and fields beyond. This is part of a set of three images of slightly different brightness, possibly due to the printing method to achieve the correct exposure for the image. The three prints are: H.2024.4.384 .385 and .386. It was taken by photographer Ian Beesley and features in his book 'Through The Mill' as image 14 with the caption: "Tenterfield, Pig Hill Wood, near Huddersfield. For many centuries woven cloth was dried in the open air by means of stretching it on a tenter seam or tenter hooks (hence the phrase 'to be on tenterhooks'). Here are possibly the last surviving hooks fixed to the weaver's cottage and stretched to these tenter posts at the end of the cottage garden (three in all)."

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Ian Beesley

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H.2024.4.384