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- Craft and Design Show - RHS Hyde Hall, Essex - 1-4 May 2026
- Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey 12-14 June 2026
- Craft Festival Wales - Cardigan - 11-13 September 2026
- EAIA Conference
- Harvest Weekend - Chiltern Open Air Museum - 26-27 September 2026
- Heritage Crafts Weekend - Chiltern Open Air Museum - 25-26 July 2026
- Heritage Crafts Weekend - Cutty Sark, Greenwich - 16-17 May 2026
- Heritage Crafts: Charcoal Burn - Weald & Downland Living Museum - 29-31 August 2026
- Kent Downs Wood Fair - Sittingbourne - 11-12 July 2026
- Living Crafts Festival Hatfield 7-10 May 2026
- Made by Hand - Heritage Crafts & Skills - Weald & Downland Living Museum - 26-27 Sept 2026
- Meet the Bodgers - Avoncroft Museum, Bromsgrove - 9-10 May 2026
- Nothing Happening?
- Steam at Work - Tilford - 22-23 August 2026
- Strumpshaw Tree Fair - Norfolk - 11-12 July 2026
- Surrey Hills Spring Fair - Tilford - 11-12 April 2026
- The Bentley Wood Fair - East Sussex - 18-20 September 2026
- The Oak Fair - Dorset - 29-30 August 2026
- The Wonder of Wood Fair - Cambridge - 12 - 13 September 2026
- Vintage Hand Tool Extravaganza - Lincolnshire - 11 April 2026
- West's Wood Fair - East Dean - 19-21 June 2026
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- 2024 AGM Papers
- 2025 Heritage Grants
- Academy of Armory by Randle Holme
- Chance to join a conference in USA
- Deadline for 2026 Heritage Award Applications
- Events 2025
- Here at last - The Richard Filmer Archive
- Important - Reduced Membership Fees
- Merry Christmas
- More TATHS Newsletters available
- Natural 19th & Early 20th Century Sharpening Stones and Hones - Available again in shop
- New Book in Member's Publications
- Purchasing by debit or credit cards
- Request from Vernacular Architecture Group
- Richard Filmer Archive
- Spring 2023 Journal and Newsletter
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Older Queries
- A Belzer Screwdriver
- 18th century British button pad stock braces
- A "coat-hanger like" balance
- A "Part" Plane
- A brass-wheeled hand tool
- A Button Hole Cutter?
- A Chainsaw adjuster?
- A coach router?
- A Coffin Smoother
- A Decorated Stone Weight
- A Depth Gauge?
- A Hammer
- A Mask
- A mystery folding ruler scale
- A real Mystery Tool
- A referral from the Science Museum
- A Strange Plane
- A Train Saw?
- A wooden cone and an iron tool
- A wooden What'sit from Brent Museum
- An 18th Century Hand Saw?
- An Early Bristol Plane Maker?
- An Equine tool?
- An interesting hand tool
- An Unknown Tool
- An Unusual Drawknife
- An unusual tool
- Another Interesting Plane Maker's Stamp
- Another mystery tool
- Another strange tool
- Any thoughts anyone ? it looks engineering to me
- Asprey's case
- Baird Photographic Tools
- Blacksmith's tool?
- Brass swiveller
- Buried in an allotment
- Burnishers?
- Candle trade mark
- Circle cutter?
- Dating a plane
- Do we have Bauscheraube in the UK?
- Dutch planes with John Green Irons
- Early Edward Elwell Axe Head number mystery
- Edgell, maker of railway curves
- Febson Indicator
- Flather bits
- Foundling Museum Research
- George Hall Saw
- Gun Stock Tools?
- Hooked pliers
- Is this a floor board cramp?
- Mahr Micrometer unusual markings
- Measuring rods used in Medieval architecture
- Metal hook
- Newport Transporter Bridge - some unusual wood
- Nick White's Mystery Tool
- Not a plumb bob?
- Not a trowel
- Odd chisel
- Old millstone?
- Old taps and dies
- Palm Guards?
- Possible Chippendale Plane?
- Ratchet brace
- Some scales from Gunton Hall Water Mill
- Steel Chisels?
- Stone found on the Thames foreshore
- Tardrew & Sons Bideford
- That elusive WB mark again
- The Cutwell Saw?
- The Great Amberley 'Toast Rack'
- The Roller Coverer's Chisel
- Two mystery objects for the price of one
- Two old tools - Wheelwrighting?
- Unidentified Spokeshave
- W Jasper mark
- What is a Twyvete?
- What is the tool and What is the Trade?
- What is this hammer used for?
- Why doesn't my tool chest take standard length planes?
- Willett's Tool
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Other Societies Periodicals
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PastEvents
- 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND AGM at The Holiday Inn, Ipswich Friday 31st March to Sunday 2nd April 2023
- Gunton Park Sawmill - Open days 2023
- 7th Vintage Hand Tool Extravaganza
- Classic Hand Tools Woodworking Event
- Farm Machinery Preservation Society Crank Up Day
- Standsted Park Garden Show 11-13th June 2021
- Strumpshaw Tree Fair 2023
- Strumpshaw Wood Fair 14th and 15th August 2021
- TATHS ANNUAL CONFERENCE & AGM 2020 Thursday 9th – Sunday 12th September 2020
- The Oak Fair 2023
- THE OAK FAIR 28th - 29th AUGUST 2021
- The Wonder of Wood Fair 2024
- Weird and Wonderful Wood Show 2024
- Weird and Wonderful Wood Show 2025
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Public Downloads
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PublicShop
- 1787 Directory of Sheffield
- Catalogues on disk CD No 2
- Catalogues on disk CD No 4
- Directory of American Toolmakers
- Gimlet Patterns and Manufacture
- Mr. Marquois's Most Useful Pair of Scales
- The Care of Saws
- The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton
- Tools & Trades 25th Anniversary Collection
- Yarns from the Ropeworks
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Queries
- A CQR Chest: dealer or maker?
- A Croxford Lever
- A Curious and Illogical Badger.....
- A delicate pair of pincers
- a Heliograph?
- A Littlewood Axe
- A metre long mystery tool
- A mystery brass object
- A mystery grabber?
- A new exhibit at Usk Rural Life Museum
- A Rivet Gun?
- A Savage Looking Tool.............
- A Tool Quiz Mystery
- A Watsit from Australia
- An early multitool?
- An interesting device
- An LLN Bull Nose Plane
- An unknown expanding tool
- An unusual European Smoothing Plane
- An Unusual WF Stanley Rule
- Another Watsit
- Droppa Fence Tool
- Engineer's Adjustable Screw Plate
- Facebook Queries
- Footprint 222 Kamel tin snips
- Found in a Cape Town Market
- Handrail Planes
- How do you pack screws?
- Is it a cramp or vice or something else?
- Its a morticer Jim, but not as we know it...
- John Rogers Planes
- Lots of little hammers
- Mystery Hammer
- Mystery machine
- Mystery Military Tool
- Mystery Telephone Tool?
- Mystery tool from Mission Impossible?
- Niagara grinder query
- No Idea at all
- Norris plane Ebonising
- Parallel Action Pliers
- Possible Farm Tool
- Railway stoking shovels
- Rusty watsits
- Some interesting tools from Abergavenny
- Some very heavy scissors
- Spiked Helmet Trademark?
- Strange Trade Marks
- Three - Quarter Hollows: a medieval mystery
- Unknown curved tools....
- Unknown wrench maker
- Unnamed, All brass, Slide Rule
- We know what it does but who made it and when?
- Wotsits – the world is a smaller place now
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Resources
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Society
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T&TArticles
- A response to "Heel Tools - an experiment with old methods"
- Accuracy and Experiment - Examples from Salisbury Cathedral
- An early Cabinet Maker's smoothing plane from the City of London
- An unknown Saw maker
- Another Tool Chest with an interesting front panel
- Another Turn of the Wood Screw
- Digging Bath Stone with Saws
- Four Minor Bath Plane Makers
- Heel Tools - an experiment with old methods
- Identifying trade tools: A beginner's guide
- Jane Rees on collecting
- Ken Hawley - Tool Collector
- Mortising Axe or Billhook
- Saws in World War I
- Sumitsubo 墨壷
- Ted Cole Obituary
- The Art of the Scythe
- The Carpenter's Rule
- The Cock-Bead Fillister - an 18th Century Tool Merchant's Marketing Ploy?
- The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools Revisited
- The origin of EC Atkins - a letter from Ron Geesin
- The Puzzle of the Short Moulding Plane
- When was a sawmaker not a sawmaker?
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T&TNotes
- Conservation Notes Introduction
- MN 01.01 Reviver
- MN 02.01 Ageing wood
- MN 03.01 Woods used in tool making
- MN 04.01 Retaining surface finish
- MN 05.01 Rust
- MN 05.02 Deox gel
- MN 05.05 Rust - Electrolysis
- MN 06.01 Cleaning Brass
- RN03 List of Old Tool dealers etc
- RN06 Disposal of collections (including advice for owners of collections)
- TN.01.01 Some thoughts about preserving wooden planes
- TN.01.02 Case study - restoration of a barn-find moulding plane
- TN.03.01 Woodcarving Chisels
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