Village Sign, Manuden, Essex, UK
Posted by: 
bill&ben
N 51° 54.890 E 000° 10.055
31U E 305203 N 5755356
A round moulded polyurethane sign on the grass verge at the entrance to the village.
Waymark Code: WMC3MF
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/21/2011
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The image on the sign is of a man
cutting leather. The leather trade was carried on in Manuden
from the 1500s to about 1870.
There is a plaque on the sign which reads
Manuden Leather Worker
The man above is
using a “round” or
half
moon knife to cut leather.
From the fifteenth
century to the 1870s
Manuden
leatherworkers processed sheepskins
to
make bellpulls, gloves and
other
leather goods.