Workers Les Onley right and Jimmy trimming loose flesh of hides at the West Australian Tanners and Fellmongers factory, Fremantle, Western Australia, 1978 [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: West Australian Tanners and Fellmongers factory, Fremantle, Western Australia, 1978.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Reproduction of: 1 negative : b&w.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Purchased from the photographer, 2010. Photograph shows area of the tannery known as the Lime Yard. The raw hides would spend 48 hours in the drums in the Lime Yard. These drums were approximately 80 years old and were built at the tannery. The hides have been removed from the drums and are being prepared to go into a fleshing machine which was a large rotating cylinder, about 25 metres long with spiral blades. These blades flayed the loose flesh and fat off the hides. The workers are trimming the loose flesh of the hides. The tannery specialised in making sole leather for shoes and boots supplying many Australian manufacturers including RM Williams when he was hand making boots himself...--Information supplied by photographer