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Industrial Grand Tour

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4: The Tanners
' You can ride a bike and you don' know how. That's the position on it. You've either got it or you haven'.'
(HAROLD TREGUNNA, leather finisher) Many people enjoy the beauty, resilience and subtle working properties of natural leather. Fewer people, however, recognise these properties in leather in its raw and unattractive condition.
In a remote village in Cornwall the Croggon brothers maintain a 300-year-old tradition of oak-bark tanning to produce a leather which is completely natural and with unique qualities.
Narrated by Kenneth Hudson
Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE

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Kenneth Hudson
Producer:
Ray Sutcliffe
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