Bench Plane Maker - Albert Bock (1965)

Albert Bock, who retired in 1966, was the last wooden bench plane maker at William Marples & Son Ltd in Sheffield. Filmed at William Marples' Hibernia Works, Westfield Terrace, Sheffield the year before he retired. The film is one of a series filmed in the mid-1960s which Ken Hawley inspired. By then he was acutely aware that he was witnessing the disappearance of a wide range of craft skills on which Sheffield's reputation had been built over the two previous centuries. To find out more about the Hawley Collection and to donate, visit our website: https://www.hawleytoolcollection.com/ See also our sister website at https://hawleysheffieldknives.com/