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Sheepskin tanning pioneer dies

14/09/2009

A well known figure in the UK tanning industry, Andrew Tinnion, died, as a result of melanoma, at the end of August.His career in the leather industry started at Columbia, the Morlands Tannery in Bermondsey, London. He organised the re-location of the tannery to Redruth in Cornwall and moved to Somerset when he became the director in charge of two ...

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