High Peak MP Tom Levitt has pledged his support for a local craftsman to help prevent his skills being lost forever. Mike Turnock, from Whaley Bridge, is the last practising sieve maker in the country and fears that when he retires it’ll be the end of a centuries-old tradition of fashioning quality sieves from wood and wire.
Mr Levitt visited Mr Turnock in his workshop (last Thursday, 28 May) to see for himself how the skilled craftsman creates sieves and riddles for all sorts of purposes – from sifting flour for cooking to separating different sized grains of metals used in industry, or for sieving glazes used in the pottery trade. His customers include individual cooks and gardeners, as well as foundries and others he keeps supplied with regular bulk orders.
The MP has already raised the matter with the Culture Minister and is planning to apply for an Adjournment Debate before Parliament rises for the summer.
For more information, go to www.tomlevitt.org.uk/mp-to-take-up-case-of-disappearing-sieve-maker-30-may-2009.
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