Sidebotham's Animal Trap Works

• Lion Traps
• Setting the jaws

 

Sidebotham's Trap Shop rebuilt in the Museum village, exported 90% of all its traps, with 70% of these being destined for Australia to control their rabbit and dingo populations. Africa and India both made huge demands for lion traps, used to aid communities in ridding themselves of dangerous, possibly man-eating, beasts. Opposition to the use of traps began in the 1950s with a final ban in the early 1980s. Wenesfield 's trap trade was inevitably affected and eventually dwindled.

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