The Hand-Made Nail Industry of Birmingham and the Midlands

Description

A dissertation focussing on the nail making industry of Birmingham and the Midlands. Its five chapters cover the early history of the industry (mineral deposits and early iron industry, slitting mills), nail manufacture (nail making process, types of nail, machinery), the arrangement of the industry (the organisation of the nailing industry and its social aspect, nailers' houses and workshops), abuses of the industry (nailers, nail masters and fagging, strikes and wages), the distribution of the industry (places of manufacture, table of placenames and sources of information, nailing in Northfield). Photographs of nailers' cottages, workshops and work tools are included, with also magazine and newspaper cuttings, sketches, correspondence and the edited transcript of an interview between the collector and Fred Hobbis.

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The theses and dissertations in this subfonds are available for consultation in the searchroom of Special Collections, University of Leeds, by all bona fide researchers. Conditions relating to access and use have, in a number of cases, been applied to particular items by individual depositors. These are noted within the relevant individual records.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

Sandra Manley's M.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1971), 'The Black Country Dialect in the Cradley Heath Area', includes a list of 112 words from the nail and chain trades (material object names - tools, types of nails and chains, including some etymologies), and transcripts of seven interviews concerning nailshops, tools, nail and chain making processes and work techniques.



2 audiotapes, LAVC/SRE/A236r and LAVC/SRE/A237r. A237r is a duplicate recording of A236r.


A copy of the transcript for tape A236r is held in the Folk Life File, at LAVC/FLF/3/7/17.

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