Chainmakers' Forges
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Chainmakers' Forges
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1394
Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard
Site Location(s): Subject - Sandwell, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom( 52.5, -1.96667 )
Date(s): 1973
Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412334
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
View of forges at work at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands). Heaps of finished chains in the foreground. The works has only two closed walls, with the rest open. The roof is supported on girders, with the forges positioned around the walls. Each forge has a large unglazed window beside it to provide some cool air. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note.
Originally held in Photo File: Chainmaking
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