Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1410
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/412350
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Chainmaker making a link at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands). The chainmaker is bending a red-hot iron bar with benders (tongs) around the hook at the end of the anvil. The bar will be bent and hammered almost into a complete link before being returned to the forge to be reheated. Whilst this is done, another bar is being heated on the forge (just visible in background) so that a continuous process can be maintained. Thus, when the almost-completed link is returned to the forge, a new red-hot iron bar will be ready for bending and forging. A chain hangs in the background. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note.
Originally held in Photo File: Chainmaking
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