Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1413
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/412353
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 hand hammering the new chain link after its first bending with tongs. It will be hammered into its almost complete state before being returned to the forge. A chain hangs in the background. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1414. With ms. note.
Originally held in Photo File: Chainmaking
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