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Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1413

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link

Level: Item

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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