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Smelting Mill: Langthwaite
1966
Copy of photograph of the octagonal smelting mill at Langthwaite taken in 1910, with the great roof still partially intact. The mill was built for the Arkengarthdale lead mines around 1700. Mounted on...
Smelting Mill: Langthwaite
1966
Copy of a photograph of the interior of the octagonal smelting mill at Langthwaite taken in 1910. Massive roof timbers visible. Mr. Waller, the Arkengarthdale estate joiner, in foreground. The mill wa...
Chainmakers' Forges
Langhorne, Richard
1973
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....
Chainmakers' Forge
Langhorne, Richard
1973
View of chainmaker working a forge 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 th...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1960-1961
Oscar Croot and Mrs. Oscar Croot, recorded in Riseley in 1960; Mr. Croot describes making leaded windows - transporting and fitting, geographical area covered, costs and estimates of work; describes t...
Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire
Shaw, David H
1956
Ted Brown, recorded in the farm of John Costin at Eaton Bray [the voice of Mr. Costin's Housekeeper is also heard]; talks about the work of a blacksmith; the cost and composition of horseshoes; mendin...
Sound Recordings, Warwickshire
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
July 1966
[Collector announcement]; Arthur Humphries, recorded in Lighthorne on the 28 July 1966[Swiss male also present asks some questions, possibly Eduard Kolb, or Dieter Bothe]; Mr. Humphries talks about wo...