Walsall Road, Cannock
A view looking along Walsall Road in Cannock showing, from left to right: Jellyman's foundry, the New Inn (painted white and advertising Butler's ales) and a butcher's shop.
Walton on the Hill Smithy
Mr W.M. Giles, the village blacksmith, shoeing a horse at Walton on the Hill Smithy in the early 1970s.
Wednesbury - A Tilt Engine: pen and ink drawing
'A Tilt Engine for forcing of Water done by John Cooper Carpenter in the parsh (sic) of Wednesbury.' A working drawing showing twin buckets filled by a stream of water, which rise and fall alternately ...
Welding a horse rake, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Welding a fitting from an expanding horse rake with an oxy-acetylene torch.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee opened an agricultural training depot. In 1921 ...
Wheelwrights and coachbuilder, Ivy House Farm, Fulford
Ivy House Farm is now derelict.
Photograph donated by the Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Local Historical Society, who retain copyright ownership.
Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Middleport
A J Wilkinson's Royal Staffordshire Pottery alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in Middleport. The works originated as the Mersey Pottery, operated by Anthony Shaw from around 1860, becoming the property ...
William Williams, Furnace Master
William (Bill) Williams was employed in the demolition of the furnaces at Apedale Chesterton.
Abraham Parker put the first furnace at Apedale into blast in 1789. The works passed through a number of ...
Wolverhampton - Ironworks: water colour painting
Showing the ironworks (apparantly out of town), with four furnaces and a high chimney. There is the distant spire of St. George's church and the tower of St. Peter's Church in the background to the left, ...
Wolverhampton - 'Ketley': sepia drawing
'Ketley (sic) near Wolvehampton.' Showing a bridge over a canal and many furnaces beyond, in the dusk and smoke, giving an impression of an iron-working district. 'H. C. A.,' [Henry Curzon Allport].
Workers at Bolton's Copper Works, Froghall
Harry Carr and Jack Beardmore at work at Bolton's Froghall Works. They are putting scrap copper into a furnace.
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 there ...