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Bird's watchmaker's and jeweller's shop, Brownhills

The exterior of F.R. Bird's watchmaker's and jeweller's shop at 117 High Street, Brownhills, near Walsall. Established in 1921 the shop closed in 1962.

Biscuit barrel

Biscuit barrel by Staffordshire Potteries. Staffordshire Potteries were formed in 1950 out of the Keele Street Pottery Group. They made mugs, kitchen and dinner ware at their factory on the former Meir ...

Biscuit Brush.

Biscuit brush with a wooden handle and long bristles. Used in pottery making to brush biscuit holloware in preparation for dipping. The tool was used at Used at Barker Brothers, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. It ...

Biscuit Brush.

Biscuit brush with a wooden handle and long bristles. Used in pottery making to brush biscuit holloware in preparation for dipping. The tool was taken from the Ascot Works, Clough Street, Hanley. It ...

Biscuit Placing, Shelley’s pottery, Longton

Pottery factory interior depicting a man bedding plates using a setter prior to placing in a saggar and firing. The setter was a piece of kiln furniture that provided more support than bedding the ...

'Bizarre' bowl

Clarice Cliff 1889-1972. Bowl. 1978.P.39. 1928-1930. Over glaze painted earthenware. D : 210 mm, H : 94mm. Earthenware bowl. Decorated with over glaze painted geometric pattern. This was one of ...

Black Eagle Brewery, Burton-on-Trent

The brewery, owned by Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. was situated just off Station Bridge, bordering Derby Street.

Black Gang men, United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes

There were six Black Gang men who worked producing lamp black by burning creosote in three sets of burning chambers at the United Lamp Black Works, Four Ashes. They were assisted by four men who transported ...

Blackladies Priory, Brewood

This hand-drawn map, dating from the early 18th century, shows the site of the dissolved priory of Blackladies, near Brewood. The original Benedictine priory was founded circa 1150 and dissolved in 1538; ...

Blacksmith at work, Mayfield

Mr Charles Woodward, Blacksmith at Mayfield near Ashbourne, filing a horse's hoof outside his smithy at 22 Wallash, Mayfield. The smithy belonged to the Woodward family from 1805 and worked until Charles ...

Blacksmith, Hollinsclough

Joe Bradbury, blacksmith at Hollinsclough, shoeing a horse. A second man is holding the horse's head and a boy stands in the doorway.

Blacksmith, Stone,

Mr Salmon, blacksmith at Stonefield Forge.

Blacksmiths at Siemens Bros. factory, Stafford

Blacksmiths at the Smithy at Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Stafford in about 1905. Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich ...

Blacksmiths Workshop, Bagnall's Engineering Works, Stafford,

W.G. Bagnall Ltd. was established in 1870 in Castle Street. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. Eventually ...

Blacksmith's workshop, Mayfield

This smithy at 22 Wallash, Mayfield belonged to the Woodward family from 1805 and worked until Charles Woodward retired in 1965. Many of these tools were made by Mr Woodward and his father. It was collected ...

Blast furnace demolition at Shelton Bar steelworks

This picture shows the blast furnaces at Shelton Bar Steelworks in Stoke-on-Trent being demolished. Steel production at Shelton Bar ended in 1978 but the processing of existing steel continued in the ...

Blast Furnace workers, Apedale, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Abraham Parker put the first furnace at Apedale into blast in 1789. The works passed through a number of owners until 1890 when the Midland Coal, Coke and Iron Company was formed and took the ironworks ...

Blast furnaces, Congreaves Iron Works, Cradley Heath

Blast furnaces at Congreaves Iron Works, Congreaves Road, Cradley Heath. The British Iron Company set up its ironworks at Cradley Heath in 1825. By 1860 there were six blast furnaces on the site and ...