Chainmakers' Forge: Making a Link

Description

Chainmaker making a link at Noah Bloomer & Sons chainmakers, Cradley Heath, Sandwell (West Midlands). The chainmaker is bending a new link prior to forging it closed with the Tommy (forge hammer) using a pair of tongs, or benders. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1403. With ms. note. Originally held in Photo File: Chainmaking

Metadata

Identifier j3fcffy6
IRN 412342
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/P1402
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/j3fcffy6
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Chain Making: Photocards
Creator(s) Langhorne, Richard
Date 1973
Size and Medium 1 mounted photographic print.

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