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 red-hot iron bar with benders (tongs) around the hook at the end of the anvil. The bar will be bent and hammered almost into a complete link before being returned to the forge to be reheated. Whilst this is done, another bar is being heated on the forge (just visible in background) so that a continuous process can be maintained. Thus, when the almost-completed link is returned to the forge, a new red-hot iron bar will be ready for bending and forging. A chain hangs in the background. Mounted on Photo File card. With ms. note. Originally held in Photo File: Chainmaking
Metadata
| Identifier | m7p9tbqz |
| IRN | 412350 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1410 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/m7p9tbqz |
| 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. |