The Hand-Made Nail Industry of Birmingham and the Midlands
Description
A dissertation focussing on the nail making industry of Birmingham and the Midlands. Its five chapters cover the early history of the industry (mineral deposits and early iron industry, slitting mills), nail manufacture (nail making process, types of nail, machinery), the arrangement of the industry (the organisation of the nailing industry and its social aspect, nailers' houses and workshops), abuses of the industry (nailers, nail masters and fagging, strikes and wages), the distribution of the industry (places of manufacture, table of placenames and sources of information, nailing in Northfield). Photographs of nailers' cottages, workshops and work tools are included, with also magazine and newspaper cuttings, sketches, correspondence and the edited transcript of an interview between the collector and Fred Hobbis.
Metadata
| Identifier | xzkx3yv1 |
| IRN | 410053 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/017 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xzkx3yv1 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Penny, E John |
| Date | 1964 |
| Size and Medium | ii, 75 unbound typed leaves; 11 b/w photographs; 1 O.S. map. |