1790s 'Sun & Planet' Engine for Saw Mill in Cadiz, Spain
Fifth page of description of the Engine for Don Fernando de Torres, Cadiz, Spain, January 1791.
Another European engine, this time for Spain. This was one of a handful of engines that Boulton & Watt ...
1790s 'Sun & Planet' Engine for William Tate, London
Cross-Section of the boilers for William Tate’s Engine, London, March 1794.
The 1790s saw a large increase in sales of Boulton & Watt’s rotative engines. They were sold to all types of business, but ...
1790s 'Sun & Planet' Engine for William Tate, London
General Section of 52 Horse 'Sun & Planet' Engine for William Tate, London, March 1794.
The 1790s saw a large increase in sales of Boulton & Watt’s rotative engines. They were sold to all types of ...
1790s 'Sun & Planet' Engine for William Tate, London
Ground Plan of William Tate’s Malt Distillery and Brewery, 1794.
The 1790s saw a large increase in sales of Boulton & Watt’s rotative engines. They were sold to all types of business, but the largest ...
Abraham Follett and Mary Osler
This portrait was taken on the couple's sixtieth wedding anniversary. The studio was H.Whitlock at number 11 on New Street. Follett Osler was 84 and Mary 86.
Abraham (1808-1903) built up the family ...
Advert for Wilmot Breedon from The Despatch
This advert from 1958 sought workers to fill the following positions in the Gas Turbine Production Division: Production Grinders, Detail Fitters and Model Makers, and Toolmakers. The comapny were based ...
Advertisement for Thomas Sanders Ltd., brassfounders, of St Mary Street, LadywoodSanders Ltd
Thomas Sanders Ltd manufactured brass wares for the building and furnishing trades and first turn up at 13 St Mary Street, Ladywood, in the 1870s. As one of the traditional metalworking industries of ...
Article on James Watt's attic
This cutting is included in the Pemberton album held by the Handsworth Historical Society. It gives useful background information on much of the equipment featured in the photographs from that album.
The ...
Atlas Works, Oozells Street
Atlas Works were located on Oozells Street and produced many items for the bedroom including full suites and nursery items. As can be seen here they also produced other more varied items such as the bedrest ...
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
This page is from the "Book of Beds" which was Atlas Works' Trade Catalogue for their products. This image is of "The Klito" - the inexpensive solid oak bedstead. Carriage is paid if you ordered four ...
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
The plycene mattress "triumphantly tested with half a ton on for 24 hours" from the "Book of Beds" trade catalogue from Atlas Works.
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
From Atlas comes the "Cabinetta shut-up bed". A combination of different woods and with the draw of an "untearable white duck platform".
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
On this page from the Atlas trade catalogue "Book of Beds" we have a child's mattress. It features the "irresistable appeal" of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves who were among several Disney characters ...
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
The impressive large factory of Atlas Works stood on Oozells Street. This illustration is taken from the "Book of Beds" which was their trade catalogue. Some of the pages from their catalogue are in this ...
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
The nursery suite from the "Book of Beds" trade catalogue published in 1954 by the Atlas Works on Oozells Street.
Atlas Works, Oozells Street, Ladywood
The "utilitas Bed table" from the "Book of Beds" trade catalogue for Atlas Works in Ladywood. The bed table is an "incomparable convenience" with a walnut veneer and can be tilted with the touch of a ...
Atlas Works, Oozells Street. Ladywood
The "double decker" two tier bedstead from the "Book of Beds" trade catalogue by Atlas Works of Ladywood.
Barretts ad from Oratory Church magazine
Barrett's were, as the advert says, based on St Vincent Street.