Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Hope Works, West Bromwich

From Graces Guide

of Colley Street, West Bromwich

1857 Advert: 'TO COLLIERY OWNERS. SAFETY with ECONOMY in using MOZARD'S Patent Improved SAFETY MINING LAMPS, which give a brilliant Light and PREVENT EXPLOSIONS, as the Lamp CANNOT BE OPENED WITHOUT EXTINGUISHING THE LIGHT, and for Twelve Hours’ Burning the cost does not exceed One Penny. Manufactured by H. Hodgkinson, 31, Berwick Street. Soho, Sole Agents for South Staffordshire, J. Colley and Sons, Hope Works, West Bromwich.'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Birmingham Journal - Saturday 15 August 1857