Pictorial Guide to Birmingham
Details:
- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1859
- Pages 198pp; illus
- Publisher Josiah Allen & Son
- Place Published Birmingham
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Guide for visitors to the city. Wide ranging but with some coverage of businesses including: Birmingham Church of England Cemetery Co; Birmingham Savings Bank; Soho Manufactory [re Boulton & Watt]; Jennens & Bettridge, manufacturers of papier mâché; R W Winfield & Sons, manufacturers of bedsteads, etc, at Cambridge Works; Collis & Co, goldsmiths, etc; H Messenger, lamp manufacturers; button industry, especially W Elliott & Son; F & C Osler, decorative glass manufacturers; Islington Glass & Alkali Works; Mapplewick & Lowe, makers of stoves, grates, fenders, etc; gunmaking; Messrs Ashford, whip manufacturers; etc