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A Catalogue of Commerce and Art: Bisset’s Magnificent Guide for Birmingham, 1808
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The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
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Advert for The White Hart Hotel, Birmingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
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Advert for Woolpack Hotel, Family and Commercial Inn, Warwick
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
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Advertisement: Radclyffes and Co, General Printers and Stationers, Birmingham
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Adverts for John Yates & Sons, Birmingham
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Answer to Dardanus’s
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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for Revolutionary Dinner
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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for transport between Birmingham and London
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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Employment Advert
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Bankers and Public Companies in Birmingham
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Benjamin Richardson, Flint Glass Manufacturer, Stourbridge
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Birmingham
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Birmingham
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Birmingham
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Birmingham Fire Office
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C.P. Swinburn & Son, Gun, Rifle and Pistol Manufacturers, Birmingham
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Carpenter and Tildesley, Patent Lock and Curry Comb Manufacturers, Willenhall
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English Hotel Guide
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F & C Osler, Glass Chandlier & Table Glass Manufacturers, Birmingham
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Frontispiece to Bisset’s Magnificent Directory
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Hollis and Sheath, Gun-Makers, Birmingham
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Inland Navigation, An Ode. Humbly Inscribed to The Inhabitants of Birmingham, And Proprietors of the Canal
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Interior of Britannia Railway Carriage and Wagon Works
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John Taylor and Matthew Boulton
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John Yates & Sons, Patent Electro Plate Works, Birmingham
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Joseph Gillott, Metallic Pen Maker, Birmingham
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Labour and Genius: or, the Mill-stream, and the Cascade. A Fable
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Lloyd and Summerfield, Park Glass Works, Birmingham
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Metal Rolling
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Metallic Bedsteads
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Needle Making
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Plan of Birmingham, drawn by J. Sherrif of Oldswinford, late of the Crescent Birmingham
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Prime and Sons, Magneto Plate Works, Birmingham
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R. F. Sturges, Manufacturer of Electro Silver Plated Wares, Birmingham
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Rope Making and Bewdley
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Russian Military Visitors
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Stock & Son, Glass and Lead Merchants, Birmingham
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The First Manufacturing Town: Industry in Birmingham in the mid-19th Century, The New Illustrated Directory, 1858
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The Kidderminster Carpet Industry and the Wider World
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The Manufactures of Birmingham and Sheffield
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Thomas Felton, Glassware Manufacturer, Birmingham
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Tipping and Lawden, Gun & Pistol Manufacturers, Birmingham
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W. Standley, Spur Manufacturer, Walsall
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William Middlemore, Wholesale Sadler, Harness Maker, Currier, Birmingham
The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858
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William Spurrier, Electro Silver Plate Manufacturer, Birmingham
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William Spurrier, Electro Steel Plate Manufacturer, Birmingham
Image from: The New Illustrated Directory Entitled Men and Things of Modern England, 1858 ELECTRO-PLATING The process of… read more »