Industrial Change in Wolverhampton and District

Further Sources

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Topic Areas

• General
• Coal Mining
• Iron and Steel
• Bicycles
• Enamels
• Lockmaking

General

Wolverhampton Chronicle

Express and Star

Wolverhampton Adnews

Wolverhampton Journal

Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Illustrated - Industries and Manufactuers c. 1900 (L609)

A History of Wolverhampton C Upton 1998 (L9UPT)

Trade directories and Red Books 1770s - 1960s (L91)

Coal Mining

Coal Mines in Staffordshire Local History Source Book No 3 1968 (S622)

Midland Mining Commission First Report 1843 T Tancred, Commissioner (S622)

Black Country Mines 1790-1929 JL Smallshire 1993 (S622)

Baggeridge Colliery1895-1968 H Taylor, Black Country Bugle No 315 June 1998 (S07sr)

The Sinking of Baggeridge Colliery R Newnham, The Blackcountryman Vol 1 No 1 1968 (S052)

The Staffordshire Coal Industry AJ Taylor 1981 (S622)

Coal mining plans 18th - 19th century (see MAP collection)

Iron and Steel

Bilston Steelworks title deeds 1693-1964, wages books 1920-1961, analyses 1949-1976, cost sheets 1935-1955, accounts 1932-1979, drawing office records 20th century, technical drawings of plant, photographs and glass negatives c.1870s - c.1970s (DB-31)

The Development of the Iron Industry in South Staffordshire in the 17th Century: History and Myth Staffordshire Archaelogical & Historical Society Transactions 1996-1997 Vol XXXVIII (S9)

Masters and Men in Iron and Coal J L Smallshire 1993 (S672)

Famous Men of the Midlands No 1 John Wilkinson JP Jones, The Wolverhampton Journal, January 1909 (LB92)

The Wolverhampton Journal Vol VIII No 85 January 1909 (L07)

Letters patent granted to Walter Robinson of Gospel Oak Iron Works, Tipton, (Staffordshire) iron master for an invention of "improvements in the manufacture of thin sheets or plates of steel and iron" 1869 (DX-73/1)

Article from "Iron and Steel" (Dec 1962) entitled 'Bilston Visited'; typescript notes on the iron industry at Bilston (1945); and notes on Alfred Hickman's blast furnaces (1934, photocopy 1980s) (DX-234/1)

Ernest N Wright Ltd brochure [?1980s] (DB-35/3)

Spring Vale steelworks, [Bilston] photograph album c. 1928 (DX-495)

Wolverhampton & Birchley Rolling Mills Ltd brochure 1960s (DB-35/2)

Bradley Ironworks and John Wilkinson G R Morton and W A Smith 1966 (LB92p)

John Wilkinson: The King of the Iron Trade Wolverhampton Journal 1909 James P Jones (L07)

John Wilkinson: The Old Bersham Ironworks Alfred Neobard Palmer 1899 (LB92)

John Wilkinson: Man of Iron John Hoyland, 1966 (LB92p)

John Wilkinson and the Industrial Revolution in South Staffordshire Journal of West Midlands Studies, Vol. 5 1972 (S9)

John Wilkinson, Ironmaster History Today, May, 1951 (LB92p)

Bilston's First Iron Master, John Wilkinson Bilston Enterprise (LB92p)

Search For John Wilkinson Ron Davies (LB92)

Token Coinage of John Wilkinson Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Information Sheet (DX-231/2)

John Wilkinson as Note Issuer and Banker Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin, December 1948 (LB92p)

The Wilkinsons John Randall c. 1875 (LB92)

The Bradley Ironworks of John Wilkinson CR Morton and WA Smith reprinted from the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1966 (LB672)

Guide to the Iron Trade of Great Britain S Griffiths 1873 (S672)

John Wilkinson and the Industrial Revolution in South Staffordshire WA Smith, Staffordshire Iron and Steel Local History Source Book G 23 (S672)

A Brief History of the Works & A Description of the Principle Products and Plant British Steel Corporation Special Steels Division 1970 (LB672p)

The Elisabeth R Davies, The Blackcountryman, Spring 1984 (S052)

Historic Steel Billet SA Williams, The Blackcountryman, Winter 1980 (S052)

Bicycles

Wolverhampton Cycles and Cycling J Boulton 1988 (L629227)

Bicycle Production in Wolverhampton JM Bates 1984 (L629227)

The Rise and Decline of the Bicycle Trade in Wolverhampton 1868-1901 S Lent 1990 (L629227)

Wolverhampton cycle manufacturers list 2002 (L629227p)

The Sunbeam Motorcycle RC Champ 1980 (L6292275)

The Illustrated History Sunbeam Bicycles and Motorcycles RC Champ 1989 (L6292)

Sunbeam Cycles, The Story from the Catalogues 1908-1928 J Pinkerton & D Roberts 1985 (L6292)

P T Stallard, Cycle Manufacturer and Retailers, 30 Broad Street, Wolverhampton - financial and other business records c. 1935 - 1970s (DB-45)

Japan Tin-Plate & Bicycle & Galvanising Trades in Wolverhampton WH Jones 1900 (L609)

An Insight into Cycle Purchases in the Post-Boom Years Nicholas Oddy, Cycle History, 12 2001 (based upon a Star Cycle Company order book) (L6292sr)

Story of the Japan, tin plate working and iron braziers trades, bicycle and galvanising trades and enamel ware manufactures in Wolverhampton and district William Highfield Jones 1900 (L609)

Bicycle Production in Wolverhampton In the years 1868-1902 J M Bates, Wolverhampton Polytechnic Dissertation 1984 (L629.227)

Advent of the Safety Bicycle Mike Knight, The Blackcountryman, Summer 1984 (S052)

Wolverhampton Ordinaries Mike Knight, The Blackcountryman, Autumn 1984 (S052)

Cycle Manufacture in the Black Country Mike Knight, The Blackcountryman, Winter 1984 (S052)

At Your Service, A Look at Carrier Cycles John Pinkerton (L6292)

Wolverhampton Cycles and Cycling Jim Boulton 1988 (L629227)

Catalogues of Sunbeam Cycles c.1920s (L6292 and L6292p)

The Sunbeam Robert Champ, The Blackcountryman, Winter 1979 (S052)

Sunbeam Cycles, the Story from the Catalogues, Vol. 1 1887-1895, Vol. 2 , 1896-1907, Vol. 3 1908-1928 John Pinkerton and Derek Roberts (L6292)

The Illustrated History of the Sunbeam Bicycles and Motorcycles Robert Cordon Champ 1989 (L6292)

Star Cycle Company order book 1898 (DX-174)

Star Cycle Company newspaper cuttings 1902 (D-TET)

Star Cycle Company correspondence and bill heads 1892-1906 (DB-42)

Star Cycle Company, Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Illustrated 1898 (L609)

Article in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Illustrated 1898 (L609)

Article from the Wolverhampton Magazine (D-JSR/44/107)

Article in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Illustrated 1898 (L609)

Wearwell Cycle Accessories Co, catalogue, no date (DX-294/16)

Wearwell Cycles and Wearwell Stevens Ltd, The Black Country Bugle, August 1982 (WM07)

Plans of the Wearwell Cycle Works 1906, 1945 (WTON/3652, WTON/67/45)

Clarkes of Wolverhampton Mike Knight, The Blackcountryman, Winter 1985 (S052)

Henry Clarke catalogues 1900, 1901 (DX-294/11,12)

Catalogues of Peter Pan Strong Toys (toy cycles), no date (L6292p)

Mount Cycles Catalogue 1928 (L6292p)

Bamboo Cycle Co Ltd catalogue 1897 (L6292)

Title deeds of the Leopard Cycle Works, Blakenhall 1889-1899 (DX-137/20-31)

Plans of J Roper & Co factory, Upper Villiers Street 1910, 1946 (WTON/4721, WTON/406/46)

Richards Beau Ideal Cycles catalogue 1899 (DX-294/15)

Talbot Cycle Co Ltd catalogues 1901,1903 (DX-294/13,14)

Regent Motor & Cycle Co, trade accessories list 1904 (DX-294/10)

Raven Cycle Co Ltd trade accessories list 1907 (DX-294/9)

John Barratt, Wulfruna Cycles catalogue 1896 (DX-294/8)

Goodby & Sons Peerless Cycles catalogue 1896 (DX-294/7)

Article on the D H & S Diamond Cycle Company in Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Illustrated 1898 (L609)

Enamels

English Painted Enamels T & B Hughes 1951 (LB738.4)

English Painted Enamels G Bernard Hughes, Country Life Annual, 1958 (LB738p)

English Snuff-Boxes G Bernard Hughes 1971 (S738.4)

English Enamel Boxes S Benjamin 1978 (S738.4)

Wolverhampton Trades 1690-1704 JS Roper 1961 (D-JSR-44-38)

Wolverhampton Trades & Occupations JS Roper 1964 (L91)

Lockmaking

Locks and Lockmaking FJ Butter 1926 (L683)

Old Wolverhampton Sixty Years Ago JR Hardcastle 1888 (L9)

George Turner, lock manufacturer, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton accounts and bills etc 1802 - 1848 (DB-2)

Chubb & Son, Wolverhampton photocopies of lock register 1818 - 1868, lease for Old Mill Street 1841 (DB-8); plans of premises 1899 - 1939 (DX-560)

Apprenticeship indenture of George Arthur Clift, son of Isaac Clift, edge tool maker of Salop Street, Wolverhampton, to James Hodges of Wolverhampton, lock manufacturer, 1874 (DX-155/1)

Apprenticeship indenture of William David Wilson, son of Thomas William Wilson, of Salisbury Cottage, Sandy Lane, Tettenhall, safemaker, to Francis Joseph James Gibbons (trading as James Gibbons), of Church Lane, Wolverhampton, lock manufacturer and art metal worker, Apr 1910 (photocopy) (DX-755)

British Lock and Latch Manufacturers Association minutes 1898 - 1972, correspondence and other papers 1940 - 1968 (D-SO-2)

British Cylinder Lock Manufacturers' Association papers 1928 - 1960 (D-SO-17)