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Description: | A reproduction of a photograph of the Lock Shop at the St. John's Works site in Church Street. The shop itself was 170 feet long by 21 feet wide and was unusually lit from the top and left, but not from the right. It could house sixty workmen. On the left, a youngster is using a hand press. Most of the younger workers were used as runarounds. The image depicts the fact that hand production of locks was still in evidence as late as the 1890s. The objects on the bench to the left appear to be mortice locks. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Workshops Working time Locks Photograph Men England Europe Wolverhampton Working conditions Blakenhall Workers Factory workers Metalworking Staffordshire 19th Century Work clothes Machinery Photographs James Gibbons Ltd | Temporal: | c 1898 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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