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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… branches of the iron manufacture, especially that of nails: several companies of iron-masters have establishments …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… from the 1900s to the 1920s. 81 Wellington was noted for nails by the 18th century. 82 There were workshops in 1724 83 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in Walsall, 41 but the manufacture of hand-wrought nails continued to develop in West Bromwich. In the mid 17th … parish to employ the poor in nail-making, and in 1738-9 nails were apparently being made in the workhouse. 43 The … continued village of nailers' for five or six miles. 47 Nails formed an important part of the iron goods exported to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 72 In the 1690s the poor may have been set to work making nails for the profit of the parish, 73 but there was then no …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… shield-of-arms of Clouville two cheverons with five nails on each, 15th-century. Panelling: In S. aisleround …