The rise and fall of the Birmingham cut nail industry. @historywm
The rise and fall of the Birmingham cut nail industry. @historywm
Uploaded November 2011 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Guy Sjogren charts the rise and fall of the cut-nail industry in Birmingham. In less than a century it went from cottage industry, to employing thousands in mills, and then into decline.

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