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A Catalogue of Commerce and Art: Bisset’s Magnificent Guide for Birmingham, 1808

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Advert for Martin Billing, Letter-Press, Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printer

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Advert for The White Hart Hotel, Birmingham

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Advert for Woolpack Hotel, Family and Commercial Inn, Warwick

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Advertisement: Kendall and Son, Perfumers, Cabinet Case Makers, and Importers of Foreign Fancy Merchandise, London

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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

Hotel, Birmingham, July, 1791. Commemoration of the French Revolution. A Number of Gentlemen intend DINING together on… read more »

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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Advert for transport between Birmingham and London

Safe and Elegant TRAVELLING. Hotel and Swan Inn, Birmingham. Paytons’s Old Original well-known LONDON POST-COACH, in Sixteen Hours… read more »

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Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Employment Advert

WANTED in a Gentleman’s Family, near Birmingham, immediately, or at Michaelmas next, a sober industrious Woman Servant;… read more »

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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

Image: Advertisement for J Taylor, Gold and Silversmith, Jeweller, Tortoiseshell and Ivory Box and Toy Manufacturer, Birmingham. J… read more »

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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

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William Spurrier, Electro Silver Plate Manufacturer, Birmingham

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William Spurrier, Electro Steel Plate Manufacturer, Birmingham

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