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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/C15/Box 3/8/1 - 3
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/18/3/8
TitleAlderman Brotherton's Notes about Worcestershire Industries
DescriptionVarious notes and other items collected during the course of Alderman Brotherton's research, comprising:

1 - A Prospectus for 'D W Barker's Patent Brick Works Worcester' established 1869 (pamphlet dated c.1873), slightly torn and pages loose, with a page torn from an unidentified publication that describes various manufacturing industries in Worcester; a booklet 'The Worcester Patent Brick Works' describing the history of the founder and the brickworks, manufacturing process and products made from 1869 to about 1889. With a bundle of notes handwritten by Brotherton concerning brick sizes, bricks usage in Worcester and other information.

2 - Newspaper clippings, letters and handwritten notes concerning Anderson & Virgo Dispensing Chemists and its predecessor chemists run by the Evans brother, all from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

3 - Handwritten research notes about the Hop Market and the House of Industry, with a newspaper clipping reprinting old postcards (pre-World War One), from the 1960s.
Datemid 19th century-mid 20th century
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