Testing a chain.

As well as making heavy chains by hand, Ernest Dunn had also won canary championship classes showing birds at Birmingham and Walsall. The photograph also shows Ivor Wentworth (right).

A giant Dreadnought-type anchor was being built at Belfast for the Canberra liner, which was to be launched by Dame Patti Menzies.

Mr G. W. Adams overseeing a butt welding machine operator joining chain links.

The article is a feature on the Cradley Heath and Old Hill area. Dudley, Halesowen, Brierley Hill, Blackheath, the Industrial Revolution, the Black Country, chainmaking and Mushroom Green are mentioned. The photograph includes the premises of Midshires Bu

Men working in a factory guide a chain swinging a part over a furnace.

The firm was probably the only firm in the country to still make chains by the side welding method. The photograph shows (left to right) W. Ward, A. Ward and R. Edwards welding the wrought iron link together with a double hafted hammer.

Chain cable for an Esso tanker being built at St Nazaire, France. Esso International Group, Japan, German, France, the Euro Group in Birmingham and the Queen Elizabeth II are mentioned.

The completion of a chain for the Q4. The photograph shows Victor Hill who worked on chains for the Queen Elizabeth in 1938.

Alice Griffiths using a modern machine.