Lower Rushall Street in Walsall, Staffordshire
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Lower Rushall Street in Walsall, Staffordshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 1 Jan 1972
The approximate date for this image is circa 1968-1973, being scanned from a monochrome negative. The far wall includes the words: BUCKLES AND BELT CLASPS, LEATHER GOODS AND CLOTHING TRADES,BRACE FITTINGS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS. The premises is the Eyland and Sons Ltd, Buckle Manufacturers, Rushall Street Works, but they were originally far more than that. "... Moses Eyland, who was making spectacles in Lower Rushall Street by 1813; by 1818 he combined the trade with that of saddler's ironmonger. By 1822 the firm had become Moses Eyland and Sons. By 1834 it was grinding lenses and producing some 3,000 pairs of spectacles a week. In 1889 it was grinding glass and rock-crystal lenses for its spectacles on a large scale as well as making buckles and engaging in gilding and electro-plating. Tariff barriers killed the export trade in spectacles, and early in the 20th century Eylands abandoned glass-working." (from A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: ) ed. M W Greenslade)
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Image Location
Latitude
52.584656
Longitude
-1.976342