Electricity, tea and cyanide
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Electricity, tea and cyanide
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 20 Dec 2014
This is one corner of the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter. This is a manufacturing jeweller's workshop that is much as it was left in 1981. Visiting is by guided tour and our young lady guide was most entertaining. This corner of the workshop was inhabited by a woman who performed pickling, electroplating and tea making duties. The electroplating required DC current from the dynamo that looks like something from Frankenstein's laboratory. Pickling involved sulphuric acid and was unpleasant. The work also involved the use of cyanide in crystalline form and this apparently resembled sugar. The workers either learned to take their drink unsweetened or trusted to being nice to said lady! This site is strongly recommended and I would allow about 90 minutes for the guided tour and a look at the galleries.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.490511
Longitude
-1.912032