Anvil Yard, Colley Lane, Cradley
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Anvil Yard, Colley Lane, Cradley
Image: © Leigh Cotterill Taken: 22 Feb 2023
Anvil Yard (walled area with trees), historic former site of lots of chain making in poor conditions. (ref: https://marlgray.angelfire.com/cradleylinks/page64.html ) The Anvil Yard was a collection of 17 houses and workshops ranged around a central yard, where the making of chains was barely discernible from everyday living. It was described in 1888, after an outbreak of typhoid, as "squalor and dirt far surpassing anything I have yet seen. ... little domestic workshops, built on to the houses, so that the occupants can step at once from kitchen to anvil." The Yard was demolished in 1931.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.463363
Longitude
-2.085324