Catshill First School and Nursery History | Year Three | Autumn 2 Timeline Bromsgrove History Key Vocabulary

Cottage A typical house generally consisted of one room down stairs and two 18th and 19th centuries Nail making was Catshill is most famous for nail making. up stairs with a nail-shop attached. Bromsgrove's main trade . This was a cottage industry, and in 1750 the Bromsgrove area employed about 1000 nailers, and Catshill was 1851 The number of people very much a centre for this trade. ‘The Oliver’ A work-bench, equipped with a working in the nail trade pair of treadle operated hammers. had risen to 10,300 with equal numbers of men and women employed. Nail Master Owns the workshop, equipment, 1795 The cut-nail process was raw materials for nail production first developed in America and sets the prices of nails. by Jacob Perkins in 1795. The Fogger A middle man who bought nails of 1811 Joseph Dyer, who set up the nail makers. machinery in Birmingham Nail Makers Made the nails from materials around 1811. Key People supplied by the foggers and nail makers. 1830 By 1830 cut-nails were William Tylsley The first known nailer in being produced in large Bromsgrove. The Industrial Revolution This saw the slow decline in the numbers, reaching its handmade nail trade. zenith in the 1860s. Albert Crane The last two nailers to keep Charlie Tooth on working were both from The Cut-Nail The cut-nail gave a superior grip Sidemoor and they compared to handmade nails. continued into the 1950s. "Hungry Forties" During the "Hungry Forties" the people in the Jacob Perkins Developed the cut-nail Child Labour The employment of children in an nail trade suffered terribly process in America in 1795. industry or business. and by 1842 nailers were dying of starvation. River Severn Nail making flourished because of Joseph Dyer Developed the cut-nail its links to the sea and trade. 1907 Hand nails accounted for process in England and set less than 10% of the total up machinery in nail production in the Birmingham around 1811. North Worcestershire Was close to the raw materials region. needed to make nails; coal and iron.