The three-hundred-year history of manufacturing steel wire and wire rope in Birmingham and the histories of the people who worked here is being brought to life at Hay Mills. 

Working with the archives of Webster and Horsfall, Birmingham’s oldest manufacturing business, volunteers are delving into employment records and the worlds of music, transport, armaments, telecommunications, mining, oil, food production, health and many others showing how the developments and inventions created here have been at the very centre of some of the most significant and historic industrial events over the last three centuries.

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