Family History...

My Grandfather Hubert Joseph Wild's workshop in the middle of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. This building has been empty for as far as my memory extends and the last time I visited this place, May 2007, it was still empty. A Mr Griffith, Die Maker, used the ground floor, I have a photo of him standing in his doorway and I now own his old Mellor lathe. Unfortunately I have little of my Grandfather Wild, just the ends of the wires he used draw down to make hinges. I have Grandfather Powells' old tools which I still use and some of Great Uncle Vics' saved from the garden shed as well as a few of the items they made.


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