Edge Tools

#1

The tithe map of 1841 shows a building in this area, by the Summerford Brook/River Tame, and the accompanying schedule describes it as 'Blade Mill, Engine and Yard'. Presumably this is a factory for the manufacture and sharpening of edge tools, employing water power.

#2

Eagle Edge Tools Monmore Green

#3

Around 1930 Edward Elwell Limited and the Chillington Tool Company of Wolverhampton combined and formed a holding company; Edge Tool Industries Limited.

#4

 

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