list of items for Black Country Locals in Personalities
- Albert Head
- General Secretary of the Chainmakers and Strikers' Association for over 40 years, Albert built a reputation of dignified trade unionism and service to the community…
- Lucy Woodall
- Lucy Woodall was the last chainmaker in England, to make chain by hand…
- Patience Round
- Aged 79, and after 67 years as a chainmaker, Mrs Patience Round, "laid down her hammer, and bravely defied her employers by joining the others, who demanded wages of 2½d an hour instead of 1½d an hour"…
- Ruth Tromans
- Ruth Tromans was a chainmaker and one of the five original Trustees of the Cradley Heath Workers' Institute…
- Thomas Sitch
- Thomas Sitch rose from operating the bellows in a chain forge at the age of eight, to being one of the most highly respected men in the chain industry…