Bristol Brass. A history of the industry

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Provides a detailed and carefully researched account of Bristol's brass smelting and brass goods production industries and its associated industries of copper and zinc smelting, with much on the origin of these industries from the late 17th century especially the Company of Mineral & Battery Works; introduction of copper and brass smelting with coal including the Clerke family, the Coster family, Abraham Darby and Baptist Mills, Company for Brass & Battery Works; William Champion and Warmley Works; decline of the industry and growth of Birmingham; disappearance of the industry in the early 20th century. Includes a gazetteer of sites [pp204-19]. Provides much business specific information eg re the Coster family, the Warmley Co and William Champion & Co, Harfords & Bristol Brass Co, John Freeman, 'the Old Bristol Co', etc