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Video compilation 7c: A & E Squire, Cabinet Lock Makers

Pressing lock cases A & E Squire was founded around 1930 and in 1987 employed 25 people making cabinet locks in Little Lane, Short Heath.

It is a good example of a medium sized family run firm using hand skills alongside machine tools to make small locks of a high quality.
Made with the help of The Lock Museum
& Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council.

NGR: 139 SJ 979 010
Recorded July 1987

This tape has no commentary. Running Time: 54 mins. £ 11.75

Also available as part of a longer collection;
see Compilation No. 7d: "Locksmiths" 		A brass cabinet lock

All images taken from the video.

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