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The Gun Quarter is a district of the city of Birmingham, England, which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns. It is an industrial area to the north of the city centre, bounded by Steelhouse Lane, Shadwell Street and Loveday Street.
28 de ago. de 2023 · August 28, 2023. The Gun Quarter in Birmingham was once the world’s largest centre for gun making. The trade began in the early 17th Century, originally springing up in the mills in Digbeth, before moving to the current location north of the city centre.
The Gun Quarter is a district of the city of Birmingham in Warwickshire which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns. Today it is an industrial area to the north of the city centre, bounded by Steelhouse Lane, Shadwell Street and Loveday Street.
In 1767 the town had thirty-five gun and pistol makers, eight gun barrel makers and filers, five gun barrel polishers and finishers, eleven gunlock makers, forgers and finishers, and three gun swivel and stock makers. Gun making was a very fragmented industry.
The number of firms in Birmingham’s gun industry was 125 in 1815, 455 in 1829 (two-thirds of these in the Gun Quarter), and by 1868 there were 578 gun firms in the city. The trade employed 2,867 people in 1851, out of a total of 7,731 in the whole of England and Wales. “Gun-makers” did not usually manufacture the parts for their guns or ...
The Firearms Technology Museum. The Birmingham Gun Quarter. Return to Tranter's History. The gun trade is probably the industry that the city of Birmingham is best known for and most of this activity was centred around what was called the Gun Quarter.
13 de out. de 2021 · Shooting Times & Country Magazine. The epicentre of gunmaking. The Birmingham Gun Quarter was a buzzing hive of innovation, says Michael E Haskew. 2021-10-13 - The hammers rang and the acrid odour of coal fires permeated the air in what was then the epicentre of the world’s gunmaking industry, in the industrial area north of Birmingham city centre.
