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Birmingham Emblem showing Trades and Coat of Arms

David Hamme

David Hamme

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Some time ago I came across this large cast iron 22” diameter emblem, but am wondering if anyone on the forum can help identify where it came from.​

It shows the Birmingham coat of Arms, which I believe was used between about 1889 & 1936. It is surrounded by illustrations of various (Birmingham) trades and tools (stone mason, artist, drill / punch, fitting (spanner, tap wrench), loco, grinding wheel, vice, mobile crane, carpentry tools, blacksmiths anvil & hammer). The outer decorative ring could be considered to be a gear wheel.
There are also 4 holes which went right through, but have been filled in, and the back has had many layers of paint over the years including blue & green. One suggestion is that it was a gate boss fixed to large yard / factory type gates in the Birmingham Area.

If anyone out there can remember it, I would be really interested in learning about it and where it was fitted.
Thanks
David 11-12-05 035red.jpgBack 1red.jpg​
 
Radiorails said:
If, as suggested, it once adorned a large gate my suggestion would be Metro-Cammell or BRCW. All the trades depicted could be found in such a place as those mentioned.
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Metro-Cammell is what I thought, but a person who worked there couldn't recall one (could have been taken off before he worked there). I also wondered about the BIF next to Castle Bromwich Station but have never seen any photos of the gates (if it had any). However BRCW could be a possibility.
My though that it was a gate boss may not even be right.
Thanks Alan for the suggestion. Hopefully someone may be able to confirm or disprove these thoughts.
 
David Hamme said:
Metro-Cammell is what I thought, but a person who worked there couldn't recall one (could have been taken off before he worked there). I also wondered about the BIF next to Castle Bromwich Station but have never seen any photos of the gates (if it had any). However BRCW could be a possibility.
My though that it was a gate boss may not even be right.
Thanks Alan for the suggestion. Hopefully someone may be able to confirm or disprove these thoughts.
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Might we’ll be as Alan suggests, Metro-Cammell, however I seem to recall as you suggest a similar emblem for the BIF at Castle Bromwhich!
 
i guess most of you will know but could someone tell me what BRCW and BIF is short for please and their locations...i can then maybe go though my photo files to find photogaphs of these places that may show the emblem...thanks

lyn
 
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