Needless to say, the links below are far from comprehensive and are in addition to the links that appear in the existing chapters of Prosser The Engineer. Further links will be added as appropriate and on completion of the other stories.
If you would like us to include a link to your organisation's website please contact us and we would be very grateful to be "linked" in other websites.
ARCHIVES and other resources (General)
The British Newspaper Archive:
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
The British Library:
http://www.bl.uk/
The National Archives:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Library of Birmingham Archives:
http://www.libraryofbirmingham.com/archives
History West Midlands:
http://historywm.com/
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History:
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page
Ancestry - Genealogy:
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
Familysearch - Genealogy:
https://familysearch.org/
Phyllis Nicklin Collection - photos of 1950s and 1960s Birmingham:
http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/chrysalis.html
Measuringworth - "a service for calculating relative worth over time":
https://www.measuringworth.com/
National Records of Scotland: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/
Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://m.hathitrust.org/
NAILS and NAIL MACHINERY
Guy Sjogren - The rise and fall of the Birmingham cut nail industry:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UfnFzu9cZXI
Staffordshire Record Office (Britannia Brewery site documents):
http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/archives
A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent - Charles Dickens:
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54rp/chapter11.html
STOVES
Heritage Group Website of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers:
http://www.hevac-heritage.org/
THE DUST-PRESSED PROCESS
The Minton Archive:
http://www.themintonarchive.org.uk/
Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce:
https://www.thersa.org/about-us/
BUTTONS
National Button Society (USA):
http://nationalbuttonsociety.org/Home.html
British Button Society:
http://www.britishbuttonsociety.org/home-page
Emaux de Briare - museum of the Bapterosses manufactory (French):
http://www.emauxdebriare.com/museefr.php
Baubles and Buttons - "china" button collector's site (USA)
http://baublesandbuttons.com/
TILES
Hans van Lemmen - tile historian & author:
http://www.hansvanlemmen.co.uk
Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society ( TACS):
http://tilesoc.org.uk/tacs/
The Jackfield Conservation Studio (Lesley Durbin - conservator and author):
http://www.jackfieldconservation.co.uk/
Designs for Mosaic and Tessellated Pavements by Owen Jones (Ebook):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GFdJAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=owen+jones+designs+for+mosaic+pavements&hl=en&sa=X&ei=En3YU-faOsWYPcP9gYAP&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=owen%20jones%20designs%20for%20mosaic%20pavements&f=false
Plans etc. of the Alhambra - Goury and Owen Jones (Ebook):
https://archive.org/stream/Planselevations1Gour#page/n14/mode/1up
Jackfield Tile Museum - Ironbridge :
http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/our-attractions/jackfield-tile-museum/
Gladstone Pottery Museum - Stoke on Trent's principal tile museum:
http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/visit/gpm/
Stoke on Trent History:
http://www.thepotteries.org/
Tile Heaven (Jake Ellis) - antique tile online retailer:
http://www.tileheaven.uk/
Craven Dunnill Jackfield Limited - period tile manufacturer:
http://www.cravendunnill-jackfield.co.uk/
The Pugin Socety:
http://www.thepuginsociety.co.uk/
The Pugin Socety ( Birmingham):
http://www.birminghamheritage.org.uk/pugin.html
The Crystal Palace Foundation
http://www.crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk/
Osborne House:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/osborne/
Somerleyton Hall:
http://www.somerleyton.co.uk/
BRICKS
British Brick Society:
A Rudimentary Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles by Dobson
(Ebook):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zJcOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
TUBES
The narrative of Tubes: A Wealth of Trouble includes links (indicated by
underlining) to other relevant websites. The links below include a few
additional ones.
Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufacture and Mines 1867 (pp. 939 to 949)
(W.C. Aitken’s article)
Bev Parker - A History of Wednesbury website article
Mechanics Magazine October 1840 article on RP 1840 patent
William Carpmael -Law Reports of Patent Cases (Vol. 1) 1843
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by E. Edwards 1877
(Includes Henry Van Wart, Robert Walter Winfield and George Frederick
Muntz)
Samuel Aspinwall Goddard Obituary The Birmingham Daily Post 27th July 1886
PATENT REFORM
The Birmingham Debate Jan to April 1851 Aris's Birmingham Gazette
1851 Select Committee RP Evidence
GUNNERY
1854 Select Committee RP Evidence
HIGH HOUSE
Recollections of occupier pre-demolition