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Birmingham Gun QuarterThe Birmingham Gun Quarter, England was centred in that part of the city lying between the foot of Steelhouse Lane and Aston. There were a mixture of factories of moderate size, small factories and "shoppings", the name given to workshops which were let out to individual out-workers. It was close, cramped, higgledy-piggledy, with early Victorian tenement buildings pushing in between buildings of an earlier time and function. The largest factory was that of Webley and Scott in Slaney St., but smaller firms such as Bonehills and Benjamin West and numerous others in Price Street. Mingled with these factories were workshops. A gunsmith who wished to set up business of his own would rent a space in one of these from either the Council or the company of other gunsmiths who might be doing quite different work. Many local families were involved in the industry including the names of Dugard and Sanders.
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