JW Evans, a set by English Heritage on Flickr.
This firm evolved inside domestic 19th-c housing, in the Jewelry Quarter, Soho district of Birmingham. Like so many specialist manufacturers, they turned out bespoke designs to high-quality specifications, in small batch production. But alas, a cheap-labour culture meant there was no incentive to modernise. And so - without modernisation - it effortlessly transformed from workshop into a museum, and thereby encapsulated tht transition from work to "heritage asset", which encapsulates a widespread failure of UK-society in the 21st century.
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