Wednesday 9 January 2013

Sidebotham's Steep Trap Works, 1913

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 This is the reconstructed Sidebotham's Steep Trap Works, built in 1913 in Wednesfield near Wolverhampton. In the Edwardian era, Wednesfield was a major manufacturing hub of traps for small animals and exported them worldwide. Interestingly the building has a Belfast Truss roof, Belfast trusses were a very popular and strong way of having wide roofs, and are most often seen in photographs and the few surviving examples of First World War aircraft hangars. The Trap Works are now open to the public at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley


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