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56 Years with City Firm
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newspaper cutting
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Warwickshire, Birmingham
1964
newsprint
overall: 170 mm x 141 mm

Three-column news and picture story from a Birmingham local newspaper, reporting on the retirement of Mr George Hine, a gold spectacle frame maker (one of the 'last in the country') when he retired from Frank Butterworth Ltd in April 1964 the day before his 70th birthday ,after 56 years' service. He is reported to have been involved in making the frames for Lloyd George, King Farouk and the Aga Khan and is shown in the workshop, holding a file across a vice. He is also wearing half-eye spectacles within full rims.


2021.221

Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021



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