The
Rolling
Mills//


These photographs illustrate the mechanised rolling mills in Bilston, and the hand rolling mills in Birchley. After the mills closed at Birchley they were transferred en bloc to the Black Country Museum where they still operate to this day.

Cooling beds at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Refurbished rollers Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Rolling mill operativeBirchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Lunchbreak Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Stockman at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Friends and rollers at Birchley Rolling Mills Oldbury (1977)
Having a kip , Birchley Rolling Mills Oldbury (1976)
Steel rod sorter, rolling mills Birchley, (1976)
Rolling mill worker Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Sorting the rolls out, Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Roller at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Rolling steel at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Rolling steel at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Rolling steel at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
The last pay day at Birchley Rolling Mills, Oldbury (1977)
Union membership card at Birchley hand rolling mills, Oldbury 1976 Birch
Tin shack for clothes, Birchley rolling mills, Oldbury (1976)
Steel roller British Steel Bilston (1977)
Co-workers share a seat in rolling mill cabin, British Steel, Bilston (1977)
In the finishing shop British Steel Bilston (1977)
Rolling mill manager, British Steel Bilston (1977)
The rolling mills Bilston British Steel (1977)
In the finishing shop Bilston rolling mills, (1977)
In the finishing shop, Bilston rolling mills, (1977)
Colleagues in the finishing shop Bilston rolling mills, (1977)
Friends in the finishing shop Bilston rolling mills, (1977)
Maintenance engineers In the finishing shop Bilston rolling mills, (1977)
The Horton brothers at the rolling mills British Steel Bilston (1977)
Steel roller British Steel Bilston (1977)