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- 1 2 "The Carters Yard". Interactive Map. Black Country Living Museum . Retrieved 3 May 2012.
- ↑ Rowlands, [by] Marie B. (1975). Masters and men : in the West Midland Metalware trades before the industrial revolution . Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719005825.