#VEDay After the war Guest Keen & Nettlefolds (GKN) were keen to inform their employees about the contribution their products were making to reconstruction. This poster showed exactly how many screws went into a prefab house. #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden #WW2 @archiveswm.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings Our store in the 1960s when it was first built as laboratories for the Botany Dept of the University of Birmingham. It now houses Winterbourne's archive and object stores, including the #Herbarium, #GKNarchive and family archives. @arascot.bsky.social

#Archive30 #ArchiveTechnology Joseph Sankey of Bilston were at the forefront of providing component parts for the electrical industry at a time when this was still exciting new technology. @arascot.bsky.social @postcardjim.bsky.social #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden

#Archive30 #SomethingBig These enormous scrap books contain all the catalogues and advertising material from Hardy Patent Pick of Sheffield, along with notices from the factory. They made tools for every possible application, from gardening to coal mining. @arascot.bsky.social #GKNarchive

#Museum30 Today's theme of #hardware leads us to our #GKNarchive. The ladders in this Hardy Patent Pick catalogue would provoke some serious H&S concerns now!