The Surface World Show 2013 is the major industry event for the UK surface treatment industries – aimed at specifiers, engineers, designers and practitioners. The Surface World Show offers all the latest technologies, products and services under one roof covering protective, decorative and functional coatings and platings of all kinds plus essential cleaning and pre-treatment. The Laboratory at The Birmingham Assay Office will be exhibiting at the SURFACE WORLD SHOW 2013 at NEC BIRM…

This course follows a bespoke event on Hallmarking that was organised for Warwickshire Trading Standards in November 2012, with a second cohort of staff due to take part in similar training in November of this year.  If you would like to arrange a bespoke training course please call 0871 871 6020 or email gem@theassayoffice.co.uk to discuss your requirements and timescales.  We look forward to hearing from you.

A clear trend emerges from the records. Most of the staff in the book worked here for many years - a pattern which has continued today. Take, for example, Alice Edge, a kitchen maid who worked from December 1894 to August 1923 giving 29 years service and Elizabeth Hemming, who started work in March 1882 aged just 15. She retired in December 1934 aged 67 after 52 years with the company. Other people worked here for shorter periods. William Haynes, for example, arrived in December 1916 as Nigh…