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Browse through our Button Galleries and marvel at the assorted buttons produced in Birmingham and Manchester by Hammond Turner and Sons.

Use our free button identification service to help with any Hammond Turner buttons you have found. We'll do our best to tell you more about your button

Take a few moments to read famous author Charles Dickens' fascinating and detailed account of button making in Birmingham, written in the early 1850s.

The history pages reveal the lives of children working in Victorian factories. It is dreadful to read about boys and girls as young as 9 working 12 hours a day, 5 (or more) days a week.

Our guide to the locations of Birmingham’s button makers uses facts from Samuel Sketchley and Orion Adams’s 1770 directory and maps them onto Richard Davies’s 1841 map.

Native American indians from the Ojibbeway and Ioway tribes were shown around the premises of Hammond Turner and Sons in the mid-1800s.

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