Design technology

• Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
• Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world (e.g. the switch from metal to plastics).

Science

• Forces – recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

History

• Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901.

History

• Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901.
• Britain as the first industrial nation – the impact on society; party politics, extension of the franchise and social reform.

Science

• Energy changes and transfers; simple machines give bigger force but at the expense of smaller movement (and vice versa).
• Other processes that involve energy transfer: changing motion, dropping an object, completing an electrical circuit, stretching a spring, metabolism of food, burning fuels.

• What other items were made in the Jewellery Quarter? How are they similar to the products made by Newman Brothers?
• Where do the items that you use daily come from? How has that changed over time?
• Newman Brothers was known for its goods made by the stamping process. How does this process work? Where it might still be used today?
• What would it have been like to work at Newman Brothers? Describe the work environment using each of the five senses.

• How has the manufacturing of items changed over time?
• Why did Newman Brothers move their factory to Fleet Street in 1894? How did the manufacturing industry that was centred in this area affect Birmingham’s growth?
• What can we learn about how Newman Brothers changed over time from the factory building?
• Act as a Health and Safety Inspector at Newman Brothers during the Victorian times, what concerns would you have?

• Categorise the various items that Newman Brothers sold. Design a web page that could be used to sell their products.
• Write instructions for making a handle using the stamping process.
• Create a Health & Safety poster for the Stamp Room.
• Write a diary entry as a new employee who has just started work in the Stamp Room for the first time.

Download Curriculum Map_Industry & Manufacturing

The Development of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter_An overview

Different products were made within the factory

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/dye-block/

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/stamp-shop/

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/shroud-room/

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/the-casting-shop/

The Stamp Shop at Newman Brothers

https://vimeo.com/241037164?from=outro-embed

https://vimeo.com/240197644

https://vimeo.com/152138907

Changes in manufacturing

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/dye-block/

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/gateway-object-nb-product-boxes/

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/themes/industry-manufacturing/

http://www.rhnuttall.co.uk/blog/birminghams-manufacturing-history/

https://billdargue.jimdo.com/glossary-brief-histories/a-brief-history-of-birmingham/victorian-birmingham/

https://vimeo.com/24019783

Manufacturing processes used at Newman Brothers

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/newman-brothers-ledger/

http://www.archive.coffinworks.org/objects/gateway-object-nb-product-boxes/

Processes used at Newman Brothers