Birmingham - City of a 1000 trades, some main trades gave birth to many others, an example being the Jewellery Trade. My grandfather was a ring maker and related trades were: gem cutting, setting, engraving, polishing, assaying, etc.
He was made redundant late in his career and set himself up as self-employed (probably had no choice, I don't think there was unemployment benefit) and worked from his bench (peg) in the front room of his Heaton St terraced house. My mother (the youngest of his 11 children) was pressed into service collecting his supplies of gold bullion from dealers Johnson Matthey in the Jewellery Quarter, her route: along Heaton St to Lodge Rd (The Flat), along lodge Rd towards Key Hill turning right at the junction with Icknield St, past Key Hill Cemetery, under the railway arches of Hockley Station where she then made a left up Pitsford St, when at the top she would make her way to the dealers, I thing they were in Vyse St., she returned with the solid gold bars in a carrier bag.
Peg.