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The Rowley Hills have dominated the landscape around Rowley Regis for centuries, but industry dramatically changed their appearance. Discover the story of Rowley Rag, the huge quarries that extracted it…
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Collieries, ironworks, furnaces, canals and factories once dominated Tipton. Much of that landscape has disappeared beneath housing, roads and reclaimed land, but surviving waterways, structures and place names still reveal…
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Wednesbury was an industrial community centuries before the factories and furnaces normally associated with the Black Country. Coal mining, ironstone extraction, medieval pottery and water-powered ironworking reveal a remarkable manufacturing…
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Oldbury was not always the densely developed Black Country town we recognise today. In the seventeenth century it was still a small country settlement, home to smallholders and…
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Few forces changed Smethwick as dramatically as industry. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, canals, factories, engineering works and glassmaking transformed the area from a relatively small settlement…
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James Timmins Chance played an important role in the history of Chance Brothers and Victorian Smethwick. This biography explores his life, family, industrial career and contribution to one of the…
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