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Research Article
Once a scattered rural community, Tipton became one of the most intensely industrialised parts of the Black Country. Coal, iron, canals and engineering transformed its landscape before twentieth-century reclamation changed it once…
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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 the industrial…
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