Black Patch Park
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Black Patch Park is a park in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is bounded by Foundry Lane, Woodburn Road, Perrott Street and Kitchener Street, at grid reference SP038888.
Football pitch at Black Patch Park
Boundary Brook
Gypsies on the Black Patch
Soho Manufactory
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The Soho Manufactory was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line principle, in Soho, Birmingham, England, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It operated from
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…entrepreneurs including Matthew Boulton, and James Watt who bought 18 acres (73,000 m2) by the canal at Merry Hill, about a mile from the firm's Soho Manufactory in Handsworth and opened the Soho Foundry in 1796 'for the purpose of casting everything relating to our steam engines'. As the local population grew…
The Soho Manufactory in 1800.
The Soho Manufactory c. 1860.