James Foster was a prominent Worcestershire ironmaster, coalmaster and senior partner in the important iron company of John Bradley & Co, Stourbridge, which was founded by his elder half-brother but g
The Bradley and Foster family home, Lower High Street, Stourbridge
James Foster's home from 1833 was Stourton Castle
James Foster was buried in the family vault at St Mary's, Oldswinford
John Bradley & Co was a company established in 1800 by John Bradley at Stourbridge in the West Midlands area of England. The company developed into a large industrial concern with furnaces, ironworks
Murray's Hypocycloidal Engine, a steam engine, was installed at John Bradley's in 1805
Agenoria, an early steam locomotive owned and operated by John Bradley & Co, now at the National Railway Museum, York
Stourbridge Town Clock, donated to the town by William Orme Foster in 1857, was designed and constructed at John Bradley & Co.'s Stourbridge Iron Works