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Hidden Gems of the Black Country - An Appreciation of Britain's Heritage Treasures (Paperback)
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Hidden Gems of the Black Country - An Appreciation of Britain's Heritage Treasures (Paperback)
Series: Heritage of Britain
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Loot Price R585
Discovery Miles 5 850
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The Black Country was given its name because of its extensive coal
mining and furnaces and was one of the cradles of the Industrial
Revolution. In the South Staffordshire area were deposits of coal,
limestone, iron ore and sandstone. These natural resources supplied
the huge industrial complexes of the 19th and 20th centuries which
had developed from the earlier domestic nail and chain industries.
These new heavy industries in the Black Country included iron and
steel making, engineering, lock and safe manufacturing, vehicle
construction, armament and war-time materiel, rails, locomotives,
industrial chain making, sheet iron and steel manufacturing and
even boat building, (for the rivers and canals of course), as well
as the specialised leather industries of Walsall and glass making
in the Stourbridge area of the Stour Valley.The list was endless,
but the need to export raw materials and finished goods out of the
area, both to nearby Birmingham and to the distant ports meant that
canals were being built. Today, most of the heavy industry has
gone, as has a lot of the railway lines, but the canals remain
mainly for leisure boating and to assist in the natural drainage of
the region. But remnants of forgotten times remain with us as
either relics of medieval rural life, long lost industry, transport
links or pockets of delightful domestic and industrial architecture
which are slightly off the beaten track.With the aid of Eric
Richardson's drawings taken from his Black Country portfolio,
archival photographs and contemporary photographs, this book takes
the reader on a tour looking at the some of the "Hidden Gems" of
the Black Country that have survived into the 21st century. The
ecclesiastical, the civic pride of the Victorians, memorials,
conservation areas and buildings and places worthy of restoration
as well as the real out of the way "gem" are included in this
volume. It is the hope that some of them might induce the reader to
make a visit to one of these "Hidden Gems".
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