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The counter-example that keeps the story honest. Birmingham industrialised as thoroughly as Manchester and looked nothing like it: not one dominant fibre but hundreds of metal trades —…
52.5, -1.9 · approximate · industrial growth c. 1750–1850s
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- A place in: Industrial Revolution · 6 places
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- is located in of Boulton and Watt — The partnership worked from Boulton's Soho Manufactory at Handsworth on the edge of Birmingham.
- comparable to Manchester — Both industrialised fully in the same decades, one through small skilled metal workshops and the other through large deskilled textile mills, which makes the pair the standard test of any single explanation of the period.
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