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    The 'Friendly' City.

    This is a brief extract from “Birmingham – the ‘Friendly’ city,” in my recently published Design and Culture - a transdisciplinary history. Industrial Revolution – 1750-1870 - Steam, iron &glass. This concentration of industrious enterprise meant that by the mid nineteenth century upwards of...
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    Smethwick

    You can take a boy out of Smethwick, but you can't take Smethwick (Smerrick) out of the boy, they say. That's me. Smethwick was never quite Birmingham, but fixed firmly between Brum and the Black Country. Only one vote among councillors prevented Smethwick being part of the City of Birmingham...
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