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The Soho Manufactory

Heartland said:
Matthew Boulton's factory at Soho disappeared under housing once the works had closed. Whilst there are maps and some engravings, there are few detailed views of this once famous establishment. In a book entitled Picturesque views of towns, cities etc published by W West in 1834. There is an engraving showing the Factory as seen from Ninevah Road, which shows all the structures on the site.
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The same etching of the Soho Works is borrowed from that latest Black Country Society talk/video, being a rare view of the rear of the Soho manufactory from Nineveh Road. It shows that the functional part of the manufactory was still architectural and landscaped.


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juliatingate said:
Attached is a google drive link to my thesis I completed in may. I'm still trying to figure out the forum but I thought as though here would be a good place to post it. This is yet to be published, so let me know if their are any historical references I need to change!


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I am replying as just a contributor to this forum and an interest in early industrial history in Birmingham. I enjoyed the draft of your dissertation prior to submission .I am not an art historian so I am not able to comment direct on early Georgian designs of silver candlesticks in the 18th Century.

Old Sheffield Plate was accidently developed by Thomas Bouler in Sheffield UK in 1742-1743 when he found that Silver and cast Copper Ingots could be 'rolled bonded' together into single sheets just below melting point of silver. The analogy is hot roll bonding a sandwich of Silver- Copper- Silver to a small thickness which can be further formed into complex shapes through a series of dies with reverse image of final shape in the die cavities. This meant that the final edges had to be rolled over or a small U shape to hide the copper on complex design shapes.

Silver Electroplating process was developed by Elkington's in Birmingham in 1840 which replaced the Old Sheffield Plate process used in Soho.

I hope this helps and wish you well with your dissertation submission and your overall final degree qualification
 
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