Study Visit to the Black Country,Birmingham, Coventry and Redditch

24th to 26th April 2004

Briefing notes

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Black Country
• Soho Foundry
• Pen Museum
• Jewellery Quarter
• Birmingham Canal
• Shadow factories and Peugeot Cars
• Warwick Gas Works
• Redditch Needle Industries
• Warwickshire aqueducts
• Travelling Library List

The sites visited are on O.S. Landranger Sheets 139 Birmingham, 140 Leicester and Coventry, 151 Stratford upon Avon. National Grid References are given reasonably accurately. All reference material, shown in italics, is available in the “Travelling Library”