. The earth and its inhabitants ... working at home, or in small shops, andthey have thus retained a spirit of initiation and independence not usuallyfound to exist in manufacturing towns. The leading articles made at Bir-mingham are hardware, unequalled for variety and value ; tools, small arms,nails, pins, steel pens, buttons, jewellery, electro-plated ware, glass, bronzes, 110 THE BEITISH ISLES. papier-mâché goodo, and carriages. Near Haudsivorth, a little to the west the Staffordshire border, are the famous Soho and Smethwickworks, founded by Watt and Boulton, where ste
. The earth and its inhabitants ... working at home, or in small shops, andthey have thus retained a spirit of initiation and independence not usuallyfound to exist in manufacturing towns. The leading articles made at Bir-mingham are hardware, unequalled for variety and value ; tools, small arms,nails, pins, steel pens, buttons, jewellery, electro-plated ware, glass, bronzes, 110 THE BEITISH ISLES. papier-mâché goodo, and carriages. Near Haudsivorth, a little to the west the Staffordshire border, are the famous Soho and Smethwickworks, founded by Watt and Boulton, where steam-engines were first made. Themanufacture of toys is still vigorously carried on, the most curious of thisclass of goods being Chinese idols and African fetishes. The lower part of Birmingham is crowded with workshops, and grimy, butthe upper has regular streets, and the suburbs, including Edgbaston and AstonManor, abound in elegant villas and stately residences. liirmingham boasts now Fijy. GO.— 1 : 200, 2 Mills. of being the most radical town of the kingdom, and of having the largestnumber of public institutions supported by voluntary contributions ; yet it washere that the mob denounced the distinguished Dr. Priestley as an atheist andJacobin (1791), and destroyed his house, library, and apparatus. Amends forthis outrage have been made by the erection of a statue of the great chemist anddiscoverer of oxygen, which occupies a site in front of the municipal prominent amongst the public edifices of the town is its Town-hall, in whichthe celebrated triennial musical festivals are held, and which contains a finemarble bust of Mendelssohn, who produced here, in 1847, his oratorio Elijah. GLOUCESTEESHIEE. Ill Its shape is that of a Grecian temple, and it was built 1832—35. The Birmino-hamand Midland Institute adjoins it, and accommodates a school of science and art,a museum, and a free library. Xing Edwards Grammar School, founded in 1533
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