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Start of the Black Country

The view of the stone off the Great Bridge Road(A4098) in Bradley, Bilston. Near this spot John Wilkinson (1728-1808) erected his first Black Country Blast Furnace. 1767 It marked the beginning of...

The view of the stone off the Great Bridge Road(A4098) in Bradley, Bilston. Near this spot John Wilkinson (1728-1808) erected his first Black Country Blast Furnace. 1767 It marked the beginning of the Iron Age in the Black Country and was truly the mother furnace of the district. Walsall M B 1987 J Wilkinson died in Bradley 14 July 1808.

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