A local guide to Birmingham as it stood in the early industrial age, describing its churches, markets, manufactories, public buildings and charities, the canal wharves and fly-boats, and the carriers who linked it to the rest of England. An excursion round the town in the summer of 1818 adds Warwick and Leamington.
A snapshot of the workshop of the world in its youth, valuable to local historians and anyone tracing Birmingham’s past. Download the free EPUB.