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  Welcome to The Smethwick Heritage Centre Web Site
There are a variety of products related to Smethwick available to purchase, refer to the Products/Publications page for details.
There are no refreshments available at the centre or facilities to partake of them.
No food or drink to be brought into the building.
www.smethwick-heritage.co.uk /about.htm   (103 words)

  
  Smethwick - LoveToKnow 1911
SMETHWICK, a municipal and county borough in the Handsworth parliamentary division of Staffordshire, England, 3 m.
Adjoining Smethwick on the E. is the district of Soho, famous as the scene of the engineering experiments of James Watt during his partnership with Matthew Boulton (c.
The town of Smethwick is a modern growth about an ancient village, the name of which appears in Domesday.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Smethwick   (121 words)

  
  The Community of Smethwick
Smethwick was orginally an Anglo Saxon settlement, and a hamlet in the parish of Harborne.
Smethwick was rapidly expanding and the arrival of the railways in 1852 put Smethwick firmly on the map.
Smethwick had to adjust to this change and housing and new facilities were built to replace the industrial wasteland that factory closures had left behind.
www.birminghamuk.com /smethwick.htm   (501 words)

  
 Smethwick
Before the late 18th century Smethwick was an outlying hamlet of the South Staffordshire village of Harborne, a district of scattered cottages and small farms, country lanes, heaths and woodland.
Smethwicks reputation for engineering continued to grow, as did the size of its population, which by 1901 was 54,539 as oposed to 1,097 in 1801.
Smethwick’s coat of arms became redundant in 1966, as it lost its status as a single County Borough and was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley in Worcestershire.
www.ourwardfamily.com /smethwick.htm   (379 words)

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