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	Soho
		Soho is famed for its many clubs, pubs, bars, and restaurants, as well as late night coffee shops that give the street an "open all night" feel at the weekends and not forgetting the array of sex shops dotted here and there.
		Soho is near the heart of London's theatre area, and is a centre of the independent film and video industry as well as the television and film post-production industry.
		Soho is such a varied and cosmopolitan area that in much of it the sex industry is not at all evident; the idea that it is wholly a red light district is now very out of date.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DSoho (1749 words)

	The ormolu of Matthew Boulton.(Mathew Boulton: Ormolu by Nicholas Goodison)(Book Review) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The manufacture of ormolu was a distinctly minor activity at the renowned Soho manufactory near Birmingham operated by the partnership of Boulton and John Fothergill.
		A description of the Soho factory by a visitor in 1770 begins like a fairy tale: "About a mile and half beyond Birmingham upon the side of a wild heath, stands Soho," and then the writer proceeds to describe the activities in the thirty-nine rooms she visited.
		Unfortunately, the intensive expansion of the manufactory between 1765 and 1767 left the partnership far from profitable until it was dissolved with the death of Fothergill in 1782.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-109739873.html (947 words)

	Soho, Birmingham at AllExperts
		Soho is an area in north west Birmingham, approximately 2 miles from the City Centre on the A41, which until 1911 formed part of Handsworth District.
		Soho is also a ward within the formal district of Ladywood.
		Soho had stations on the LNWR's Stour Valley Line between Smethwick Rolfe Street and the also closed Winson Green railway station, and on the GWR between Handsworth and Smethwick (now Handsworth Booth Street) and Hockley (replaced by Jewellery Quarter).
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/so/soho,_birmingham.htm (244 words)

	All Saints - WAR ENG
		The manufactory concentrated on the production of a wide range of finished metal articles, including coins, whilst the components for Watt's steam engines were made at the Soho Foundry in nearby Smethwick.
		Soho Manufactory closed after the death of James Watt the younger in 1848, and was demolished some 15 years later.
		The minting of coins continued in Soho; Boulton's steam presses were brought by Ralph Heaton and Son in 1850, and installed at their workshops in Bath Street.
	privatewww.essex.ac.uk /~alan/family/G-AllSaints.html (836 words)

	Soho House, Birmingham UK
		Soho House is an important and historic building.
		Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in 1728.
		After the death of his father, Boulton purchased a parcel of land in Soho and opened his first factory for coin-making.
	www.birminghamuk.com /sohohouse.htm (291 words)

	Soho_Manufactory - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		The Soho Manufactory (grid reference), not to be confused with the Soho Foundry, was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line principle, in Soho, Birmingham, England.
		The manufactory produced a wide range of goods from buttons, buckles and boxes to japanned ware (collectively caled toys), and later luxury products such as silverware and ormolu (a type of gilded bronze).
		The manufactory was demolished in the middle of the 19th century and the site used for housing.
	www.thewordbook.com /Soho_Manufactory (271 words)

	Soho House Steam Engine Museum by SteamReplicas
		In the visitor centre next to Soho House is a community history gallery with a changing programme of exhibitions and activities.
		Soho house is one of the nation's most important historic buildings.
		Various metal items were probably made at the Soho Manufactory, including the ormolu sidereal clock and James Keir's experimental metal alloy "eldorado" can be seen in the Dining room.
	www.steamreplicas.co.uk /SohoHouseMuseum.asp (551 words)

	Digital Handsworth - Search Themes
		This pair of ormolu and blue john ewers was made by Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill at the Soho Manufactory.
		This photograph of the ground plan of the Soho Manufactory in Handsworth was taken c.1900, though the plans themselves are dated 1788.
		The Soho Manufactory was founded in 1761 by Matthew Boulton on Handsworth Heath in the parish of Handsworth near Birmingham.
	www.search.digitalhandsworth.org.uk /engine/theme/default.asp?theme=662&text=0 (311 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Soho House, Matthew Boulton's home (from 1766 until he died in 1809) in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is now a museum (opened in 1995), celebrating his life, his partnership with James Watt and his membership of the Lunar Society.
		Boulton acquired the lease of the five year old Soho Mill in 1761 and developed it into Soho Manufactory.
		Boulton moved in to Soho House when the Manufactory was completed in 1766.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Soho_House (214 words)

	Matthew Boulton
		It was here that his ambitious plans were realised and the world famous Soho Manufactory was built at a huge cost of £10,000.
		Soho House which was near the site of the manufactory still stands and acts as a museum and testament to his achievements.
		Matthew Boulton died in 1809 and without his leadership and direction the business declined and the manufactory was demolished in 1848.
	www.birminghamuk.com /matthewboulton.htm (452 words)

	More about Matthew Boulton
		In about 1800 he was commissioned by Catherine the Great, who had herself visited Soho in 1776, to supply coinmaking machinery for the new Russian Mint in St Petersburg which, as we have seen, was designed by the Birmingham architect William Hollins.
		The manufactory was closed after the death of James Watt junior in 1848 and knocked down a few years later, although Boulton's adjacent residence, Soho House, survives and is now open to the public.
		In 1792, threatened with a riotous attack on the Manufactory over a rise in the price of copper, which was attributed to the quantities of the metal he was using in coining, he had equipped his men with 200 oak cudgels and cleaned and charged some cannon he possessed.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /moremboulton.htm (4693 words)

	Soho Manufactory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Soho Manufactory was an early factory, opening in Soho, Birmingham, England by Matthew Boulton in 1761.
		The manufactory produced a wide range of goods from button s, buckle s and boxes to japanned ware, and later luxury products such as silverware and ormolu (a type of gilded bronze).
		It was also home to the first steam -powered mint.
	www.randomnugget.com /resource-Soho_Manufactory.html (111 words)

	Digital Handsworth - Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The wooded landscape around Soho House so vividly depicted by John Phillp's drawings was created by Matthew Boulton.
		When he leased the land in 1761, Soho was set in an unattractive treeless heath, but he was determined to develop the landscape as ambitiously as he developed his businesses.
		Further landscaping in 1795 hid the Soho Manufactory and nearby roads to create the impression of a wooded rural estate.
	www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk /hiddenlives6.stm (206 words)

	And afterwards ...
		Keep straight on at the bottom of the hill, noting that the Hockley Brook, which powered the Soho Manufactory, passes under here and the Manufactory was just a short distance away to the left.
		Soho House is a short distance along, on the left.
		As such it has undergone considerable change and although it says 'Soho Foundry' on the wall, the building you see is not the original one.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /andafter.htm (1045 words)

	Staffordshire Views - Theme Explorer
		North east view of the Soho Manufactory, showing a large white building of three storeys, surrounded by smaller buildings.Inscribed 'To Mathew Boul...
		'Soho, Staffordshire.' North east view showing a large white building of three storeys, surrounded by smaller buildings, and a lake to the right of...
		'Soho Manufactory.' North east view showing a large white building of three storeys, surrounded by smaller buildings.
	www.views.staffspasttrack.org.uk /engine/theme/default.asp?theme=277&originator=%2Fengine%2Ftheme%2Fdefault%2Easp&page=2&records=30&direction=1&pointer=9553&text=0 (285 words)

	Steam Engines of the Eighteenth Century - The Lap Engine
		I n 1788 James Watt built a beam engine the sole purpose of which was to provide the rotary power to the lapping and polishing machines at Matthew Boulton’s Soho Manufactory in Birmingham.
		At the Soho Manufactory the whole diameter of this wheel was above the factory floor as can be seen on the Lap Engine in miniature.
		The flywheel of this engine is 16 feet in diameter and was fitted with 304 wooden gear teeth, these teeth were used to drive a counter shaft which drove each individual lapping and polishing machine.
	www.btinternet.com /~historical.engines/Lap_engine.htm (420 words)

	Birmingaham Museum Schools - Soho House
		Students are given a tour of Soho House Museum and its Visitor Centre.
		Students will also learn about Boulton’s contribution to industry including the Soho Manufactory and Mint, the role of the influential Lunar Society and its members and what life would have been like in the house at the time.
		In addition to all these opportunities we are willing to write and deliver material to support specific needs and have done this on numerous occasions with both schools (primary and secondary) and colleges.
	www.schoolsliaison.org.uk /2004/soho/secondary.htm (513 words)

	4. The Soho Manufactory: The Ingenious Mr Boulton
		The pedestals are made from white marble and the 12 inch bronze figures are fixed to the base by a copper plate.
		Once the Soho Manufactory was built, Matthew Boulton moved his business from Birmingham town centre.
		Not only did Soho switch over from water power to steam power; Watt’s steam engines were installed in many countries as industrialisation began to take shape.
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	3. The Soho Manufactory: From Snow Hill to Handsworth
		Matthew Boulton’s Soho Works was built between 1762 and 1764 to provide a base for his expanding buckle and button business.
		The name probably has the same derivation as the Soho in London – it is based on a hunting cry.
		Boulton was one of the founders of the scientific society known as the Lunar Society, and Soho House became one of the group’s regular meeting places.
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	Chapter 6
		Wishing for larger premises, he selected a site at Soho, and there built a factory to accommodate, it is said, over a thousand workmen.
		The Queen showed me her last child, which is a beauty." A few years earlier he had not been considered good enough to marry into one of the county families.
		Soho became one of the sights of the kingdom and was visited by the crowned heads and nobility of Europe; Boulton won recognition as the greatest living authority on matters of industry and trade, and became the trusted adviser of governments.
	www.history.rochester.edu /steam/marshall/chapter6.html (2681 words)

	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
		Soho House was once a regular meeting place for some of the greatest minds of the 18th century.
		It was in the dining room of this elegant house that Matthew Boulton, one of the country's first industrialists, entertained the leading scientists and inventors of the industrial age.
		Boulton’s Soho Manufactory made gilded ormolu decorative objects like clocks and candelabra as well as silverware and the cheaper Sheffield plate wares, which offered an affordable alternative to silver for the growing middle-class.
	www.bmag.org.uk /index.php?type=element&maincat=1&subcat=2&subelement=5 (333 words)

	Boulton & Watt: Luminaries
		A watt is a unit of power (1/746th Horsepower to be exact), and for various types of light bulbs (incandescent, fluorescent, and so forth) it's a fairly good measure of how bright the bulb will be.
		There were times the mint advised potential customers that their proposed coinage could not be undertaken because of questionable authority, and sometimes strove to convince Parliament or some other government body of the wisdom of allowing a particular undertaking, though this effort was often performed by manufacturing agents.
		However extensive the output of the Soho Mint was, the best known achievement of the Boulton and Watt mint was the 1797 striking of the British penny and twopence.
	www.glencoin.com /boulton&.htm (1235 words)

	Soho Manufactory
		The Soho Manufactory was established by Matthew Boulton in 1761 in the area now occupied by South Road.
		The Manufactory was demolished in the middle of the 19th century and nothing can now be seen above ground.
		At Soho House, Mathew Boulton’s home, there is more information about the Manufactory, including a reconstruction drawing of the site, finds from the excavations and some of the products of the Manufactory.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk:81 /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=14443&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=11481 (161 words)

	DOTY, R., The Soho Mint and the Industrialisation of Money. London 1998. British Numismatic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The rise of the Soho Mint coincided with the rise of the British Industrial Revolution.
		Matthew Boulton and his associates at Soho Manufactory met and defeated this threat by creating a battery of steam-powered machines which could mass-produce unforgeable copper coinage.
		And their activities were soon taking a logical but crucial new identity; from exporting coins, Soho would export mints, steam-powered replicas of itself, so that the rest of the world could take advantage of Soho's new technology.
	www.polybiblio.com /spink/412.html (253 words)

	Archives from Soho by SteamReplicas.co.uk
		The Archives of Soho, named after Boulton's Manufactory at Soho, Handsworth, are the papers of these remarkable men.
		His magnificent Manufactory at Soho, Handsworth, built in the 1760s, was Europe's largest, producing articles for sale in Britain and on the Continent, including buttons, buckles, silverware, and ormolu.
		Besides the records of various Soho firms, they contain the correspondence of Boulton family members with people of every description, and minutely detailed household and estate records from Soho.
	www.steamreplicas.co.uk /ArchivesSoho.asp (858 words)

	The Silverware Shop - Hallmarks & Silver
		There had been problems with both damage to merchandise and robbery, by highway men when goods were being transported to and from other assay offices such as Chester and Exeter (both now closed) and also London.
		After intense lobby ing of parliament by Matthew Boulton who owned the famous Soho manufactory permission was granted for both Birmingham and Sheffield to have their own assay offices.
		It is said that the final meeting between the two took place in an inn named the Crown and Anchor and a toss of a coin decided which town would have which symbol as part of its hallmark.
	www.silverware-shop.co.uk /about_us.html (1018 words)

	INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: SERIES ONE: Boulton & Watt: Parts 12 and 13
		There is a lot of correspondence from Thomas Barnes to John Southern, the head of Boulton and Watt’s Drawing Office at the Soho Manufactory.
		William Forman (Clerk, later the Head Clerk, in the engine firm’s counting house at Soho Manufactory) He was also responsible for the copying press firm, James Watt and Co. These letters written by Forman during the period 1791-1796 and 1799-1800 were sent to James Watt and James Watt Junior whilst they were in London.
		These letters from three senior employees at the Soho Foundry cover the period 1800-1811 and most are addressed to James Watt Junior and Matthew Robinson Boulton.
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /digital_guides/industrial_revolution_series_one_parts_12_and_13/Publishers-Note-Part-12.aspx (3039 words)

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