Stourbridge, King Edward VI Grammar School c.1955
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Round Oak Iron Works in the 1850s.Though by no means the first iron works in the area, it would become the most important. It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway. Production began at Round Oak in 1857, and as demand grew the works was gradually extended. In 1889 a chain works was commissioned, and in 1892 Round Oak switched over to producing steel. Our pictures of Brierley Hill were taken in the 1960s, a time when Round Oak was one of the most modern steel plants in the West Midlands and capable of producing in excess of 250,000 tonnes a year. Stourbridge came into existence at a crossing point of the Stour.
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