The old industrial town of Stourbridge owes
some of its fortunes to the European glass-
blowers who settled here in Elizabethan
times, founding an industry which has
endured.
Over 12,000 pieces of worked flints including arrow-heads, scrapers, saws, borers and hammers were discovered here, indicating the existence of a New Stone Age settlement in the area.
The blacksmith's shop and the wheelwright's were next to each other, and the smith obliged with extras: 'blowers' to 'wuther up' the fire and iron hoops for the boys to bowl.
The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for boring cannon.
One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds
stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging
hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for
The ironstone church has a slightly
odd saddleback double bellcote, but the
churchyard exhibits a number of good
headstones, including one to Mary Blower
of 1781 by Christopher Staveley, a Melton
The ironstone church has a slightly
odd saddleback double bellcote, but the
churchyard exhibits a number of good
headstones, including one to Mary Blower
of 1781 by Christopher Staveley, a Melton
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