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Smethwick (pronounced 'Smethick') is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. It is adjacent to Birmingham and West Bromwich. Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ...
The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ...
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Geography and administration
Originally the area was an Urban District and from 1894 a Municipal Borough in the county of Staffordshire. In 1907 it became a County Borough. In 1966, Smethwick was merged with the boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis to form the new County Borough of Warley. This in turn was merged with West Bromwich in 1974 to form the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell. In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ...
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
Map sources for Oldbury at grid reference SP3194 Oldbury is a town in Englands Black Country. ...
Map sources for Rowley Regis at grid reference SO9687 Rowley Regis is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands county, and a part of the Black Country. ...
Warley was a county borough formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the towns of Oldbury and Rowley Regis. ...
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Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ...
Smethwick had always been part of Staffordshire (even after its independence of county control following the creation of Smethwick County Borough in 1907). The Warley County Borough was placed entirely in Worcestershire on its creation, and since 1974 has formed part of the West Midlands county. Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...
The County of West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of around 2,600,000 people. ...
History
 Street nameplate on Rutland Road, Smethwick in April 2007, showing painted out "County Borough" lettering. Smethwick has previously been suggested to mean 'smiths' place of work' however a more recent interpretation has suggested the name means "The settlement on the smooth land". Smethwick was recorded in the Domesday book as Smedeuuich. Until the end of the 18th century it was an outlying hamlet of the south Staffordshire village of Harborne. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 215 pixelsFull resolution (951 × 256 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Street nameplate on Rutland Road, Smethwick, West Midlands, England, showing painted out County Borough lettering. ...
Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 215 pixelsFull resolution (951 × 256 pixel, file size: 79 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Street nameplate on Rutland Road, Smethwick, West Midlands, England, showing painted out County Borough lettering. ...
A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
Harborne is an area 3 miles southwest from Birmingham city centre, England. ...
The oldest building in Smethwick is The Old Church which stands on the corner of Church Road and The Uplands. This was consecrated in 1732 as a Chapel of Ease in the parish of St Peter, Harborne. The building was originally known as "Parkes' Chapel" in honour of Mistress Dorothy Parkes who bequeathed the money for the church and also for a local school. The chapel was later known as "The Old Chapel", and public house next to it is still called this. In the church there are several fine memorials, including one to Dorothy Parkes.
From the 18th century, three generations of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line were built through Smethwick, carrying coal and goods between the nearby Black Country and Birmingham. The BCN Main Line, or Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line describes the evolving route of the Birmingham Canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton in England. ...
The Black Country is a loosely-defined area of the English West Midlands conurbation, to the north and west of Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton, around the South Staffordshire coalfield. ...
- James Brindley built the first canal, the Old Line, over the Smethwick Summit in 1769
- his summit level was lowered and improved by John Smeaton in 1790
- Thomas Telford built a parallel, more direct route, in deeper cutings and without locks, the New Line, in 1829.
The Grade I listed Galton Bridge spans the New Line canal and railway. When built in 1829 by Telford, it was the longest single-span bridge in the world. Its name commemorates Samuel Galton, a local landowner and industrialist. It is identical to Telford's bridge at Holt Fleet over the River Severn built in 1828 and opened in 1830. James Brindley. ...
Portrait of John Smeaton, with the Eddystone Lighthouse in the background John Smeaton, FRS, (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792) was a civil engineer – often regarded as the father of civil engineering – responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. ...
Thomas Telford (August 9, 1757 - September 2, 1834) was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. ...
Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
Galton Bridge is a canal bridge in Smethwick, West Midlands, England built by Thomas Telford in 1829. ...
volcanic rock. ...
May be: Samuel John Galton, or his son Samuel Tertius Galton This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Holt is a place in the English county of Worcestershire. ...
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Matthew Boulton and James Watt opened their Soho Foundry in the North of Smethwick (not to be confused with the Soho Manufactory in nearby Soho) in the late 18th century. In 1802, William Murdoch illuminated the foundry with gas lighting of his own invention. The foundry was later home to weighing scale makers W & T Avery. Matthew Boulton. ...
For other persons named James Watt, see James Watt (disambiguation). ...
Soho Foundry is a factory created by Matthew Boulton and James Watt at Smethwick, near Birmingham, England, for the manufacture of steam engines. ...
The Soho Manufactory was an early factory, opening in Soho, Birmingham, England by Matthew Boulton in 1761. ...
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William Murdoch. ...
Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ...
A scale is either a device used for measurement of weights, or a series of ratios against which different measurements can be compared. ...
The world's oldest working engine, made by Boulton and Watt, the Smethwick Engine originally stood near Bridge Street, Smethwick. It is now at Thinktank, the new science museum in Birmingham. The firm of Boulton and Watt, a partnership between Matthew Boulton and James Watt, made steam engines at their Soho Foundry in Smethwick, near Birmingham, England. ...
The Smethwick Engine is a steam engine made by Boulton and Watt, brought into service in May 1779. ...
Thinktank is a science museum in Birmingham, England. ...
The public library in the High Street was originally built as the Public Hall in 1866-7 and is designed by Yeoville Thomason.[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 676 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2104 × 1867 pixel, file size: 702 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The public library in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 676 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2104 × 1867 pixel, file size: 702 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The public library in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. ...
H. R. Yeoville Thomason (1826-1901) was an architect in Birmingham, England. ...
H. R. Yeoville Thomason (1826-1901) was an architect in Birmingham, England. ...
Other former industry included railway rolling stock manufacture, at the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company factory; screws and other fastenings from Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, (GKN) , engines from Tangye, tubing from Evered's, steel pen nibs from British Pens and various products from Chance Brothers' glassworks, including lighthouse lenses and the glazing for the Crystal Palace (the London works, in North Smethwick, manufactured its metalwork). Phillips Cycles, once one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world was based in Bridge Street,Smethwick. Nearby, in Downing Street, is the famous bicycle saddle maker, Brooks Saddles. The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRC&W) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divided by the boundary between the two places. ...
GKN plc is a British engineering company formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and tracing its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution. ...
GKN plc is a British engineering company formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and tracing its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution. ...
Sir Richard Tangye (24 November 1833 - 14 October 1906) was a British manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. ...
Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks in Smethwick, Staffordshire, England. ...
For other uses, see Crystal Palace. ...
1960 Phillips Panda Mark 1 (P40) Phillips Cycles Ltd. ...
The Ruskin Pottery Studio, named in honour of the artist John Ruskin, was in Oldbury Road. Many English churches have stained glass windows made at Hardman Studios in Lightwoods House, or, before that, by the Camm family. The Ruskin Pottery studio was founded in 1898 by Edward Richard Taylor, the Principal of Birmingham School of Art, to be run by his son, William Howson Taylor, formerly a student there. ...
Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ...
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Former Prime Minister John Major's parents married at Holy Trinity Church, Smethwick there while they were on tour with a music hall variety act. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the United Kingdom. ...
For other persons named John Major, see John Major (disambiguation). ...
In 1966, Smethwick ceased to be a single County Borough and was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley, geographically although not administratively in Worcestershire. County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ...
Warley was a county borough formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the towns of Oldbury and Rowley Regis. ...
Worcestershire (pronounced ; abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. ...
In the 1960s, a large council estate in the west of Smethwick was built. It was officially known as "Galton Village" but as all of the homes were concrete blocks the estate was known locally as the 'concrete jungle'. The estate quickly became unpopular and was redeveloped in the early 1990s with modern low-rise housing. Other estates and areas include Black Patch, Cape Hill, Uplands, Albion Estate, Bearwood, Londonderry and Rood End.
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The town has often enjoyed a somewhat turbulent political history. Smethwick was created as a separate parliamentary constituency in 1918, having previously been part of the Handsworth constituency. At that year's general election, Christabel Pankhurst, standing as a Coalition candidate, was defeated by Labour. Smethwick was a parliamentary constituency, centred on the town of Smethwick in West Midlands. ...
In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ...
Birmingham Handsworth was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Handsworth district of Birmingham. ...
The United Kingdom general election of 1918 held on 14th December 1918, after the Representation of the People Act 1918. ...
Christabel Pankhurst Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE (September 22, 1880 – February 13, 1958) was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. ...
The Labour Party is an Anti-English political party in the United Kingdom. ...
Labour held the seat until 1931, from 1926 the MP being Sir Oswald Mosley, future founder of the British Union of Fascists. Mosley resigned the Labour whip in March 1931 but continued to represent the constituency until it was taken by the Conservatives at that year's general election. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980), was a British politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ...
The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ...
In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ...
The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ...
The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. ...
Labour won in the UK general election, 1945 on 26 July. However, the victorious MP, Alfred Dobbs, was killed in a car crash the very next day. He is the shortest-serving Member of Parliament (MP) in British history, if one discounts a few cases of people being elected posthumously. In the resulting by-election, Patrick Gordon Walker won for Labour. Clement Attlee Winston Churchill The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 held on 5 July 1945 but not counted and declared until 26 July 1945 (due to the time it took to transport the votes of those serving overseas) was one of the most significant general elections of the 20th...
is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Alfred James Dobbs (1882, Wellingborough-27 July 1945) was a British Labour politician and trade unionist. ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
The Smethwick by-election, 1945 was a by-election held on 1st October 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Smethwick in Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands county). ...
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker (7 April 1907–2 December 1980) was a British politician. ...
In the 1964 general election, Gordon Walker, who was Shadow Foreign Secretary, was defeated in controversial circumstances in the constituency by Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths. Smethwick had been a focus of immigration from the Commonwealth in the economic and industrial growth of the years following World War II and Griffiths ran a campaign critical of the government's policy. There were rumours that his supporters had covertly circulated the slogan If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour. Hardly had the heat of the election subsided when, on February 12, 1965, U.S. black activist Malcolm X visited the region just nine days before his assassination. He fueled further controversy when he told the press: The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of 4, and led to their first government since 1951. ...
The title of Foreign Secretary has been traditionally used to refer to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. ...
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Peter Griffiths (born May 24, 1928) is an English politician. ...
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February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...
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Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, also known as Detroit Red and Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 in New York City) was a Muslim Minister and National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ...
I have come here because I am disturbed by reports that coloured people in Smethwick are being treated badly. I have heard they are being treated as the Jews under Hitler. I would not wait for the fascist element in Smethwick to erect gas ovens. Malcolm X's visit to Smethwick had been organised by a BBC News journalist with a view to X having a debate with the Peter Griffiths outside Smethwick council house. Griffiths declined at late notice and so an interview with X was conducted on the streets of Smethwick. This was to be X's last TV interview before his assassination nine days later. It was never aired. BBC News is the department within the BBC responsible for the corporations news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ...
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Labour candidate, actor Andrew Faulds, defeated Griffiths in the 1966 general election and was MP for the constituency until his retirement at the 1997 general election. (The constituency was renamed Warley East in 1974.) Andrew Matthew William Faulds (1 March 1923 - 31 May 2000) was a British actor and politician. ...
The UK general election in 1966 was called by Harold Wilson because his government, elected in the 1964 election, had an unworkably small majority. ...
The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ...
Warley East was a parliamentary constituency in the borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of England. ...
Transport Smethwick is served by trains on both the "Jewellery Line" and the West Coast Main Line. The Jewellery Line links Birmingham Snow Hill station with Worcester, Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa. The West Coast Main Line links Birmingham New Street railway station, Coventry and Wolverhampton, with onward connections. The station on the West Coast Main Line is called Smethwick Rolfe Street. The former Smethwick West Station on the old Stour Valley line was replaced by a new facility opened at the same time as the Jewellery Line, serving both routes, which is called Smethwick Galton Bridge. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 587 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1639 × 1675 pixel, file size: 362 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The old turnpike toll house in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 587 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1639 × 1675 pixel, file size: 362 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The old turnpike toll house in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. ...
The WCML running alongside the M1 motorway at Watford Gap in Northamptonshire A Virgin Pendolino and freight train on the WCML The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important intercity railway lines in the United Kingdom, part of the British railway system. ...
The station entrance Birmingham Snow Hill station is a railway station located in the centre of Birmingham, England. ...
Worcester (pronounced ) is a city in the West Midlands of England, and is the county town of Worcestershire. ...
Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon is a town in Warwickshire, England. ...
, Leamington Spa, properly Royal Leamington Spa but commonly just Leamington, (pronounced Lemmington — IPA: ) is a spa town in central Warwickshire, England. ...
The tracks approaching the station Birmingham New Street is a major railway station located in the centre of the city of Birmingham, England. ...
For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ...
// Wolverhampton is a City in the historical county of Staffordshire and metropolian county of the West Midlands. ...
Smethwick Galton Bridge is a railway station in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. ...
Neighbourhoods - Galton Village
- Bearwood
- West Smethwick
- Cape Hill
- Abbey
Bearwood is an area in Sandwell, West Midlands, England, lying in the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough and is part of Smethwick. ...
Notable residents Liza Goddard (born 20 January 1950, in Smethwick, West Midlands, England) is a television and stage actress best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...
Julia Mary Walters, OBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English Golden Globe-winning actress. ...
Jamelia Niela Davis (born 11 January 1981), known professionally as Jamelia, is an English R&B singer, songwriter and sometime model and actress. ...
Christopher Graham Collins, aka Frank Skinner (born 28 January 1957 is an English writer and comedian. ...
Lee Hughes (born in Smethwick, West Midlands, May 22, 1976) is an English footballer who plays for Oldham Athletic. ...
Matt Hayes (born 24 November, 1961 in Smethwick near Birmingham, UK) is a British angler who has been making television angling programmes for the last 10 years featuring mainly on the digital TV channel, Discovery Real Time. ...
See also Black Patch Park, Winter 2005 Black Patch Park and the Merry Hill Allotments lie 2½ miles from Birmingham city centre (in the UK) on the Sandwell side of the boundary with Birmingham, surrounded north, east and south by railway embankments. ...
Reference - ^ *The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p81
External links - Sandwell Council
- Smethwick Local History Society
- Smethwick: Economic history, A History of the County of Staffordshire: Volume XVII: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), pp.107-18
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