Product Description

Birmingham was a renowned manufacturing centre by the 18th century and the city rapidly grew into the primary industrial centre of the Midlands. An account of Birmingham's heyday of heavy industry is recorded and the story is brought up to date with the story of the decline of heavy industry and its subsequent replacement by design, technology and computing. The proposed redevelopment of Rover's Longbridge site as a science park is symptomatic of this change.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #589025 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 203 pages

About the Author
Ray Shill is an industrial and transport historian: he lives in Birmingham. His first book for Sutton Publishing was Birmingham Canals in 1999.