Start of the Black Country
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Start of the Black Country
Image: © Gordon Griffiths Taken: 25 May 2014
The view of the stone off the Great Bridge Road (A4098) in Bradley, Bilston. Near this spot John Wilkinson (1728-1808) erected his first Black Country Blast Furnace. 1767 It marked the beginning of the Iron Age in the Black Country and was truly the mother furnace of the district. Walsall M B 1987 J Wilkinson died in Bradley 14 July 1808.
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52.558044
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-2.05586