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Blast furnace, Russell's Hall, Dudley, West Midlands, 1859. Mr Mills, otherwise unknown as a photographer, recorded the blast furnaces at Russell's Hall, west of Dudley, when the industry was producing a vast number of iron products, including nails, boilers, vices and chains. Coal mining around Dudley had been recorded in the early 13th century and the area was famous for the manufacture of iron nails in the early 16th century. By the late 18th century Dudley was at the centre of England's iron industry, and the region was dubbed the 'Black Country' because of the blackening of the landscape by the coal and iron industries. Russell's Hall itself was pockmarked by clay pits and coal shafts, and significant urban development only took place after the Second World War. Dilute albumen print.
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AR9451373
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Image
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Public
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4865px × 3596px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Black Country
Blast Furnace
Britain
British
Chimney
country
dudley
England
English
english heritage
Furnace
INDUSTRIAL
Industry
IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY
Landscape
LOCATION
Manufacturing
MILLS
Monochrome
MR
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Photograph
Photography
Smokestack
TGN
TRADE
Victorian
wasteland
west midlands