Workmen's Cottages in Foundry Road

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Date:January - December 1941 (c.)

Description:The cottages were lived in by workmen from the nearby Soho Foundry. The plaque on the wall by the left hand door commemorates that William Murdock, Boulton and Watt's Chief Engineer, lived there following his return from Cornwall.

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Murdock, William Handsworth Foundry Road Cottages 1939 - 1945 (World War II)

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Image courtesy of: Local Studies and History Department

Donor ref:Warwickshire Photographic Survey/ 0309 WKH5 0173 (3/892)

Source: Local Studies and History Department

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