View of the Soho Manufactory from Soho Pool by John Phillp
This watercolour by John Phillp is looking across the Soho or Hockley Pool to the Soho Manufactory.
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). ...
View of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham
From the Monthly Magazine number 17. The factory was finished in 1765 at a cost of £9,000, and by 1769 employed 700 people making toys, trinkets and silver plate. In 1788 a Coining Mill was erected and ...
View of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham
The factory was finished in 1765 at a cost of £9,000, and by 1769 employed 700 people making toys, trinkets and silver plate. In 1788 a Coining Mill was erected and this mint made 40,000 coins per hour....
View of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham
The factory was finished in 1765 at a cost of £9,000, and by 1769 employed 700 people making toys, trinkets and silver plate. In 1788 a Coining Mill was erected and this mint made 40,000 coins per hour....
Waggon & Horses, Soho Road
The Waggon and Horses Inn was originally built about 1700 and demolished in 1870. Handsworth Council House and Public Library were erected on the site in 1877.
In 1780 this was the place where James ...
Wallpaper found at Soho House
This wallpaper was found in the Drawing Room at Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton. It was behind a large sheet of lead which had been placed there in the nineteenth century, presumably in ...
Watercolour of a dog by John Phillp
This watercolour of a dog is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Watercolour of a moonlit seascape by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour of a spaniel's head by John Phillp
This watercolour of a dog's head by John Phillp may show Dash, the favourite dog of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). It is labelled drawn from nature by John Phillp 1796.
The ...
Watercolour of an old key belonging to Matthew Boulton by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour of Garden Temple by John Phillp
This watercolour shows a garden building which is almost certainly the Temple of Flora on the Shell Pool at Soho, the landscaped garden created by industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton.
This ...
Watercolour of variegated holly by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Weymouth Pine by John Phillp
This watercolour by John Phillp is labelled 'done on the spot, sketch of a Weymouth Pine'.
It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp ...
Weymouth Pine by John Phillp
This pencil drawing is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He ...
William Booth's Grave at St. Mary's Church
William Booth was a forger who operated from Booth's Farm. Most of his business was said to be conducted from Lichfield and the Hare and Hounds Public House in West Bromwich. Booth was arrested at Booth's ...
William Murdoch by an unknown artist
Murdoch (1754-1839) worked as an engineer for the firm of Boulton and Watt in Handsworth. For a time he represented the company's interests in Cornwall, where he "invented" gas powered lighting for which ...
William Murdock - Inventor of Gaslight
Article from the Daily Graphic about William Murdock's experiments in Redruth. Murdock worked as an engineer for the firm of Matthew Boulton and James Watt in Handsworth, but for some years he represented ...
William Murdock commemorative plaque in Redruth Cornwall
This plaque, erected by the Tangye Brothers of Handsworth Birmingham, is on the side of William Murdock's house in Redruth. Murdock was an engineer and worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watt. He will ...