Boulton, Watt and Murdock Statues
Sculpted by William Bloye and unveiled on September 14th 1956. The statues were paid for by Richard Wheatley, a leather goods manufacturer along with a contribution by the City Council. The statues are ...
Bust of William Murdock by James Watt
William Murdock (or Murdoch), the son of an Ayrshire mill designer, was born in 1754. Murdock had an excellent grasp of mechanics and, in 1777, he walked 300 miles to Birmingham to meet James Watt, in ...
Cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth
Row of cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth (now W & T Avery Ltd), including number 13 where William Murdock lived for a while. He had originally come to join Matthew Boulton in the Soho Manufactory in ...
Foundry Row, Handsworth
Workman's cottages in Foundry Row, Handsworth, once included in the boundary of the Soho Foundry. The house in the foreground is said to have been occupied by William Murdock in his early days with the ...
Gas Institute Commemorative medal, obverse
This is a test striking for a Gas Institute commemorative medal and is uniface (that is struck only on one side). It shows William Murdoch, the father of gas innovation. Murdoch worked for Boulton and ...
Gas Institute Commemorative medal, reverse
This is a test striking for a Gas Institute commemorative medal and is uniface (that is struck only on one side). It shows Perkin, Bunsen, Malam and Clegg below a gasometer.
The actual medal was ...
Sycamore Farm & William Murdock's House
This photograph shows Sycamore Farm (the buildings in the foreground), not visible, behind the farm is Alexandra Road and the house in the centre is the house once owned by William Murdock. The children ...
Sycamore Hill House, Handsworth
Sycamore Hill House, Handsworth, the residence of William Murdoch. From a photograph by Thomas Lewis
View of Sycamore Hill, Handsworth
Overlooking the Great Western Railway. The house stood to the west of Queen's Head Road and from it Sycamore Road gets its name. William Murdoch, the inventor of gas-lighting, lived here and conducted ...
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 ...
William Murdock memorial and others in St. Mary's Church
Murdock worked as a engineer for the firm of Boulton and Watt and will always be remembered for his discovery of the use of coal gas for lighting. Murdock is buried in St. Mary's Church along with Boulton ...
William Murdock's bedpost, Handsworth
One of the great bedposts which formed part of William Murdock's bed in Sycamore House, Handsworth. It stands about 6ft high and is carved out of oak.
William Murdock's House
William Murdock's house at Queen's Head Road, Handsworth.
William Murdock's House
Dwelling House built on Sycamore Hill, Queens Head Road, Handsworth,
and called ‘Fair House’, by William Murdock, the inventor of Coal Gas
for lighting purposes, and now used as a builder’s ...
William Murdock's house in Redruth Cornwall
In 1792 William Murdock heated coal in the garden of his house at Cross Street, Redruth and piped it into the house, where he lit a series of burners attached to the other end of the pipe. This was the ...
Workmen's Cottages in Foundry Road
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 ...