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Soho Manufactory

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

A factory site near Birmingham, built by Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill between 1762 and 1765.

The site was designed by the architect William Wyatt. Boulton was originally a “toy maker”, in other words, a manufacturer of inexpensive decorative metal wares such as buckles, buttons or watch chains. Later he partnered with James Watt to build Watt’s “steam engines”. Fischer visited the Soho Manufactory on 27 and 28 August 1814.

See organisation: Boulton & Watt.

Note about the map: The coordinates of the site are not known. For the localisation they were derived from the context.

Traveljournal 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Traveljournal 1851

  • Henderson, William O.: Johann Conrad Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England 1814-1851. London 1966, S. 68.
  • Henderson, W. O.: J. C. Fischers Reisen durch die Industriegebiete Englands 1814–1851. In: Tradition - Zeitschrift für Firmengeschichte und Unternehmensbiographie 1964, S. 128f.
  • Loggie, Val: Picturing Soho: Images of Matthew Boulton’s Manufactory. In: Shena Mason (Hrsg.): Matthew Boulton: Selling what all the world desires. New Haven/London 2009, S. 23-30.

Cite as: Soho Manufactory. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1723, viewed on 7 June 2025.

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Soho Manufactory near Birmingham, belonging to Messrs. Boulton and Watt (artist unknown, 1830)