Ye Olde Der-yat-end

Birmingham and the Industrial Revolution – ‘In Tudor times both banks of the Rea were filled with water mills and the workmen of Digbeth, Deritend and the nearby boroughs of Rea used the water wheels to turn the early machines.’ An odd but informative blog post by Katie West about ancient Birmingham.

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2 Responses to Ye Olde Der-yat-end

  1. Andy Mabbett says:

    That seems to be a cut&paste dump from:

    http://www.digitalezines.com/education/birmingham-and-the-industrial-revolution.html

    although with errors introduced.

  2. Cheers, have changed the link.

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