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BIRMINGHAM

Once known as “the workshop of the world” and “the city of 1,000 trades”, Birmingham was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. It developed from a small Anglo-Saxon hamlet to a market town in the 12th century. By 1791 it was the world’s first manufacturing town and by

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