| Description | Soho Foundry. (12 items).
1453. Soho Foundry - Plans of the Site. 1795, 1796, 1800s, 1824, 1895. 12 items.
Coloured outline plan showing canal, wharf and outlines of surrounding plots of land (the Foundry has been pencilled in), not dated [circa 1795?].
Proposed plan of the Foundry - partially coloured drawing, not dated [ circa Sep. 1795].
Plan of the Foundry and surrounding land showing "Great Moor", "Little Moor", "Bridge Piece", "Troth's Close", with notes in the top right corner by Matthew Boulton, not dated [circa 1795-1796].
Plan of the Foundry and surrounding land showing "Lower Bridge Piece", "Great Moor", "Little Moor", "Mr. Wheatley's land" and "Troth's Closes", and with row of 27 houses pencilled in - partially coloured plan, not dated [1796 has been pencilled in the top left corner].
Plan of the Foundry, almost entirely in pencil, showing "Proposed extension of dock", "Yard for cylinders private to all except borers turners and enginemen", not dated [1790s].
Plan of the Foundry, with possible extensions pencilled in - partially shaded drawing, Jul. 1796.
Plan of the Foundry with possible extensions pencilled in - partially coloured plan with note of water levels on 13 Jul. 1795 attached, not dated [circa 1800].
Plan of the Foundry - partially coloured plan marked "suppose 1796" in the top right corner [circa 1800].
"Plan of Soho Foundry, Smethwick" (plan showing surround plots of land), not dated [circa 1808].
Map showing Soho Foundry, French Walls and plots of land to the South, land owned by G. Hurst, Henry P. Whateley, J. L. Moilliet, J. W. Unett, J. Reynolds and Mr. Rhodes - coloured plan with "year 1824" pencilled in the top right corner.
Outline plan showing canal arm, Pattern Makers' Shop, stable etc., circa 1859 [date taken from the water mark].
"Plan of Soho Foundry in May 1895" - coloured plan based on the plan in the Foundry Sale catalogue, May 1895. |