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stefanovic said:
That flag is proudly flown all over the Black Country (no one knows where it begins and ends) but it's misleading to put a chain on there because each town had their own product, like Stourbridge manufactured glass.
Cradley is a small place today but the sign proudly displays 'Welcome to Cradley, home of chain making.'
That's not Cradley Heath.
Very confusing I know. So a chain is not really a great symbol for the Black Country.
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Congratulations! A post that's seemingly accurate and not polluted by drivel like most of your others! Keep up the good work!
FWIW, I'd sooner a variety of the sort of goods that Black Country produced/produces was included on the flag. So symbols of Chain, Glass, Anvil? and Coal to include previous industries rather than just current ones.
 
stefanovic said:
Loved the opening ceremony last night and especially the bull. I hear it's now been moved to Victoria Square.
Prince Charles said Birmingham is a pioneering city.
More than that it was built on ingenuity and it unleashed the industrial revolution.
So give thanks to Birmingham we are not still living in the seventeenth century.
A brief mention by the BBC commentator that chains made there were used in the slave trade.
That's a reference to Cradley the chain making town near Halesowen. A chain appears on the Black Country flag so it might be better to remove it.
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Let's not forget Ironbridge ??
 
upsidedown said:
Let's not forget Ironbridge ??
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It certainly brings in the customers to see the world's first iron bridge and visit the museums, but it may not be the place where the industrial revolution began and a period in history called the Anthropocene.

That accolade might go to Dudley because that was where a Newcomen steam pump was used to extract water from mines and trigger the modern world.
Mines were flooded but coal has 10 times more locked in energy from the sun than wood.
The problem was getting at the coal. Not much is known about Thomas Newcomen from Devon but he sure changed the world.
Travel to Dudley today and it's built over, but beneath reveals an astonishing geological history.

Birmingham is getting carried away now. They might bid for the Olympics. Just one failed attempt so far (1992).
 
Indeed Dudley and Ironbridge are for ever linked as that's where Abraham Darby was born but it was in Coalbrookdale where he mastered smelting iron https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Ironbridge/

Ironbridge is a great place to visit with some excellent pubs/restaurants as well as all the tourist attractions, tests your legs as a cyclist though ;):ROFLMAO:

Great to see all the crowds out for the Triathlon yesterday
 
Sounds like a terrible crash at the velodrome. Hope the riders and spectators involved are ok. I'm amazed there aren't more of them but wonder if the standard from some nations and lack of experience could be an issue?
 
Shame to see Peaty lose but was always going to be a tough swim after being out for so long - but great to see Wilby win , Peaty also showing such humility in defeat

Aussies have been outstanding in the pool so far
 
Was at the swimming yesterday and today it was 3x3 basketball, including wheelchair events. Great atmosphere and some great matches, 3x3 is so fast with games lasting a max of 10 minutes or first to 21 points. Loving everything in Birmingham this week and can’t wait for the athletics for the rest of the week
 
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stefanovic said:
Loved the opening ceremony last night and especially the bull. I hear it's now been moved to Victoria Square.
Prince Charles said Birmingham is a pioneering city.
More than that it was built on ingenuity and it unleashed the industrial revolution.
So give thanks to Birmingham we are not still living in the seventeenth century.
A brief mention by the BBC commentator that chains made there were used in the slave trade.
That's a reference to Cradley the chain making town near Halesowen. A chain appears on the Black Country flag so it might be better to remove it.
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Ironbridge may disagree with that.
 
stefanovic said:
Loved the opening ceremony last night and especially the bull. I hear it's now been moved to Victoria Square.
Prince Charles said Birmingham is a pioneering city.
More than that it was built on ingenuity and it unleashed the industrial revolution.
So give thanks to Birmingham we are not still living in the seventeenth century.
A brief mention by the BBC commentator that chains made there were used in the slave trade.
That's a reference to Cradley the chain making town near Halesowen. A chain appears on the Black Country flag so it might be better to remove it.
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There is no definitive starting trigger of the industrial revolution! It was a general move in many places, including Cornwall.
As a major 'sweatshop' environment even back then, the Midlands was an obvious place to harness the inventions that made the industrial revolution possible.
Denial of history that isn't politically correct is obscene - and likely to allow similar/equivalent to be repeated!
 
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