Today's testing and measurement website hotspot is Stourbridge.
The
town is famous for its glass making, and was formerly in the county of
Worcestershire, although it's now part of the metropolitan borough of
Dudley, in the West Midlands. A fairly large town, with a population
approaching 60,000, Stourbridge is on the edge of the industrial
midlands, with easy access to unspoilt countryside to the west and
southwest. Rural Shropshire and the Clent Hills are close by.
Stourbridge
glass has been manufactured since the early 1600s, encouraged by the
availability of coal and fireclay locally, and the arrival in the area
of Huguenot glassmakers escaping persecution in France. The industry
reached its peak in the 19th century.
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