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Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham

29 September 2008

A city-centre street with a large tree, red-brick buildings on both sides, parked cars and people walking. — Whatlep, 29 September 2008. Wikimedia Commons (from Geograph) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Steelhouse Lane today. Somewhere on this street Samuel Garbett and John Roebuck ran their refinery and laboratory, where the first lead chamber for sulphuric acid was built in 1746.

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