Provinces of England; a Study of Some Geographical Aspects of Devolution
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During the war it has been the headquarters of the West Midland Divisions set up for various purposes under the Defence of the Realm Act, and so it Has THE PROVINCIAL CAPITALS 87 been "practically recognized as being in some respects the capital of that region. In this region Birmingham was the chief seat of certain metal industries, a position to which it rose gradually in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor Period. Its possession of deposits of a fine sand suitable for cas...ting and its position near the Forest of Arden favoured its metal- working when charcoal was the chief fuel, and when coal replaced charcoal the town found itself near the chief coalfield of the West Midlands, so near that the cost of carriage, on the roads and canals then coming into existence placed no serious check on its continued' growth. It was, also favoured in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the absence of the restrictions of a medieval corporate borough, a result of its previous insignificance.
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