Soho Manufactory

[2] In 1761 (or 1764[2]) the "toy" manufacturer Matthew Boulton and his business partner John Fothergill leased the site including a cottage and the mill.

The mill was replaced by a new factory, designed and built by the Wyatt family of Lichfield, and completed in 1766.

[3] The Manufactory produced a wide range of goods from buttons, buckles and boxes to japanned ware (collectively called "toys"), and later luxury products such as silverware and ormolu (a type of gilded bronze).

[2] In the 1990s the television archaeology programme Time Team excavated the foundations, in some of the local back gardens.

3, 1997) The Manufactory is featured on the Bank of England £50 note along with Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and the Whitbread Engine.