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Smethwick


Staffordshire town, 6 miles E of Birmingham centre.

This town was well known from the 19th century to the late 1970s for its industry, based around engineering and glassmaking.

The novelist Len Webster (1948 - ) was born in Smethwick.

Location map of Smethwick courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk


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