The Soho Manufactory was an early factory, opening in Soho, Birmingham, England by Matthew Boulton in 1761.
The manufactory produced a wide range of goods from buttons, buckles and boxes to japanned ware , and later luxury products such as silverware and ormolu (a type of gilded bronze).
It was also home to the first steam-powered mint.
In the 1990s, the television archaeology programme "Time Team" excavated the site.
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