ABSTRACT
Soho was the site of a great variety of industrial enterprises which had developed from the old hardware business of Boulton & Fothergill and, to some extent, had grown through the influence of the new engine business and the new partner. If we allow ourselves to advance chronologically on our main theme, we shall find in the year 1800 a most impressive list of various styles of businesses concerned in the manufacture of various metal goods. These were all carried on at Soho, and were enterprises in which the ever active Boulton held an important share, even if they were not altogether actually his own creation. The following list, given by a contemporary writer,1 is worth quoting in full :
success without any assistance from Boulton would have been doubtful.
