City of a thousand trades
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During the Industrial Revolution, Birmingham, England was known as the city of a thousand trades, or "workshop of the world", manufacturing everything from pins to motorcars.
Sometimes this would be altered to "city of a thousand and one trades".
In reality this term could be applied to many large British cities during the Industrial Revolution.
External Links
19th century Birmingham Trades (http://www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/engine/theme/default.asp?theme=348&text=0)
Associations of tradespeople in the city (http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/cosubresult.asp)