The site was later used by the GKN company. The company was bankrupted in 1855 by the failure of an overseas railway to pay for work done. His notable employees included William Siemens, the notable mechanical and electrical engineer. This was founded by Charles Fox, whose inventions included the first patented railway points. One notable company was The London Works, manufacturing base of the Fox Henderson Company which made the steel framework for the Crystal Palace. It is now at Thinktank, the new science museum in Birmingham. The world's oldest working engine, made by Boulton and Watt, the Smethwick Engine, originally stood near Bridge Street, Smethwick. Harborne became part of the county borough of Birmingham and thus transferred from Staffordshire to Warwickshire in 1891, leaving Smethwick in the County of Staffordshire. Until the end of the 18th century it was an outlying hamlet of the south Staffordshire village of Harborne. Smethwick was recorded in the Domesday Book as Smedeuuich, the d in this spelling being the Anglo-Saxon letter eth.
It was suggested that the name Smethwick meant "smiths' place of work", but a more recent interpretation has suggested the name means "the settlement on the smooth land".
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Street nameplate on Rutland Road, Smethwick in April 2007, showing painted out "County Borough" lettering, and the original B17 district code
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