Birmingham IndustryWalking around Birmingham I looked at the abandoned factories. Although we were told that Birmingham was a large industrial center, these abandoned factories really caught my attention. Looking at these factories, I imagined smoke coming out of the chimneys, the sound of machines and people working and vans or trucks going in and out of the gates, but upon taking another look, all these things had disappeared and only an old building was abandoned. This made me wonder how these factories got here and why were these factories abandoned? A medieval market town It is 1166, a Norman lord of the manor, Peter de Birmingham, buys a royal charter from Henry II, this allows him to hold a market in his Birmingham castle, he uses this authority to charge tolls on traffic of the market. This project is known as Birmingham's first market. This small market was soon transformed into a successful market by its Norman lords. The region's agricultural trade focused on the city of Birmingham, which encouraged the development of agricultural industries. But before the success of the market, the colonies were dispersed. After the establishment of agricultural industries, these towns began to merge into one large city, Birmingham. With a large village and a busy market, it was necessary to build new roads to the market. Another idea of ​​the Norman lords was to lease land to merchants, this proved to be a great success and the market town only continued to grow. After twenty-three years, the town had received a name: “The City of Birmingham”. The market kept growing and so did the population, these things had a positive influence on each other, the larger the population the creation of new factories had to be prevented and some old factories had to be demolished. This enormous loss of factories and workers resulted in many buildings being abandoned. After a few years, when the industry and population were successfully reduced, some people moved (again) to Birmingham. But it was not and never will be the industrial center that it had been before.ConclusionMy conclusion is a lesson that can be learned from Birmingham's history: you can start with something small and with enough 'efforts, it will become great, but nothing will. last forever. With Birmingham, it started as a small market, but with enough effort it grew into a large industrial center, but it is not the center we know today, because it was "ruined » by interventions after the First and Second World Wars. But who knows? Maybe in 100 years it will be an industrial center again!