Knowledge Organiser Year 6 Topic 1

Knowledge Organiser Year 6 Topic 1 My local area - What industrial and Commercial landmarks and events have shaped our local area? What should I already know? Key Vocabulary The black country gained its Black Country is the area where the Word Definition name in the mid-nineteenth coal seam comes to the surface - so centaury because of the smoke West Bromwich, Oldbury, Black- A forcible overthrow of a from the iron foundries. heath, Cradley Heath, Old Hill, Revolution government or social Bilston, Dudley, Tipton, order, in favour of a new Dudley is known for its very own Wednesfield and parts of Halesow- Zoo and Castle. en, Wednesbury and Walsall, A broad term to describe The black country built the Stourbridge and Smethwick or all aspects of industry or a world’s first successful steam what used to be known as Warley. company engaged engine. Industrial in industry through the Key Facts manufacture of products, such The Black Country is an area of as industrial workers, the West Midlands, England, west of Birmingham[2] and commonly refers A building or group of to a region of more than one million buildings where goods are Key Facts people covering most of the Factories manufactured or four Metropolitan assembled chiefly by The anchor for the Titanic was made in machine. Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall Netherton near Dudley, by the local firm and Wolverhampton.[3] During Hingley's. It was transported from it's A hard, strong grey or the Industrial Revolution, it became factory to Dudley Train Station in May bluish-grey alloy of iron one of the most industrialised parts of 1911, from where it travelled onto the Steel with carbon and usually other elements, used as a the UK with coal mines, coking, ill-fated ship. structural and fabricating iron foundries, glass factories, brickworks and steel mills producing a high level of air Relating to or denoting a Metropolitan pollution. metropolis or large city. A workshop or factory for Iron foundry Key Facts casting iron or iron alloys. The presence in or The Black Country produced great introduction into the inventors, philanthropists, authors, Key Facts environment of a Pollution artists and industrialists. Here are the substance which has names of some of them; The geology of the Black Country has harmful or poisonous been very important in shaping its histo- Jerome K Jerome (1859-1927) effects. ry. The natural resources found under Economic activity Sir James Timmins Chance the ground have brought wealth to the concerned with the (1814-1902) area for hundreds of years. Limestone processing of raw layers were laid down millions of years Industry materials and ago when the area was part of a shallow manufacture of goods in sea. The shells of millions of tiny crea- factories. tures compacted to form the limestone. Coal was formed from the remains of An excavation in the earth prehistoric trees. Fossil remains such as Mines for extracting coal or ammonites, corals and trilobites other minerals. .

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