Old brewing town Wolverhampton is situated on the confluence of Coventry, Shropshire union and Staffordshire canals, historically key trade routes and the backbone of the early industrial revolution.

Evidence of this can be shown throughout Wolverhampton with many older buildings, Wolverhampton was home to a number of key breweries which over the years have dissolved or swollowed up by Banks's or Wolverhampton and Dudley the UK's largest brewer.

Other industries included:
Bicycle making: Over 200 factories between 1868 and 1975.
Lockmaking: Home to Chubb Locks. Security systems.
Enamelling Japanning: Supported early enamelling industry and 'Japanning' for luxury items to upper classes during the early industrial revolution.

Many of these industries have moved to more effective locations and Wolverhampton is now regarded as casaulty of the shifts in technology and global trade effecting, Coventry, Walsall, Dudley and many of the once burgeoning industries of the black country.