Talk and Tour of Soho House, Birmingham

On the 28th July 2011 starting at 19.00, the Lunar Society Summer Social was held at Soho House , Birmingham.

Soho House was the elegant home of industrialist and enterpreneur Matthew Boulton from 1766 to 1809. Carefully restored, this fashionable Georgian house features period room interiors with fine collections of ormolu, silver, furniture and paintings. Soho House was once a regular meeting place for some of the greatest minds of the 18th century. Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was a founding member of the Lunar Society, a group of great thinkers and inventors who met regularly at his home at Soho House. Boulton’s guests included James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph Priestley. The tour covered the elegant Dining Room, which was a regular venue for meetings of the famous Lunar Society and the displays of silver and ormolu produced in the Soho Foundry – one of the first factories in the world. Examples of the first coinage produced by the Soho Mint Factory was also on display.