Editing Soho Foundry (section)

==Today==
It is now the home of [[Avery Weigh-Tronix]] and [[Avery Berkel]], who make [[weighing scale]]s. The site includes [[William Murdoch]]'s cottage and overlooks [[Black Patch Park]].

There was a small [[museum]] there, open only by appointment, but is now closed.

The [[grade II listed]] ''Pooley'' gates, of cast iron, are marked with "a Liver bird above ropework draped with cloth, flanked by nautical symbols including oars, flags and bugles, ships' wheels and intersecting dolphins". A plaque reads: "These gates were cast by [[Henry Pooley & Son Ltd|Henry Pooley and Son]] about 1840 for the Sailors' Home, Liverpool. The Avery and Pooley Foundries were amalgamated in 1931". There was an active campaign to return these gates to Liverpool,<ref name="SLHS">{{cite web|url=http://www.dumbleton-williams.fsnet.co.uk/NEWSPAGE.html|title=Smethwick Local History Society website}}</ref> resulting in the approval by Sandwell Council in March 2011 of an application to return them. After restoration the gates were returned to Liverpool on 8 August 2011 and were re-erected under the name "The Sailors Home Gateway" in the pedestrian section of Paradise Street in Liverpool One, close to the original site of the Sailors' Home.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14576433 BBC News - return of gates]</ref><ref>[http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/Culture/Architecture/Pooley-gates-return-to-Pool LiverpoolConfidential.com - return of gates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222225917/http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/Culture/Architecture/Pooley-gates-return-to-Pool |date=2012-02-22 }}</ref>

The building is a Grade II* [[listed building]]. The gates and adjacent canal bridge are Grade II listed.

The oldest working steam engine, built here, is the [[Smethwick Engine]] built to recover water used in the nearby [[lock (water transport)|canal locks]] at Smethwick Summit, and now in [[Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum]].