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Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham, Bull Ring: II* 1807–1809 Richard Westmacott: 17 & 19 Newhall Street: I 1896 Frederick Martin: 56-60 Newhall Street II* c. 1900 Thomas Walter Francis Newton & Alfred Edward Cheatle: St Chad's Cathedral: II* 1839–1841 Augustus Pugin: St Martin in the Bull Ring: II*
Museum or Bazaar, a building containing art and curiosities owned by James Bisset and visited by Horatio Nelson in 1802. Warwick House, Birmingham's first department store. [6] The Exchange - prominent commercial building which faced onto both New Street and Stephenson Place. It was opened in 1865, and demolished exactly a century later in 1965.
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The Saracen's Head, now part of Saint Nicolas Place The Old Grammar School. The Saracen's Head is the name formerly given to one of a group of late medieval buildings in Kings Norton, Birmingham. The buildings, together with the nearby Old Grammar School, won the BBC Restoration series in 2004. Following the restoration project, the Old Grammar ...
This bronze statue was the first publicly funded statue in Birmingham, and the first statue of Lord Nelson in Britain. It was made in 1809 by public subscription of £2,500 by the people of Birmingham following Nelson's visit to the town on 31 August 1802, the year before he sailed against the fleets of Napoleon.
King Edward Handsworth Grammar School is sometimes abbreviated as HGS. The headmaster is Mr T Johnson. [1] In September 2017, the school was admitted into the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI, where it was renamed King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys. [2] The school has five houses: Henry, William, Nelson, Galahad and ...
Most state secondary schools in Birmingham are comprehensive, but a number of historic grammar schools, among them Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Handsworth Grammar School and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls and the grammar schools of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI, survived the policy of moving to a comprehensive ...
23 October: Birmingham city council's 40,000th council house (on the Weoley Castle estate) is opened by prime minister Neville Chamberlain. [43] 27 November: The Birmingham Municipal Bank headquarters at 301 Broad Street are opened by Prince George. Cofton Park is acquired by Birmingham city council as a public open space. [44] 1934