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1210306. Construction started. 1900. Completed. 1908. The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, or colloquially Old Joe, is a clock tower and campanile located in Chancellor's court at the University of Birmingham, in the suburb of Edgbaston. It is the tallest free-standing clock tower in the world, [1] although its actual height is the ...
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) [8] [9] is a public research university in Birmingham, England.It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English civic or 'red brick ...
The Lapworth Museum of Geology is a geological museum run by the University of Birmingham and located on the university's campus in Edgbaston, south Birmingham, England. The museum is named after the geologist Charles Lapworth, its origins dating back to 1880. [1] It reopened in 2016 following a £2.7 million redevelopment project that created ...
It is located in grounds in the conservation area of Edgbaston, Birmingham, [1] and is a grade II listed building. [2] The name 'University House' was originally given to a rented building on Hagley Road in 1904. The present building was constructed in 1908 as a residence for female students at the university. Margery Fry was UH's first warden ...
Perrott's Folly. Coordinates: 52.4744°N 1.9312°W. Perrott's Folly. Perrott's Folly, grid reference SP047862, also known as The Monument, or The Observatory, is a 29-metre (96-foot) tall tower, built in 1758. It is a Grade II* listed building in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm". The personal name Ecgbald means "bold sword" (literally "bold edge"). The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book [3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.
The University of Birmingham Medical School is one of Britain's largest and oldest medical schools with over 400 medical, 70 pharmacy, 140 biomedical science and 130 nursing students graduating each year. [2] It is based at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Since 2008, the medical school is a constituent of ...
Birmingham. Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Preet Gill, a Labour Co-op MP. [n 2] The most high-profile MP for the constituency was former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1937–1940). Since 1953 it has elected a succession of female MPs.