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A Stranger’s Guide is the second of the five history galleries and focuses on the period between 1700 and 1830. It presents this period as a travel guide for the first-time visitor, offering advice on the best places to stay, work, spend your leisure time and even highlights the many local people you are likely to encounter, including the likes of John Baskerville and Matthew Boulton. [7]
By the Gains of Industry – Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 1885–1985, Stuart Davies, ISBN 0-7093-0131-6. Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield, George T. Noszlopy, edited Jeremy Beach, 1998, ISBN 0-85323-692-5. Historic England. "Council House, City Museum and Art Gallery and Council House extension (1210333)".
The Saltley Handaxe illustrated by John Evans in 1897. The oldest human artefact found within Birmingham is the Saltley Handaxe: a 500,000-year-old brown quartzite hand axe about 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, discovered in the gravels of the River Rea at Saltley in 1892.
Newman Brothers at The Coffin Works is a museum in the Newman Brothers Coffin Furniture Factory building in the Jewellery Quarter conservation area in Birmingham, England. The museum educates visitors about the social and industrial history of the site, which operated from 1894–1998 as a coffin furniture factory.
Birmingham and its surrounding area. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The population of the city increased from 5-7,000 in 1700 to nearly 24,000 in 1750, and by 1775 the population was about 40,000, making Birmingham the third largest town in the UK after London and Bristol. In 1791, Arthur Young described Birmingham as "the first manufacturing town in the world".
A national chain that offers furniture, home decor, accessories and other items has set a date for the opening of its latest Midlands store. HomeGoods is set to open a store at 4840 Forest Drive ...
The Ikon Gallery (grid reference) is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed , neo-Gothic former Oozells Street Board School , designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877.