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Taken during Birmingham Zombie Walk 2012 (which I why I had my camera out.) Dude proposed in the middle of the High Street. No sooner had she said yes than a horde of zombies marched around the corner as part of the fundraiser for Birmingham Children's Hospital. As far as I could tell it was a total coincidence and they weren't expecting zombies, but it did make the proposal memorably surreal.
Does anybody know who the couple is?
Birmingham (Listeni/ˈbɜrmɪŋəm/, locally /ˈbɜrmɪŋɡəm/) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with 1,085,400 residents (2012 estimate),[2] and its population increase of 88,400 residents between 2001 and 2011 was greater than that of any other British local authority.[3] The city lies within the West Midlands Built-up Area, the third most populous built-up area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,440,986 (2011 census).[4] Birmingham's metropolitan area is the United Kingdom's second most populous with 3,683,000 residents.[5]
A medium-sized market town during the medieval period, Birmingham grew to international prominence in the 18th century at the heart of the Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw the town at the forefront of worldwide developments in science, technology and economic organisation, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society.[6] By 1791 it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town in the world".[7] Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided a diverse and resilient economic base for industrial prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century.[8] Its resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of broad-based political radicalism, that under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy.[9]
Today Birmingham is a major international commercial centre, ranked as a beta− world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network;[10] and an important transport, retail, events and conference hub. Its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $114.3bn (2012 est., PPP),[11] and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education and academic research in the country outside London.[12] Birmingham's major cultural institutions – including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Library of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts – enjoy international reputations,[13] and the city has vibrant and influential grassroots art, music, literary and culinary scenes.[14]
People from Birmingham are called 'Brummies', a term derived from the city's nickname of 'Brum'. This originates from the city's dialect name, Brummagem,[15] which may in turn have been derived from one of the city's earlier names, 'Bromwicham'.[16] There is a distinctive Brummie accent and dialect.
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A strange incident in central Birmingham, large female sits on moped, moped falls and damages light on car, man comes out of nearby takeaway with a large machete, two people, one in a wheelchair reported injured, trouble breaks out in the crowd, female then starts banging her own head off the ground and then seen here being detained by police.
This incident resulted in armed police running down streets and also running from New Street station to the scene.
BTP and WMP AFO's attended as well as other WMP & BTP PC's and PCSO.
Who says psychical media is dead?
The new £188.8 million Library of Birmingham will open on Tuesday 3 September.
A view of downtown Birmingham, Alabama, just before landing into Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
The Hall of Memory
The Hall of Memory in Centenary Square, Birmingham, England, designed by S. N. Cooke and W. N. Twist, is a war memorial erected 1922–25, by John Barnsley and Son, to commemorate the 12,320 Birmingham citizens who died in World War I.
Built directly over a filled-in canal basin of Gibson's Arm, it was the first structure in an area (now occupied by Centenary Square and the International Convention Centre and Symphony Hall) purchased by the council for the creation of a grand civic scheme to include new council offices, the mayor's residence, a public library, and a concert hall. The scheme was abandoned after the arrival of World War II with only half of the planned Baskerville House having been built.
Made from Portland stone, from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, the foundation stone was laid by HRH The Prince of Wales on 12 June 1923 and it was opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught on 4 July 1925 to a crowd of 30,000. Construction had cost £60,000 and was funded through public donations. The four statues around the exterior are by local artist Albert Toft. They represent the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and Women's Services.
The interior features three carved bas-relief plaques (155 cm x 223 cm) by William Bloye representing three tableaux: Call (departure to war), Front Line (fighting), Return (arrival home of the wounded). These bear inscriptions:
OF 150,000 WHO ANSWERED THE CALL TO ARMS 12,320 FELL: 35,000 CAME HOME DISABLED
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
SEE TO IT THAT THEY SHALL NOT HAVE SUFFERED AND DIED IN VAIN +*+
There is also a roll of honour illustrated by Sidney Meteyard.
The hall was upgraded on 27 October 2014 to a Grade I listed building from its previous Grade II.
The colonnade, now in St. Thomas' Peace Garden
During the Birmingham Blitz, on the night of 11 December 1940, all but the fine tower and classical west portico of St. Thomas' Church, Bath Row, was destroyed by German bombs. The church was never rebuilt. The First World War Memorial colonnade, which had been built alongside the Hall of Memory in 1925, was relocated there when Centenary Square was laid out 1989. The gardens were re-designed as the St. Thomas' Peace Garden in 1995 in commermoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, as a monument to peace, and as a memorial to all those killed in armed conflict.
Birmingham Coach Co PTF751L seen near the Bull Ring Bus Station, Birmingham.
PTF730L-rt51(15V93)3462
Taken in February 1985 from St Martins House. The, then redundant, trackbed leading to Snow Hill Station can be seen along with the lines leading to New Street and of couse the historic Curzon Street Station building in the mid distance.
Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 transparency
A busy early evening scene at Birmingham International. A "ghost" Virgin Pendolino is on Platform 5, A Class 350 of Northwestern Railway on Platform four, A northbound Virgin Voyager on platform 2 and a terminating Transport for Wales / Keolis-MTR unit on Platform 1/
The Birmingham Mineral Railroad (BMAL or BMRR), sometimes called the Birmingham Mineral Branch, or the L & N Mineral Railroad was a common-carrier railroad line opened in 1884 by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad on Red Mountain and across Jones Valley, encircling the city of Birmingham. It was a branch of the North & South Alabama Railroad, one of the two trunk railroads whose crossing established the location for the founding of the city of Birmingham in 1871. (source: www.bhamwiki.com/w/File:Bham_Mineral_RR_1930.png)
