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The police didn't take too kindly to me taking this photograph, and i was swiftly asked to "go away"
12.03.2011
The Birmingham Canal, completed in 1773, terminated at Old Wharf beyond Bridge Street. When the Worcester and Birmingham Company started their canal at a point later known as Gas Street Basin the Birmingham Canal Navigations Company (BCN) insisted on a physical barrier to prevent the Worcester and Birmingham Canal from benefiting from their water. The Worcester Bar, a 7 ft. 3 in. wide straight barrier 84 yards long was built perpendicular to the run of the two canals. Cargoes had to be laboriously manhandled between boats on either side.
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal opened between Birmingham and Selly Oak on 30 October 1795 but took until 1815 to complete to Worcester, at which time, after much lobbying by iron and coal masters and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal Company, an Act of Parliament was passed to open up the bar and the bar lock was built. There were toll offices either side of the bar lock and tolls were collected by each company from boats using the canals. The Worcester Bar still exists, with boats moored to both sides of it. It is connected to Gas Street via a footbridge reconstructed to a design by Horseley Ironworks of the 19th century.
For a couple of weeks each November the daybreak occurs at just the right time to make photographs of the dawn colours.
Alabama Power Company Building
The Alabama Power Company building in Birmingham in 1925, the year construction ended. Atop the building stands a 23-foot-tall bronze statue named Electra, which was erected in 1926. District NRHP
77 (OJ 9347)
Morris-Commercial Dictator/Metro-Cammell B--F
Preserved, ex Birmingham Corporation
Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, 30 May 2011
One of the oldest buses in the Aston Manor collection was this locally-built Morris Dictator delivered to Birmingham Corporation in 1933 and originally numbered 47 but later renumbered 77. It was withdrawn in 1945 and then spent many years as a static holiday home before being rescued for preservation. Good progress had been made on the restoration at Aston and it is hoped that it will find a new home where this massive task can continue.
A gazillion photo's of the bullring in birmingham whilst going round as big brother and his mate were in an Iron Maiden concert(which I'm so jealous of by the way) :)x
"Photograph of the Tame Valley from the castle motte in Castle Bromwich. The view is downstream. On the steep valley sides there are Parkhall woods, on the left Castle Vale estate. City of Birmingham refuse disposal works in Castle Bromwich. The photograph was taken in late 1968." - Phyllis Nicklin
(The M6 Motorway c1970 now runs from the bottom left of this picture to the top right. The motte and bailey are now virtually inaccessible as the Chelmley Collector Road runs along the right-hand side of the castle site which is now considerably more oevrgrown than shown here.)
The late Phyllis Nicklin was a geography tutor at the University of Birmingham who took hundreds of slides of the city during the 1960s. A selection of her work was put up on a website called Chrysalis, a joint venture of various West Midlands academic institutions.
Unfortunately the website no longer appears to be fully functioning, but I found some of it in the Internet Archive at web.archive.org/web/19960101000000-20070726172333/http://... and at 62.105.110.193/extras/public.bhtml?library=10032 or 62.105.110.193/search/results.bhtml?collection_id=10032 - no guarantees they’ll work!.
Copyright and database rights in this material belong to MLA West Midlands and the University of Birmingham. The University of Birmingham has kindly made its collections available to download and redistribute for non-commercial purposes. This is subject to the Terms and Conditions available via the Chrysalis Homepage: www.chrysalisinfo.org.uk.
Failing this, the best way to see a selection of the collection is via Keith Berry’s collection of photographs at www.pbase.com/beppuu.
PS Have you seen my ‘History of Birmingham Places & Placenames from A to Y’ at billdargue.jimdo.com ?
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.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham
168 219 approaches Mill Lane crossing, Dorridge with the 07.12 Birmingham Snow Hill - London Marylebone 24/03/2012
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a world class institution providing exceptional training for the musicians, actors, stage managers and performers of the future.
Our outstanding facilities attract the best and brightest students to Birmingham, along with internationally renowned performers and teachers.
With limitless collaboration opportunities for staff and students, the Conservatoire is a stimulating environment with an international reputation which celebrates diversity.
Birmingham Airport Y5BHX on Station Link Road, Birmingham International Railway Station
Photo taken by and copyright Noel Baxendale.
The nameplate of the only named Class 46 No 46026 LEICESTERSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE YEOMANRY at Birmingham New Street 31st March 1982.
Photo details
Colour Slide scan
Fuji 100ASA
Camera Canon AV1
Lens Canon 50mm
The church of St Martin in the Bull Ring is a parish church in the Church of England.
It is the original parish church of Birmingham. It stands between the Bullring shopping centre and the markets. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
The present Victorian church, built on the site of a 13th century church which was documented in 1263. The church was enlarged in medieval times and the resulting structure consisted of a lofty nave and chancel, north and south aisles and a northwest tower with spire.
In 1547, although no record is kept to indicate when the first clock appears in Birmingham, during this year the 'King's Commissioners report that the Guild of the Holy Cross are responsible 'ffor keeping the Clocke and the Chyme," at a cost of four shillings and four pence a year at St Martin's Church. The next recorded mention of a clock is in 1613, the earliest known clock makers in the town arrived in 1667 from London.
In 1690, the church-wardens "dressed the church in brick." All was cased in brick with the exception of the spire.
John Cheshire rebuilt 40 feet of the spire in 1781 and was strengthened by an iron spindle running up its centre at a length of 105 feet. It was secured to the sidewalls at every ten feet by braces.[1] In 1801, several metres from the top of the spire and were replaced after they were found to have decayed. The tops of the four pinnacles surrounding the main spire were also rebuilt.By 1808, the spire had been struck by lightning three times.
In 1853, the brick casing was removed from the tower by Philip Charles Hardwick, who added the open-air pulpit. The church also consisted of an organ, the reedwork of which had been done by John Snetzler. However, the pipes were found to be ineffective due to their proximity to the church roof and walls.
In 1873, the church was demolished and rebuilt by architect J.A. Chatwin in 1873, preserving an earlier tower and spire. During the demolition, medieval wall paintings and decorations were discovered in the chancel, including the charity of St Martin dividing his cloak with a beggar, and two painted beams were discovered behind the plaster ceiling. The exterior is built of rockfaced grimshill stone. The interior is of sandstone and an open timber roof.
The roof shows the influence of the great hammer beam roof of Westminster Hall. The beams are decorated with fine tracery and end in large carvings of angels. The roof weights 93 tons (94.5 tonnes), spans 22ft (6.7m) over the 100ft (30.4m) long nave and is 60ft (18.2m) high.
The floor tiles are Victorian Minton and display the quartered arms of the de Bermingham family.
From east to west the length of the church is 155ft., including the chancel, the arch of which rises to 60ft.; the width, including nave (25ft.) and north and south aisles, is 67ft.; at the transepts the width is 104ft.
The South Transept has a Burne-Jones window, made by William Morris in 1875. This window was taken down for safe keeping the day before a World War II bomb dropped beside the church on April 10, 1941, destroying all remaining windows.The West window is a 1954 copy of the Henry Hardman 1875 window destroyed in the Blitz.
As part of the Bull Ring development in 2003, the church was cleaned and repaired.