In the 90s, business was buoyant in the Britpop boom and the Swordfish label was able to fund releases by several underground and avant-garde artists. The High Street is now pedestrianised and one of Birmingham's most important shopping streets with major stores and a shopping mall, the Pavilions which was built in 1988 after the economic The Big Top at the corner of New Street and the High Street completed in 1959, was Birmingham's first purpose-built shopping centre. Shops front New Street and the High Street, with arcades Ida B. Wells, ‘Lynch Law in the United States: to the Editor of the Daily Post’ Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, 14 May 1894) < https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ibwells-0008-008-04.pdf> accessed 29 October 2017. faced with Anglesey stone. The front entrance has eight fluted columns, the sides fifteen; the original plan intended only thirteen, but Edge extended it to include the organ recess. At St

Since the Middle Ages the centre of Birmingham has been subject to constant change, new buildings gradually replacing their predecessors. Nothing has been discovered of the Anglo-Saxon village, settlement here. There was, however, ample medieval evidence in the immediate area: traces of boundary banks and ditches, houses, cattle and a variety of industries. Victoria Square, the heart of the civic centre of Birmingham, is now the place from which distances to the city are measured. First into view on the approach from New Street is a statue known as

In 1893 and 1894, Wells participated in two speaking tours of Great Britain where she appealed to the morality of English society to denounce and condemn the atrocities occurring in the United States. [11] On May 17 th, 1894, Wells spoke in Birmingham at both the Young Men’s Christian Assembly in Needless Alley (New Street) and at Central Hall on Corporation Street. She also stayed at 66 Gough Road in Edgbaston. [12] Despite being well received by the press and British audiences, there remained those who questioned what “practical object can be attained” by having these meetings. [13] Writing to the Birmingham Daily Post, a City Councillor protested “against being expected to give [his] attention to matters of a municipal detail in a civilized country at a great distance” where “any interference…by English people would be an impertinence.” [14] In her response, Wells cites the work done by British moral agencies who “did much for the final overthrow of chattled slavery” as indication of the power of this “superior civilization” to affect change in America. [15] while attempting to rescue General Gordon in 1882; a plain marble obelisk is a monument by Peter Hollins to Lt Col Thomas Unett who was killed in 1855 at the Battle of Sebastopol; a memorial to church was surrounded to the north and west and east by fields and orchards. These would soon make way for the elegant town houses of the wealthy were moving from the lower part of the industrial

which has been contracted to Brum since Victorian times. Why the name Birmingham finally took precedence over Brummagem remains a matter of debate. The problem of the markets area was its own success. By the end of the 18th century, both wholesale and retail market traders vied with one another for space here and spilled out along the High A charter had been granted for a weekly market in the town centre in 1166 and then, in 1259, approval was given for another market to be held at Ascensiontide - the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday. The central public area was refurbished in 1998 as part of the project to break through the Inner Ring Road when the elevated section of Priory Queensway was dismantled. A large relief panel of

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for 120 years. As the leases expired in 1818 building began at the New Street end of the estate. Bennetts Hill developments began in the early 1820s with a variety of elegant town houses, banks When first opened time it was much admired, though men and women sat separately in its early days, leading some wit to pen the following:

When Corporation Street is finished, and its pathways nicely shaded with green-leaved trees, it will doubtless be not only the chief business street of the town, but also the most popular On the other hand, “it was death to the colored man who yield[ed] to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.” [18] White women were viewed as quintessentially moral and virtuous. Notions of submissiveness and frailty facilitated the rise of the Southern white hero chivalrously defending the honor of Southern women. Southern white males essentially undermined white women’s sexual autonomy by dictating the appropriateness of their sexual partner.within Steelhouse Lane Conservation Area and with the Methodist Central Hall forms part of a nationally important group of Victorian terracotta buildings. It no longer exists but there is today a Jennens Road running alongside Millennium Point, Birmingham City University and the Thinktank science museum. The erection of this free church confers great credit on the town, as the want of such accommodation was very apparent, from the increased population; and this is manifest by its being so

Among the acts who have made in-store appearances at Swordfish are The Lilac Time, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, The Kooks, Razorlight, Mark Ronson, Duran Duran, The Wonder Stuff and Lenny Kravitz. his sisters: Birmingham, Little Barr, Perry and the Barony of Dudley went to Margaret, the wife of John de Sutton whose descendants as Suttons or Dudleys continued to hold the overlordship of Likewise another House in the same Street in the tenure of Mr. George Orton, with large Shops, Gardens, and Summer-House, pleasantly situated, commanding a good Prospect; and set at nine Pounds seriously. The innocent dead are remembered by memorial in the churchyard of St Philip's Cathedral. Fans of Pre-Raphaelite artwork will be delighted to discover that there are several examples of the Victorian Burne-Jones stained glass windows are to be found within Birmingham Cathedral.Wells is clearly alluding to the “appreciation of white Juliets for colored Romeos.” [8] As a result, a mob destroyed the Free Speech and threatened to lynch Wells should she return. It was this event which served as an instrumental element in her speaking tour. By presenting accounts of lynchings, not merely through her experience and observances, but through the white Southern press, Wells legitimized these “Southern horrors” [9] as an objective truth and not merely sensationalistic narrative. [10] valley of the Tame to settle on the lighter soils of the Birmingham sandstone ridge. It is impossible to ascertain whether a leader called Beorma founded a settlement here, or whether it was see the result of this improvement, and hear the blessings which will then be showered upon the Council of 1875, which had the courage to inaugurate this scheme. The bells were recast by Gillett & Johnston of Croyden as a 12 in 1937 ready for the Coronation of King George VI and hung in a new cast iron bell frame with an additional frame above. Work This was a small manor even by local standards with a population of perhaps only fifty people and a taxable value of only 20 shillings. Much of the manor was heathland of little value at that