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Acocks Green is an area of south Birmingham. It is named after the Acock family who built a large house in the area in 1370. Acocks Green is one of the four wards making up Yardley district....
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Aston Manor Road Transport Museum houses a collection of historic and classic vehicles and related exhibits that will bring back memories of a bygone era. See how transport in the Midlands has...
Aston Villa Football Club (also known as The Villa, Villa and The Villans) is an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League.
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Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham. It is home to a diverse cultural mix including Afro-Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Irish and English, and the home of the Balti...
Lots of bands come from Birmingham and the Birmingham area. The list below shows just some of them (click on links for more details):
Black Sabbath
Cracked Actors
Cupid Stunt
G B H
The Beat
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Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
Birmingham is the largest of England's core cities, and is sometimes considered to be the second city of the United...
Birmingham Conservation Trust is a charity which exists "to preserve and enhance Birmingham's threatened architectural heritage and to promote an enjoyment and understanding of the city's historic...
Welcome to BirminghamLives…
An exciting and ground-breaking collection based on the Carl Chinn Birmingham People’s History Archive. Bringing together a growing collection of thousands of...
The Birmingham Mail is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, UK but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, Solihull, Warwickshire and parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. The...
Birmingham as seen on Flickr.
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Black Sabbath are a rock band from Birmingham. Formed in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of...
Bordesley Green is an inner-city area of Birmingham, about two miles south-east from the city centre. It is also a ward in the formal district of Hodge Hill. Neighbouring areas include, Alum Rock,...
Bromwicham is an old - possibly Saxon - name for Birmingham. The name, Bromwich, still survives to this day in different respects:-
Brummie: the nickname for people from Birmingham is probably...
Buddhist Meditation classes - East Birmingham: Shard End
Wed 3rd Jun '09 - Wed 8th Jul '09
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Shard End, East Birmingham
Class Cost: £5
Course Cost: £30
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Found this on Flickr the other day
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LOADS of great photos of Brum - mostly featuring buses.
Castle Bromwich is a suburb situated within the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English county of West Midlands. It is bordered by the rest of the borough to the south...
Castle Vale is an area of the City of Birmingham originally created as an overspill estate in the 1960s.
History
The area was a flat plain when it became Castle Bromwich Playing Fields. It was then...
Chelmsley Wood is a neighbourhood and large housing estate in the North of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, it is located near Birmingham International Airport and the National Exhibition...
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Cracked Actors formed in Sept. 1999 as a seven piece, and became their present nine piece by late 2000.
The Actors are played by: -
2 Tall Tim a.k.a. Tim Bamford the Yorkshire Massive, on keyboards...
Cupid Stunt are a punk band from Birmingham. The band was formed in 2001. They play a 'classy' mix of punk and ska and dub tunes.
They are 3 women and 1 man. Or they were when I last saw...
Digbeth is an area of Birmingham, England. The area around Digbeth and Deritend was the first centre of industry in Birmingham and became one of the most heavily industrialised areas in the...
GBH is a punk band. Formed by vocalist Collin Abrahall, guitarist Colin 'Jock' Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy, and drummer Andrew Williams in 1978. GBH were early pioneers of English hardcore punk,...
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Handsworth (grid reference SP035905) is an inner city suburb of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England.
The Local Government Act 1894 divided the ancient Staffordshire parish of Handsworth into...
Now over 40* years old, the Society still has more than 250 members, at least eight meetings and one outing each year, and the Old Town Hall is open for one or two days every month.
Unfortunately,...
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The International Convention Centre (abbreviated to ICC) is a major conference venue in central Birmingham, England. The centre includes Symphony Hall and it faces Centenary Square. The building...
Kings Heath is a suburb of Birmingham, three miles south of the city centre. It is the next suburb south from Moseley on the Alcester Road.
History
Kings Heath came into being as a village in the...
Kingshurst is a post war housing estate and parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. It lies about nine miles (14 km) east of Birmingham city centre. The Smith's Wood area of Chelmsley...
Kings Norton derives its name from the Norman period, meaning 'north farmland or settlement' belonging to or held by the king, when Kings Norton was part of the King's forest in the district of...
Ladywood is an inner-city area in Birmingham, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Ladywood ward and the wards of...
Celebrating the unique industrial history of BIRMINGHAM and SMETHWICK - The website is over 3 years old and has received over 300,000 visitors!
"Birmingham was not only known as the workshop of the...
Moseley is a suburb of Birmingham, two miles south of the city centre. In recent years it has seen the creation of a number of new bars and restaurants. The area also has a number of boutiques and...
Birmingham born, Nathan Jolly is the newly-acclaimed writer and broadcaster to join the Birmingham Mail.
Hospital Radio
Nathan Jolly is a hospital radio broadcaster known for his fast-paced,...
Nechells is an area in inner-city Birmingham, with a population of 27,969 (as of 2001). It is also a ward within the formal district of Ladywood. Nechells includes parts of the city centre. It is...
A website with all sorts of information, photos and resources about the Ladywood area of Birmingham.
http://www.oldladywood.co.uk/
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A website with lots of photos, resources and other material relating to Winson Green in Birmingham:
http://www.ted.rudge.btinternet.co.uk/_winson_green.htm
Well worth a visit if you know the...
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The Market Tavern
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If you have a keen interest in local history and in the Birmingham region's railway history - this is the site for you. (Although the site is 'Rail Around Birmingham' the site extends to cover...
The River Cole is one of three rivers which flows through Birmingham proper. After flowing through Birmingham, it passes Coleshill - to which it gave its name - and it then joins the River Blythe,...
The River Rea (pronounced "ray") is a small river which passes through the heart of Birmingham. The name of the river derives from a root found in many Indo-European languages and means "to run" or...
The River Tame rises in Wolverhampton, flows from the Black Country, through north Birmingham, past Tamworth (which takes its name from the river), and into the River Trent near Alrewas. The name...
Shard End is an area of Birmingham and a ward within the formal district of Hodge Hill. Shard End borders the village of Castle Bromwich to the north and Kingshurst to the east.
History
Before the...
Short Heath is an area of Erdington, Birmingham. Looking at Short Heath on an Ordnance Survey Landranger map it appears no less smaller or unimportant than neighbouring areas such as Boldmere,...
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South Yardley is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham. The name of the ward was changed from Acocks Green Ward and with the name change, the boundary changed with Acocks Green village and...
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Sutton Coldfield is a town within the City of Birmingham. Sutton (as it is often abbreviated to) is located about 13 km (8 miles) from central Birmingham, in the northeast of the city, and has...
The Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in Birmingham in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical...
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HOG
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The Market Tavern is a large Victorian Pub in Digbeth. It is also Birmingham's only regular Punk venue.
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Taken from the BBC site this is the report of the incident.
1974: Birmingham pub blasts kill 19
"Bombs have devastated two central Birmingham pubs, killing 19 people and injuring over 180.
"Police...
The Rio Grande - or just 'The Rio' - was the venue for the best rock night of the 1970's.
It was a part of the Yew Tree pub, in Yardley. But now both the Rio and the Yew Tree have gone. And where...
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Water Orton is a village near the River Tame in the North Warwickshire borough of Warwickshire in England. It is located between Castle Bromwich and Coleshill, and borders east...
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Winson Green is a loosely-defined area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England. It is part of the ward of Soho.
It is the location of HM Prison Birmingham (known locally as Winson Green...
Wylde Green is a residential area in Birmingham, just to the south of Sutton Coldfield
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In the 16th century, this area of barren common land was known as the Wyld and was sparsely populated....
Yardley is an area in east Birmingham. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee.
Yardley's main shopping area is known as Yew Tree, named after the yew that stood on...
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