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  A History of Birmingham
The Old Crown House was built in the 14th century.
Birmingham Water Company was formed in 1826 to provide piped water to part of the town but citizens had to pay for this service and even where it was available many people could not afford it.
In 1873-75 Joseph Chamberlain was mayor of Birmingham.
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 Birmingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the UK, with a large population from the Caribbean, Indian sub-continent and from Ireland: according to the 2001 census, 29.7% of the population of Birmingham is non-white.
Birmingham was originally a small village, but by the 1300s had become the third largest town in Warwickshire, after Warwick and Coventry.
Birmingham's other city- centre music venues include The National Indoor Arena (NIA), CBSO Centre, Adrian Boult Hall (ABH) at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Birmingham Town Hall, which played host to many classical and popular music performances from the late 1800s, but which is currently closed for refurbishment.
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 Birmingham - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the English Midlands It is the second largest city of the United Kingdom and is regarded by many as England's "second city".
Birmingham has 35 miles (60 km) of canals within the city boundaries, of which most are navigable; the canals were once the lifeblood of the city's industries during the Industrial Revolution but are now used mainly for pleasure.
The oldest inn in Birmingham is the Old Crown in Digbeth (circa 1450).
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 Birmingham Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England.
Birmingham is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the UK, with large populations from the community, and the city hosts the third largest St.
Birmingham is by far the UK's largest manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in the industry and contributing billions to the national economy with two of the largest car plants in Britain, MG Rover and Jaguar, not counting Land Rover in nearby Solihull.
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 Birmingham - InformationBlast
Due to Birmingham being the second largest and second most culturally diverse city in the UK it is generally considered England's "second city", after London.
Birmingham's other city- centre music venues include The National Indoor Arena (NIA) and the Birmingham Town Hall, which played host to many classical and popular music performances from the late 1800s, but which is currently closed for refurbishment.
Birmingham is represented in the House of Commons by 11 MPs.
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 Articles - Birmingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Arms manufacture in Birmingham became a staple trade and was concentrated in the area known as the Gun Quarter.
Birmingham's canals are compartively shallow artificial channels, while those in Venice are primarily reinforced natural channels between islands of the lagoon on which the city stands.
Birmingham's other city- centre music venues include The National Indoor Arena (NIA), the CBSO Centre, Adrian Boult Hall (ABH) at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Birmingham Town Hall (currently closed for refurbishment), which has played host to many classical and popular music performances from the late 1800s.
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 Digbeth and Deritend, Birmingham West Midlands
In the Domesday survery of 1086, Birmingham is shown as belonging to William Fitz-Ansculf from Dudley Castle and Birmingham was valued at only £1.
The reason for it being called the Bull Ring is the granting of a license to a certain Mr John Cooper in the 16th century for the purposes of baiting bulls.
The Old Crown dates back to the mid 14th century and is one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.
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 Birmingham - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham is a city in the West Midlands of England.
Birmingham is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the UK, with large populations from the Caribbean and Indian sub-continent: according to the 2001 census, 29.7% of the population of Birmingham is non-white.
Birmingham has one one of the largest collections of Pre-Raphaelite art in the world at The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
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 Birmingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham started life as a small Middle Anglian hamlet in the dark ages.
Birmingham's other city- centre music venues include The National Indoor Arena (NIA), CBSO Centre, Adrian Boult Hall (ABH) at Birmingham Conservatoire and the Birmingham Town Hall,rawwiki_inboundrently closed for refurbishment, which played host to many classical and popular music performances from the late 1800s.
Enoch Powell was born & raised in Birmingham, and was a significant poet as well as a politician.
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 The Old Rose & Crown, Rednal, Birmingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The hotel building is steeped in history in its original form it was a court house that would sentence highway robbers from Dick Turpins time, to be hung on the Gibb at the top of the hill over 300 years ago.
William The Conqueror would have passed through the area Rose Hill was part of the Old Stage Coach route from Birmingham to Bristol.
The Old Rose and Crown has since enjoyed a more stable life offering itself as a venue for parties and celebrations as well as having letting bedrooms, the hotel is now firmly a favourite for Brummies and alike wishing to visit the area.
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 Wonders to Behold - Story of Myrtice West
It was 1986 when the killing happened; Bram was twelve.” A decade later, West’s emotions are as fragile as the day she learned that Martha Jane had been shot by Brett Barnett, who is now in prison with a life sentence.
In the company of the noises of sleepers and the creaking of the old house, she sat alone studying the Bible.
Myrtice West is not alone in painting her dreams and religious visions, and she is one of several self-taught artists in the late 20th century who see their paintings as a means of spreading the gospel and warning the world of a coming Apocalypse.
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 Rubery. An old village in Birmingham, new Rubery views and history.
The old salt trail is still there about half way up Beacon Hill, where it goes left onto the golf course or right over a stile behind Hazel Road, and continues past fields with horses, exiting opposite where the old Plough pub once stood, by the Midland Red bus stop.
The old man told me that in the war a bombing attack was sounded, and a man he knew sprinted accross Cofton park to be with his pregnant wife, when a stray bomb killed him.
My grandparents both met and worked as attendants at the old Rubery Hill Hospital when it was first built.My grandfather joined the RAMC and remained stationed there when it bacame Birminghams first war hospital.
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 Jewels in the Crown Birmingham's Heritage
The Institute was founded in 1932 by Lady Barber in memory of her husband Sir William Henry Barber.
Virtual Brum is an unofficial Birmingham UK website about the city which is also known as Brummagem or Brum.
Views expressed are not those of Birmingham City Council or any of its agencies.
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 Heritage: Digbeth Slice of Life Trail
The trail begins outside the oldest secular building in Birmingham, the Old Crown, which dates back to circa 1450.
Originally built as a private house, it was probably the 'mansion house of tymbar' described by John Leland when he visited the town in 1536.
Opposite the Crown in Heath Mill Lane is Birmingham's oldest surviving library building, Deritend Branch Library, opened on the same day as the first Reference Library in 1866.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
His next engagement was at the old Broadway theatre as principal comedian, and in 1871 he was given a high salary to go to San Francisco.
He entered the College of Old Oscott in 1816, was ordained priest in December 1824, and was sent to Nottingham.
His father died when he was five years old, and when he was about eight he was sent to school at Ottery, St Mary, Devonshire.
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 Old Crown Court Opens To Celebrate The Tolpuddle Martyrs - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
Dorset is set to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs as the scene of their 1834 trial and imprisonment opens for guided tours from July 18 2005 and, for the first time, the National Trust calculates the exact age of the landmark Tolpuddle Tree.
The Old Crown Courts and Cells at Dorchester are to open for tours with Blue Badge Guides throughout the summer until September 9 2005.
Dorchester’s Old Crown Court and Cells guided tours take place at the offices of West Dorset District Council, High West Street, Dorchester from July 18 to September 9 2005, Monday to Friday from 2pm - 4.15pm (excluding bank holidays) and on Wednesdays between 10am – 12.15pm.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART29453.html   (691 words)

  
 Index - Old & New Birmingham, R.K.Dent, 1880
Below is the main index for this edition of Dent's History of Birmingham.
Digbeth and the Bull Ring, old appearance of, 70; appearance of in 1803, 312; old view of, 423; the old open forges in, 195, 204; old half timbered house in, (Assinder's) 199
prosecution of the Birmingham radicals, 360, Anti-Corn Law Meeting (1826), 396; Beginning of the Reform Agitation, 396 ; the distress in 1829, 397 ; Birth of the Political Union, 397; Meeting in Beardsworth's Repository, 398; object of the Union, 398; Mr.
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 Old Crown, Deritend, West Midlands - pub details # beerintheevening.com
Old Crown, Deritend, West Midlands - pub details # beerintheevening.com
Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer - a favourite with the BITE team, this is a funny and fascinating look at the way pubs and beer have shaped our culture.
Rainbow, Birmingham (0.0 miles), Spotted Dog, Digbeth (0.1 miles), Horans Tavern, Digbeth (0.1 miles), White Swan, Digbeth (0.1 miles), Wagon and Horses, Bordesley Green (0.2 miles) - see more nearby pubs
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 Crown Building Society UK / Best Mortgages & Savings
Crown has now become a public limited company : Northern Rock plc
Bedford Crown Building Society has now become a public limited company : Cheltenham & Gloucester plc (Lloyds/TSB)
Crown Building Society has now become a public limited company : Northern Rock plc
www.aboutbuildingsociety.co.uk /old/Crown.htm   (224 words)

  
 Birmingham Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham grew out of dozens of small villages, towns and farmsteads during the Industrial Revolution.
Birmingham has since learnt from its mistakes and with one of the largest demolition and renovation programmes of tower blocks anywhere in Europe, new committees have been set up to guide planning and construction of new buildings, squares and parks.
Brindleyplace and Millennium Point are also examples of how fine modern architecture is replacing the much derided concrete of days gone by.
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 The Old Crown, The Oldest Inn, Birmingham UK – Welcome
In it's time, The Old Crown has served as a hotel, as a brewery, as a pub, as a café and even as a slaughterhouse!
The oldest inn in Birmingham is an independently run establishment offering a delightful traditional bar, an intimate restaurant, truly unique accomodation and impressive facilities for both business conferences and special occasions.
Easily reached from The National Coach Station at Digbeth, Moor Street and New Street railway stations and Birmingham International Airport, The Old Crown is ideally situated for visitors to Birmingham who want something out of the ordinary, not just the usual anodine fare.
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 Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) : Top marks as chippie serves up tasty treat. @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Start / S / Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) / May 17, 1998 / Top marks as chippie serves up tasty treat.
Every customer entering the Fish Bar is greeted with a smile and a friendly hello and made to feel welcome.
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 Buy a The Old Crown Public House business for sale on Businesses For Sale .com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Old Crown is ideally located on a busy main road within close proximity to three town centres, the main one of which is Halesowen.
It is also situated adjacent to the local Country Park, which attracts many walkers and families.
Halesowen is close to the M5 motorway and the main midlands motorway interchanges with Birmingham City centre about 10 miles away.
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 Old Crown & Cushion, Birmingham, West Midlands - pub details # beerintheevening.com
Old Crown and Cushion, Birmingham, West Midlands - pub details # beerintheevening.com
Old Crown & Cushion, Birmingham - pub details
user comments about Old Crown & Cushion, Birmingham
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 Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Birmingham, Alabama, was bought, planned and built to be a new industrial center in the South, with its financial successes focused solely on its iron and steel industries.
It was a banner year at old Rickwood Field, where Birmingham drew 445,926, leading the Southern Association in attendance by a wide margin.
Piper's old DP partner Artie Wilson was having troubles of his own.
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 Birmingham Old Crown
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 Do you know where this  photograph has been taken of the Old Crown Inn and Windmill Inn nearby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The proprietor of the Old Crown in is
These are the 'Old Crown Inn' that I found in the 1881 census :
Dwelling: 41 The Borough St(The Old Crown Inn)
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 Memorials of Old Birmingham Traditions of the Old Crown House in Der-Yat-End in the Lordship of Birmingham with Some ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Memorials of Old Birmingham Traditions of the Old Crown House in Der-Yat-End in the Lordship of Birmingham with Some Notes on English Guilds - SMITH, TOULMIN
SMITH, TOULMIN Memorials of Old Birmingham Traditions of the Old Crown House in Der-Yat-End in the Lordship of Birmingham with Some Notes on English Guilds
Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall, The title page and the next page, the subscription list are torn but complete.
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 Old Crown Inn, South Kirkby, Pontefract : Pubs Galore
Old Crown Inn, South Kirkby, Pontefract : Pubs Galore
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Johnny Ray's Restaurant - The original Johnny Ray's in Birmingham, Alabama is famous for its pies.
Old North State Apiaries - Honey, creamed honey, honey vinegar, recipes, candles, bees and beekeeping supplies.
Old Sacramento Popcorn Co. - Fun popcorn in over 80 flavors.
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 POLESTARS - POLEDANCING CLASSES! THE OLD CROWN LONDON Tickets, What's On Listings Directions and Reviews - skiddle.com
POLESTARS is NOT associated with any pole dancing establishments and run classes purely to promote pole dancing as an alternative fitness and DO NOT encourage any of the girls who attend the classes to take it up professionally.
The Old Crown - 33 New Oxford St, London, WC1A 1BH
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