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	Rotunda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In geometry, the pentagonal rotunda is a polyhedral solid formed from half an icosidodecahedron.
		Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, built as the "New Lying-In Hospital" in 1757.
		The Rotunda in Birmingham, England, built as "The Rotunda" in 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rotunda (178 words)

	Birmingham
		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.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/birmingham.html (3302 words)

	Birmingham biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 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.
		Birmingham suffered heavy bomb damage during World War II, and partly as a result of this the city-centre was extensively re-developed during the 1950s and 1960s with many concrete office buildings, ring-roads, and now much-derided pedestrian subways.
	birmingham.biography.ms (3741 words)

	A History of Birmingham
		Birmingham had gained a reputation as a place where cutlers made knives, nailors made nails and many flsmiths worked at their forges.
		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.
	www.localhistories.org /birmingham.html (1650 words)

	Rotunda (Birmingham) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Rotunda is an iconic, cylindrical tower block in (A city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center) Birmingham, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		A (A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)) bank (And burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept) strongroom in the (The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage) basement helps to support the weight of the building.
		He also explained that the building had originally been intended to look like a (Stick of wax with a wick in the middle) candle, with a flame- like beacon on top, changing colour to reflect the (The meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation) weather.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rotunda_(birmingham)1.htm (435 words)

	BIRMINGHAM REMEMBERED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Birmingham was recorded as a minor village in the Domesday Book (1086) which stated that there was land for six ploughs, but only three plough teams were used, there were the families of five villiens and four borders; woodland half a league by two furlongs, had no mill nor meadow.
		Birmingham's skilled workforce, and the fact that Birmingham was located near the coalfields of northern Warwickshire and Staffordshire, meant that the town grew rapidly during the Industrial revolution.
		Birmingham became a county borough in 1889, and a city in 1896.
	www.btinternet.com /~john.lerwill/personal/homebrum.htm (3788 words)

	Birmingham Six biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Birmingham bombings were attributed to the Provisional IRA, although the group denied this two days later.
		The devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush (later renamed, then redeveloped in 2003 as a tourist information office), at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town, a basement pub on New Street (later renamed, now a branch of Pizza Hut).
		All men were interrogated by Birmingham CID and claimed that they were beaten, threatened and forced to sign statements written by the police over three days of questioning.
	birmingham-six.biography.ms (647 words)

	The Rotunda Theatre
		The proprietor was immediately desirous of building a new and larger theatre, but he was aware that due to the destruction of the old theatre by fire the manner of entrance to and exit from the theatre in any future plans would be of utmost importance.
		In 1903 Matthew Montgomery retired and was succeeded by his son Matthew, who continued to advance the reputation of the Rotunda as one of the leading centres of melodrama in the provinces.
		The site of the Rotunda Theatre was cleared some time after the war and was subsequently laid out with grass and small trees as it remains to date.
	www.scottiepress.org.uk /gallery/rotunda.htm (2405 words)

	Things to do in Birmingham - Birmingham Attractions - TripAdvisor
		Located in the eastern part of Birmingham, this scenic Edwardian park with its tranquil boating lake was opened in 1903 on 54 acres of open grassland.
		Part of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, this Victorian building is so named since it was once occupied by the main gas company in the city and the place where local people went to pay their gas bills.
		Home of the city of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, this structure is acclaimed as the "finest concert hall in Europe," due to its perfect acoustics and floating base designed to minimize vibration from the outside.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attractions-g186402-Activities-oa70-Birmingham_West_Midlands_England.html (1174 words)

	The Rotunda, Birmingham architecture
		The Rotunda at 150 New Street was built in the 1960's and opened in 1965 by James Roberts, designed to finish the curve of his Smallbrook Ringway It stands 265ft (81m) tall with 23 floors overlooking the Bull Ring shopping Centre.
		The explosion in Birmingham was an attack on a city which was the target of one of the worst atrocities ever carried out by the IRA in England.
		The Rotunda is a 20-storey office and retail complex and New Street is one of the city's principal thoroughfares, not far from the scene of the latest attack.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /rotunda.htm (884 words)

	Biosphere & Higher Intelligence Agency - Birmingham frequencies - Groove Unlimited
		Perfomed at The Rotunda in Birmingham, England on October 4th 1997.
		Birmingham Frequencies is a record of an event which took place in Oct 97, within the sublime circular rhythms of Birmingham's modern architectural classic - the Rotunda.
		As the the title implies, audio/visual data was captured from various locations around the city: a sunny day in the park, a night time trip down the canal, a visit to a Moseley flat...
	www.groove.nl /cd/1/18723.html (231 words)

	"LOCAL ELECTIONS: WE'VE A GREAT STORY TO TELL"
		Birmingham is an outstanding example of what a Labour Council working in partnership with a Labour Government can achieve.
		In Birmingham and the west Midlands this has meant an additional 432 officers on the beat since the spring of 2001.
		And in Birmingham, which has had its own problems with crime and anti-social behaviour in the past, the latest figures show significant falls in crime here too.
	www.lgcnet.com /pages/news/article.asp?ArticleID=310508 (2834 words)

	Birmingham Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Birmingham's grade I listed Town Hall closed its doors to the public in 1996, on safety grounds.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /wiki/architecture.htm (610 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - The Rotunda, Birmingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Rotunda was built in the 1960's and opened in 1965.
		It is one of Birmingham's most prominent and original landmarks and has even survived a bombing in 1974.
		The Rotunda was Grade II listed by English Heritage in August 2000 and has official landmark status.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=58807 (368 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - BIRMINGHAM - Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Birmingham’s landmark tower is set to get a makeover and be possibly converted into apartments.
		A project to be brought forward by the Birmingham Needle Group who are currently conducting a design competition.
		Key Birmingham landmark that will be turned into a "urban box" of retail, residential and offices.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=118780 (932 words)

	CAIN: Events: Birmingham Six: Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray. (1976) The Birmingham Framework: Six innocent men ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the Birmingham jury yesterday decided that the 14 men in the dock, many of whom had been in the reception area that day, were not the men who inflicted fl eyes and cuts on the Irishmen’s faces.
		According to the prosecution the bombs in Birmingham which killed 21 people were the culmination of a bombing campaign in Birmingham carried out by an IRA unit; it was asserted that James McDade was a member of that unit and the bombs were in revenge for his death.
		Also puzzling in the Birmingham affair was the role of the three who were supposed to have conspired to plant explosives, James Kelly, Michael Bernard Sheehan and Michael Joseph Murray.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/other/1974/faul76.htm (9666 words)

	sonomu: Birmingham Frequencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now they have ascended a tower in midtown Birmingham and applied the same aesthetic used in pastoral Norway to a city centre in England.
		Although there is an air of light pervading the entire album - this virtual tour opens in bright sunshine with the twitterings of little children at play - one also discerns an undertext, the juxtaposition of old and new that characterizes any big city in flux: analogue familiarity versus digital distance.
		Track four, named after "The Rotunda" in which the performance took place, makes a welcome detour into spooky guitar and bass strummings over a slow rhythm.
	sonomu.net /text/~583 (282 words)

	Birmingham Weekly Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TOWARD A NEW BIRMINGHAM The fourth part of a five-part series on the life & times of Richard Arrington, Jr.
		All of the photos seen on these pages and on the cover of this issue of Birmingham Weekly - and most of the photos of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that have appeared in newspapers and magazines nationwide for the last 40 years - were taken by the late James Martin, better known by his nickname, Spider.
		The thousands of photographs that Spider Martin shot during March 1965 - including images of the city of Marion in the bristling, difficult aftermath of the fatal shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson; of the exhausting, exhilarating and sometimes bloody 52-mile trek between Selma and Montgomery; and of the dramatic speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
	www.birminghamweekly.com /archived/pages/20050303_coverstory.php (1557 words)

	Memories of Birmingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the autumn of 1995 I turned up in the centre of Birmingham and was taken aback.
		Many of the street patterns were as I remember when I lived in the city as a boy, but much had been done to them and changed around them.
		Particularly striking was the Gas Street Basin and the ICC on Broad Street with its broad piazza link through to the Council House and New Street — all pedestrianised.
	www.stuartsoriginals.com /cities/birmingham.html (175 words)

	Birmingham UK - beinbirmingham.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marketing Birmingham's main objectives are to co-ordinate and drive the corporate marketing activity of the city, promoting Birmingham as a gateway to the central England region and an ideal venue for major events, business and leisure tourism.
		Financed by both public and private sector support, the Partnership exists to promote Birmingham and the region on the national and international stage.
		Working in partnership with Birmingham City Council and the NEC Group to open Birmingham W1, the city's London office.
	www.beinbirmingham.com /exec/109394/851 (232 words)

	The Birmingham Alliance
		To find out more about Bullring Birmingham and for all the latest news on the development, visit the official website.
		The doors of Birmingham's new Indoor Market were officially opened to the public on Saturday 7th October 2000.
		Rotunda 15 has now closed its doors for the final time.
	www.birminghamalliance.co.uk (224 words)

	Different Drummer in Birmingham
		MyVillage met the Birmingham pair behind the record label Different Drummer, DJ Dick and Adam Regan...
		Birmingham's most notorious DJ, Richard "DJ Dick" Whittingham of Different Drummers bought the Birmingham club and music scene out of the "shirt, tie and no trainers" mind-set into a new era.
		By the time of their debut album Rockers to Rockers (more a collection of singles than a full-length work), the group began moving heavily into ambient-dub and what later became known as trip-hop.
	www.mybrum.co.uk /birmingham/bars&Music-diffdrum.htm (737 words)

	Rotunda Skelter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The centrepiece will be the much-derided Rotunda, which will have it's circular floors skewed slightly to allow for it to become a huge slide - at 500ft the largest in the World.
		Visitors will be able to take newly installed lifts to the top, although fitness fanatics will be able to climb the thousands of stairs, and then will reach up to 50mph sliding down on some of them rough mats like you get at helter skelters at the fair.
		Plans are also afoot to redesign the new Selfridges building as a giant bouncy castle, and utilise St Martin's Church as a resturant-cum-souvenir stall.
	www.jonbounds.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /jon/brum/Bullring-Rotunda-Slide.html (191 words)

	Birmingham
		This page includes a few links, but there is always a lot more in Birmingham than is estimated (even if you take that statement into account).
		Or at least it seems that way, as there is a very large section in the centre which is one of the biggest building sites in Europe.
		Birmingham was originally named after the chief Beorm, whose people were the Beormings, and who lived in the hamlet called Beorming-Ham.
	www.zyra.org.uk /bham.htm (116 words)

	icBirmingham - Birmingham
		Pierre Huyghe's Concrete Requiem was performed in Birmingham, 2000, as an unprecedented partnership between Ikon Gallery and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
		His images will be on display both in the gallery and offsite, on billboards at the base of the Rotunda in central Birmingham.
		She was born and raised in Birmingham and for the first time she takes her home town directly as her subject.
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /ikon/birmingham/content_objectid=11131361_method=full_siteid=50002_headline=-Birmingham-name_page.html (362 words)

	Buildings and structures in Birmingham - Birmingham Attractions - TripAdvisor
		Built in 1758 by John Perrott as an observatory, this 96-foot gothic-style tower offers panoramic views of Birmingham and the surrounding countryside.
		This is the last of the Grand Palladian houses, completed in 1760, which houses some of the finest examples of Rococo plasterwork by Francesco Vassali and a magnificent collection of 18th-century furniture.
		A significant landmark located in The Bull Ring, Birmingham's oldest marketplace located in the center of the city.
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attractions-g186402-Activities-c8-oa20-Birmingham_West_Midlands_England.html (570 words)

	Birmingham Walks - Booking Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marketing Birmingham information desks at the ICC and the NEC.
		If you are planning to visit Birmingham, this is a 'must have' guide.
		The ultimate intention is to create a site containing information and images - both historical and current - about people, places and companies in the Birmingham area.
	www.btinternet.com /~asmith.design/walkpages/booking.html (168 words)

	BIRMINGHAM: IT'S NOT SHIT
		For The Birmingham: It's Not Shit 'Brummie of the Year 2005
		"Birmingham has three syllables in it, one more than London and Paris and New York and two more than Hull.
		"Birmingham has a sign in Victoria Square that tells you it is 900m to St Martins in the Bull Ring."
	www.jonbounds.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /jon/brum/brum.php (1621 words)

	The Rotunda
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
		I crawled under the desk to rest my bleeding eyes, but the dummy on the steps wouldn't shut his word-hole, and cackling glee flew out on its crap nostril wings and landed to nest in my noise catchers.
		This "bolg" is the record of record for the recording of the record "Yoko Ono Good" by the rocking-roll combination "THE ROTUNDA." We hope to simultaneously pay our respects to our hometown of Birmingham, as well as forg new groun for cross-cultural understanding.
	therotunda.blogspot.com (3262 words)

	SAPLING \| Birmingham Gateway \| Architecture, Planning & Landscape in the City and Region
		The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), a Department in the School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham, describes itself as "a leading international centre for research and teaching in housing, regional and local economic development, urban policy and regional and urban regeneration", combining "the worlds of practice, research and education".
		Founded in 1974, the Urban Morphology Research Group (UMRG), in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) at the University of Birmingham, is the major centre in the United Kingdom for the study of the geographical aspects of urban form.
		The Group seeks to advance knowledge of urban areas through the study of their history and the agents and ideas involved in their creation and transformation.
	www.sapling.org.uk /birmingham (1388 words)

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