A Brummie's Guide to Birmingham

"Sir Edward Elgar, composer, became the University's first Professor of Music in 1905"

"University of Birmingham. Charles Lapworth, undertook pioneering work into the formation of mountain belts, 1882-1883" He a...

"University of Birmingham. Frederick Shotton. Furthered understanding of climate change 1949-1974" On the wall outside the L...

The Custard Factory  is the next location on the Walking for Heritage route. To get here, continue walking down Digbeth High Street, away ...

"Trafalgar Bi-Centenary 2005. Admiral Lord Nelson, 1758 - 1805, Whilst visiting Birmingham in August 1802, Vice Admiral Viscount Ne...

City of Birmingham "William Hutton, Bookseller, the first historian of Birmingham lived on this site from 1772 until 1791" ...

Birmingham Civic Society "On this site, in the former New Meeting House, Joseph Priestley, L.L.D., F.R.S, Scholar, Scientist, Th...

The Old Grammar School in King’s Norton is another of those places that I knew about, and went to find, but never saw it (much like Ironbr...

"John Henry Poynting. First Professor of Physics; determined the mass of the earth in Birmingham in 1890"