Recent content by acroamatic

There are definitely more than a few links to Irish Republicans in Birmingham. I'm going to have a dig into the wider reach of the Walsall plot at some point over the next few weeks too, as their seem to be some tangential links closer to the city centre which I very much want to chase down...

Fascinating... especially as this is the first time, I have ever seen the address of Pieri listed anywhere ;) It's always amazed me that there wasn't more regulation of the mechanisms of producing very dangerous goods previously. Additionally, outside of the Walsall plot, AFAIK there were very...

Oooo where did you find that? Birmingham Journal again?

Wow... the gall of Allsop; "Dear Sir, where are my bombs?" ;) Many thanks for the scan of that, it contains a new found favourite phrase that I am sensing I will get much use from, namely, "a speed almost unparalleled for red tapery" ;)

I'm not shocked by the hoax. The media of the past were just as corruptible and eager for a story as their peers today (the difference being that they didn't any any regulation, other than self regulation) ;) The interesting thing for me about this particular case is that it was in essence a...

A professor and a well known low comedian seems a very strange mix of folks... I am assuming the cellar was possibly the New Street address of the erstwhile Mr Taylors' employers... The plot does indeed thicken (as plots are loathe to do) and this is entirely new information to me. My sincere...

That is very much of interest. A bomb maker next to a pub... what could possibly go wrong eh? ;) Also it is a LOT further down the road than I thought - looks like I'll be having to take my camera out and about to get a picture of a very bleak looking block of flats soon ;)

Also this does beg the question why arms were purchased in both Paris and in Birmingham - again, the oddities of history etc. ;)

According to Marc Sageman, in Turning to Political Violence (https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15638.html) Orsini picked up his revolver at the Devisme A' Paris gunsmith in Paris just before the attack. Also he lobbed the bombs in 1858, so an 1850 revolver would potentially be a bit late(?)...

That's who my money is on - my *guess* (and I hate doing that) is that it seems likely that he may have kept the workshop on to fabricate the devices in - unless he was making them on Broad Street (or at home) which would actually be massively interesting if it could be proven.

Hello all Thanks for the feedback - it is very much appreciated; mikejee - I pulled the data regarding the erstwhile Mr Taylor from Graces' (as opposed to Dix) which is my error - which has now been sorted from https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/History_and_Directory_of_Birmingham,_1849:_Guns. From...

Hello all, I'm new here, so thought I would say hello. As part of doing some research I came across the Orsini case (rather than the much more well known Walsall bomb plot). I have put together an article about Italian nationalists and their ties to Birmingham at...