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Happy Birthday Athena!

I've not seen Aston Hall for a while. The new addition is Luke Perry's 'Forward Together,' I wonder if it really will draw people together or be divisive? Is it intended to be permanent, I wonder? https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2024/08/luke-perrys-sculpture-forward-together.html?m=1

Birmingham Library Archive Catalogue - online shows entries for some James Burgoyne photographs. As well as photographs of his premises. https://calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/Overview.aspx

Dear Tom, Thanks for explaining. Perhaps a couple of days looking a books of coaching prints in a library (like Birmingham Library if you are near) might bring the secret? But a great subject for a model. Good luck! Derek

Sorry Lemonella, I knew that pub later. But this thread where Tommy is mentioned might interest you. Derek https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/memories-of-a-birmingham-musician-drummer.44787/page-26

Tomash, is your interest in the coaching literature which is extensive (and unknown to me except for its end in Dickens) or in this painting and print? I think the answer to the J. Hall question, if it is to be found will be found in books rather than on line. But books on coaching or coaching...

Could J. Hall have commissioned the print or a commemoration of his life? In 1829.

Second thoughts on engraver Fredrick Rosenberg painter and aquatinter, worked after Pollard. Born in Bath, the son of the profilist and engraver Charles [Christian] Rosenberg (c.1756-1844) and younger brother of the engraver Charles Rosenberg (1794-1866). Original print published J. Watson 1829...

I've looked in vain for the original painting of this print. I wonder if the prints exist in different states, perhaps one commemorates the life of J. Hall? I can't connect him with coaching. The engraver was probably F Rosenberg 1829? A lot of interest in coaching was historical and nostalgic...

Here's a link to an older thread on coaching: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/coaching-inns-in-the-19th-century.51370/

Welcome to the forum! That's good news - quality instruments for professional players. Thanks for posting.

Happy Birthday Eric! Hope you have a great day! Derek

Ask your university librarian if they subscribe to British Newspaper Archive.

The Barber Institute is now closed again until 2026. This is for building work. Concerts continue in the Elgar concert hall, Bramall Building.

Interestingly, Baskerville House was planned in 1935, work started in 1938 and completed in 1940s. The building was refurbished in 2007 with two extra upper floors of glass and steel. I'd assumed it was older, but that's just the design and the use of Portland Stone ashlar. Originally it was...

And here's a view of the Octagon itself. There are plans for lots of tall buildings in Birmingham, commercial and luxury housing.

The Library of Birmingham lights up nicely at night. There's a pool of water outside with fountains on sunny days. The tall building to the right is the Octagon which is being finished off after topping out. They both dwarf Baskerville House to the extreme right.

Birmingham Daily Post 29 June 1974 reported 6 killed and 24 workers seriously injured in the 1973 explosion. IMI were fined £10 the maximum allowed under the Explosives Act 1875 with £150 costs. The cause was a worker fitting a guard using an electric drill on a cartridge filling machine while...

Reading about Kynoch and found this 1973 short film. (Starts silent then sound for the interviews). 'IMI Ammunition factory at Witton - aftermath of the explosion. Home Office officials sift through the wreckage to find evidence of sabotage'...