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I have just transcribed, on Wikisource, a ten-page pamphlet "Recollections of New Street, Birmingham, in the Year 1817", published in 1877 by local author Lucy Benton, which some of you might enjoy: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Recollections_of_New_Street,_Birmingham,_in_the_Year_1817

I am trying to find the location of the above. I have this press clipping, from Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Monday 12 October 1835 - p2 col 6 (transcription below): Can anyone locate that on a map, please? There is more about the Pope family at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Pope

What is the circular structure in this map, on the opposite side of the canal to Nechells Gas works: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=52.49325&lon=-1.88481&layers=6&b=ESRIWorld&o=100 in this aerial photo, it appears half-way down the left-hand side, as a crescent of water...

My father was just telling me his uncle, Alf Mabbett, was on the front of a Birmingham newspaper, after being sacked from Scribbans' bakery in Hockley. There had been a strike, but some staff continued to work. Once the strike was over, the "blacklegs" were sacked, because the rest of the staff...

Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham (1885), p192 says: Do we know any more about this incident, or the ship involved? Presumably, it was also exhibited elsewhere - but where?

I have heard that the previously missing metal gates from Birmingham Market Hall, including the city's coat-of-arms, turned up and were auctioned (at Sotheby's?) in 1999 to an overseas buyer; the City Council having declined to intervene or bid. I can find nothing about this online; and...

J. Willoughby Harrison was a (semi- ?) professional photographer active in Birmingham, England, in the 1920s and 30s. Although there are some press credits [1,2], sufficiently few are found that he may well not have been a newspaper employee. His address in November 1926 was given [3] as...

I recently wrote a Wikipedia article about Thomas Bolton, a Birmingham businessman, who had a thriving Victorian-era business supplying specimens of pond life, by post, to customers with microscopes. His contributions to science have more recently been largely overlooked...