Thursday 13 November 2025, 7.00pm-8.30pm {Online on Zoom)
John Pigott Smith, Surveyor (1798-1861): A Man of Many Parts & Birmingham’s Answer to Sir Joseph Bazalgette
John Townley, Independent Researcher
Land surveyor, valuer, general agent, railway surveyor, speculative map maker, insolvent debtor, auctioneer and fast coach driver. But it was as Surveyor to Birmingham Street Commissioners and civil engineer and borough surveyor for Birmingham council that Pigott Smith made his mark on the growing town and his reputation as the driving force behind improvements to Birmingham’s roads and sewers
Tickets and link (free) at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john...gette-tickets-1878624018009?aff=oddtdtcreator
John Pigott Smith, Surveyor (1798-1861): A Man of Many Parts & Birmingham’s Answer to Sir Joseph Bazalgette
John Townley, Independent Researcher
Land surveyor, valuer, general agent, railway surveyor, speculative map maker, insolvent debtor, auctioneer and fast coach driver. But it was as Surveyor to Birmingham Street Commissioners and civil engineer and borough surveyor for Birmingham council that Pigott Smith made his mark on the growing town and his reputation as the driving force behind improvements to Birmingham’s roads and sewers
Tickets and link (free) at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john...gette-tickets-1878624018009?aff=oddtdtcreator
