It was sold at Christie's on 19 May 2005 for £ 420, 000 (£ 478, 400 including auction fees and taxes ) to David Gold, the then joint chairman of Birmingham City.

* " Birmingham ( We Are Safe )", a song by the David Crowder * Band from the album Church Music

He won an Arts Council bursary to work as a director at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham and founded the Avon Touring Company, a Bristol-based community theatre company, with writer David Illingworth.

David Bintley, Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, created a ballet of the story in 2007.

* Writer Charles Dickens, a one-time resident of Camden Town, placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: Bob Cratchit's family in A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ); the Micawbers in David Copperfield ( 1850 ); and in Dombey and Son ( 1846 – 1848 ), a description of the building of the London and Birmingham Railway, includes a trip through Camden Town.

David Lodge's novel Changing Places tells the story of exchange of professors between the universities of Rummidge and Euphoric State, Plotinus ( thinly disguised fictional versions of Birmingham and Berkeley ), which in the book both have replicas of the Leaning Tower of Pisa on campus.

* David Birmingham.

* The London & Birmingham Railway 150 Years on, by David Gould ( 1987 ) ISBN 0-7153-8968-8

The playwright David Turner had heckled her at the Birmingham Town Hall ; his work was criticised during the meeting, and within a few months Swizzlewick, a twice-weekly series he had created, featured a parody of her.

On 14 July 2005, it was reported that Magma Holdings, a financial group including former Ford Motor Company and General Motors executives, working in conjunction with SAIC, would be making an offer for the assets of both MG Rover and engine maker Rover Powertrain which, if successful, would see at least some production being restarted at Longbridge, and that talks with the other two interested parties – China's Nanjing Automobile Group and Project Kimber ( a consortium of Birmingham businessmen led by David James ) – were still in progress.

There have also been several radio plays, a musical ( 2000 ), a ballet " Far from the Madding Crowd " by David Bintley for Birmingham Royal Ballet ( 1996 ), and an opera, Far from the Madding Crowd by Andrew Downes ( 2006 ).

Joseph Nettlefold donated twenty-five pictures by David Cox to Birmingham Art Gallery on the condition it opened on Sundays.

David Moos curated an exhibition on Mockbee at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, which was in its planning stages when Mockbee died.

On October 1, 2007, Vice-Chancellor David Tidmarsh unveiled the name change from UCE Birmingham to Birmingham City University.

David Cox ( 29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859 ) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism.

It can also be seen at the David Cox exhibition in Birmingham.

* David Birmingham, Trade and Conquest in Angola ( Oxford, 1966 ).

He unsuccessfully contested Birmingham Yardley at the 1983 general election where he finished in third place behind the sitting Conservative MP David Gilroy Bevan.

At the war's close the Prime Minister David Lloyd George also recognised the significance of Birmingham in the allied victory, remarking how " the country, the empire and the world owe to the skill, the ingenuity and the resource of Birmingham a deep debt of gratitude ".

As of October 1 2011 the position of Vice-Chancellor is held by Professor David Maguire, who was formally responsible for research and enterprise at Birmingham City University, and holds a doctorate from the University of Bristol.

David Lodge's novel Changing Places tells the story of exchange of professors between the universities of Rummidge and Euphoric State, Plotinus ( thinly disguised fictional versions of Birmingham and Berkeley ), which in the book both have replicas of the Leaning Tower of Pisa on campus.

In 2006, production of HP Sauce and Daddies was transferred from Birmingham, UK to Elst as a result of the acquisition of HP Foods and the subsequent closure of the Aston factory.

In June 2006, after the General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama changed policy ( details ), both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups praised the resolution.

Later they played a series of highly acclaimed and sold-out gigs during mid-October 2006 in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, and toured Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Dublin, and Nottingham in mid-December 2006.

Jackson progressed through the minors quickly, reporting for his first training camp with the Single-A Lewis-Clark Broncs, Lewiston, Idaho in June, 1966, having signed for $ 85, 000 ( source: " 40 Years Ago Today " in the " Lewiston Morning Tribune " June 15, 2006 ,) and playing one season for the A's Single-A teams, the Broncs and Modesto, California and one more season for their Double-A affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama received a Save America's Treasures Grant in 2006.

In 2006, GAZ made a move on the LDV company based in Birmingham, England, and acquired the van maker from the venture capital group Sun European Partners in July of that year.

By 2006, these companies had consolidated to CSX Transportation, which has lines to Birmingham and Brookwood ; and the Norfolk Southern Railway, with lines to Birmingham, Mobile and New Orleans ; Birmingham Southern continues in service.

Only two games ever remained tied after overtime in WLAF / NFL Europa history: London Monarchs versus Birmingham Fire in Week 4 of the 1992 season, and Berlin Thunder at Hamburg Sea Devils, on 1 April 2006.

She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010 ; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent.

Designs were shown to the public in February 2006 for a new Birmingham New Street Station in a project known as Gateway Plus.

In May 2006, a fully recovered Parfitt and the band returned to the NEC Birmingham to play the show that they had postponed in December.

He led his second at Bournemouth in November 2006, and continues to lead courses in the UK and Ireland, the most recent of which was in November 2010, with further courses scheduled in October in Birmingham and in Galway in November 2011.

However, the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America held concurrent 2006 general assemblies in Birmingham, Alabama in celebration of 300 years of Presbyterianism in North America.

In 2006, Birmingham International Airport celebrated its 75th year of serving the central Alabama region.

She returned to the West End theatre in April 2006 ( for the first time since 1998 ) playing the murderess Roxie Hart in the long-running West End musical Chicago and again in Dec 2007-Feb 2008 in the same role, also in 2006-7 she appeared in the Birmingham and Plymouth tours of Guys and Dolls playing Miss Adelaide Adams, a dance hall hostess.

Since September 2006, Knussen has been Artist-in-Association to the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and since 2009 to the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

He moved to Birmingham City in 2004 and after their relegation from the FA Premier League signed for Wigan Athletic for a club record £ 5. 5 million fee in 2006.

Fowler's return against Birmingham City in February 2006 was labelled by the tabloid press as the stuff of fairytales, and he himself said he felt like " a kid waking up on Christmas morning every day ".

An Aerosvit 737 on stand at Birmingham Airport, England in 2006.

* The Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham opened in April 2006.