Their first honour outside of Italy was recorded in 1960 – 61 when Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham City 4 – 2 in the finals.

Birmingham City Council offered loans to those who were unable to repair their properties, and the area has now made a full recovery.

After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six.

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.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

* Birmingham City Council page on Industry and Genius ( includes picture )

* Birmingham City Council page on Baskerville

* ‘ Media Studies: Text, Production and Context ' - Book by Paul Long and Tim Wall from Birmingham City University, Pearson Education, 2009

* Mike Seal ( born 1970 ), the Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

** Alex McLeish, Birmingham City and ex-Scotland football manager

* The Birmingham City F. C.

* Birmingham City University in Birmingham, England ( founded 1971 )

* Birmingham City F. C., an English football club that currently play in the Football League Championship

* Birmingham City Council ( BCC ), England

* City of Birmingham, an LMS Coronation Class steam railway locomotiove.

* City of Birmingham, a former British Airways Boeing 747-200, registration G-BDXJ

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

They had won the title in 1994 but were denied promotion then as their stadium did not meet Football League capacity requirements – this came the same year that they eliminated Birmingham City from the FA Cup.

Birmingham experienced such rapid growth that it was nicknamed " The Magic City.

" Birmingham, Alabama: New South City in the 1920s.

Only a few Fox stations that air a late evening newscast in the traditional evening news timeslot used by NBC, ABC and CBS affiliates ( 11 p. m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, 10 p. m. in the Central and Mountain time zones ), along with the primetime newscast ; these include Fox-owned stations WTVT / Tampa, KDFW / Dallas, WAGA / Atlanta, WOFL / Orlando, WJBK / Detroit, KMSP / Minneapolis, KSAZ / Phoenix, WTTG / Washington, D. C. and WFXT / Boston, as well as affiliates WDAF-TV / Kansas City, WITI / Milwaukee, WBRC / Birmingham, KOKH / Oklahoma City, WTIC / Hartford, WXXA / Albany, WZTV / Nashville, WVUE / New Orleans, KTVI / St.

*' Media Studies: Text, Production and Context ' book by Paul Long and Tim Wall from Birmingham City University

Baltis are a style of curry thought to have been developed in Birmingham, England which have spread to other western countries and are traditionally cooked and served in the same, typically cast iron pot.

Two of the leading centres have been the University of Rennes ( France ) and the University of Birmingham ( UK ).

Most Unamended ecclesias have a similar statement of faith called the Birmingham Unamended Statement of Faith ( BUSF ) with one clause being different.

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

Big industrial cities such as Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester as well as parts of Newcastle and Nottingham also have large diaspora populations due to the Industrial Revolution and, in the case of the first two, the strength of the motor industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

One of the first relevant successful covers was Wynonie Harris's transformation of Roy Brown's 1947 original jump blues hit " Good Rocking Tonight " into a more showy rocker and the Louis Prima rocker " Oh Babe " in 1950, as well as Amos Milburn's cover of what may have been the first white rock and roll record, Hardrock Gunter's " Birmingham Bounce " in 1949.

After outrage from Birmingham residents ( who felt that the word ' Blast ' may have been misconstrued as a reference to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, as well as Eric Rudolph's 1998 bombing of a local abortion clinic ), the XFL changed the name of the Birmingham team to the more benign " Birmingham Thunderbolts ".

Perot is married to Margot Birmingham ; they have five children ( Ross Jr., Nancy, Suzanne, Carolyn, and Katherine ).

Camp Hill Locks in Birmingham were not widened, as it would have been very expensive and of little point, since they lead only to further flights of locks not in the ownership of the Grand Union.

Times have changed, the practice of a new play every week and a week's rehearsal doesn't happen, and today the practice of " rep " is more likely to be seen in large cities in the manner applied by such well-known established companies as Birmingham Rep in the Midlands of England which states in its programmes: "" The REP " presents a season with each play generally having an unbroken run of between three and six weeks.

In the UK, Pride events have been few and far between – traditionally in gay hubs of Brighton, Birmingham and London, with Pride events expanding in support and largely increasing in attendance each year.

A series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford ( removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction ), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations.

Except for cities such as Birmingham that have established their own local school districts, all parts of Jefferson County are served by Jefferson County Board of Education.

Though the manufacturing industry maintains a strong presence in Birmingham, other businesses and industries such as banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have risen in stature.

Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of £ 1, 350, 000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that ' We have not the slightest intention of making profit ... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants '.

Though Salisbury was unsurprised by the German attitude, Chamberlain was disappointed, and spoke publicly of Britain's diplomatic predicament at Birmingham on 13 May, saying that " We have had no allies.

It has recently been reported by walkers in the Lickey Hills Country Park area of Birmingham that a pair of wallabies have been released or are loose there ( East Tunnock Rambling Club Meeting, December 2010 ).

Swans have announced a series of U. S. and European tour dates, and headlined the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, England in October 2010.

In the late twentieth century the Brotherhood of Ruralists based its aims on Pre-Raphaelitism, while the Stuckists and the Birmingham Group have also derived inspiration from it.