The Birmingham pen trade prospered and areas such as the Gun Quarter and Jewellery Quarter existed with high standards of production set out by institutions such as the Birmingham Proof House and Birmingham Assay Office.

The LeMats which found their way through the Union blockade were stamped with British proof marks from the Birmingham Proof House, leading to the misapprehension that the pistols were actually manufactured in the UK.

Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House

Gates of the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House

The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House was established in 1813 by an act of Parliament at the request — and expense — of the then prosperous Birmingham Gun Trade.

The grade II listed Proof House is located in Banbury Street, Birmingham, England.

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Meanwhile, the Parker-Hale Arms Company was transferred to the Birmingham Proof House, where it continued with the reconditioning of. 22 calibre weapons for junior training organisations.

Positioned alongside the BSA factory sportsground and Sparkbrook, from which the local area gets its name, the Parker-Hale factory headquarter building echoes the traditions of the Birmingham gunmaking industry, since it occupies the very site that the Proof House located their testing range.

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A Portland stone sculpture of the Baskerville typeface, Industry and Genius, in his honour stands in front of Baskerville House in Centenary Square, Birmingham.

He was an active member of the Lunar Society often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham.

Soho House in Handsworth, West Midlands | Handsworth, Birmingham, a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society

William Bloye's gold-covered statue Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, in central Birmingham. Among memorials to the Society and its members are the Moonstones ; two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch by William Bloye ; and the museum at Soho House – all in Birmingham, England.

Birmingham City Council meets at the Council House, Birmingham | Council House.

Chamberlain seconded the motion for disestablishment at a debate in Birmingham Town Hall, where the meeting ended amidst fighting after he attacked the hereditary powers of the House of Lords.

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 '.

When elected, Chamberlain resigned as mayor of Birmingham, and was introduced to the House of Commons by John Bright and Joseph Cowen, an M. P.

When Chamberlain suggested that he would march on London with thousands of Birmingham constituents to protest the House of Lords ' powers, Salisbury remarked that " Mr. Chamberlain will return from his adventure with a broken head if nothing worse.

The Birmingham Bridge, Fort Roberdeau, Jacob Isett House and Store, and St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

They now numbered only 23 MPs ( or 25 according to other calculations ) in a combined Unionist alliance of just 157 in the new House of Commons-though in Birmingham the Liberal Unionist and Conservatives were triumphant.

File: Canal under BT Tower Birmingham. jpg | Underneath Brindley House, part of the BT Tower complex

* Two plays have been produced based on the ideas in The Dice Man: The Dice House, written by Paul Lucas and produced by Neal Foster's Birmingham Theatre Company, and The Six Sided Man by Gavin Robertson.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

A 2011 UK Horrible Histories tour was planned, The Awful Egyptians, which covered such venues as Grand Opera House, York, New Theatre, Oxford, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Manchester Opera House.

In 1986, Clare Short, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, led an unsuccessful House of Commons campaign to have topless models banned from all British newspapers.

A 1910 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing railways around Birmingham and Bordesley ; Snow Hill is upper centre

The square was the centrepiece of the millennium celebrations for the city with singer, Cliff Richard lighting a beacon known as The Flame of Hope, which stood between Baskerville House and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

The Library of Birmingham is currently being built between Baskerville House and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Annisberg was about seventy-five miles west of Birmingham, near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa River, a small and dirty stream.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

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.

Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

The Birmingham BCG trial was published in 1988.

She was later a partner in the Washington, D. C. office of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.

The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.

Bakelite Limited, a merger of three phenol formaldehyde resin suppliers ( Damard Lacquer Company Limited of Birmingham ; Mouldensite Limited of Darley Dale and Redmanol Chemical Products Company of London ) was formed in 1926.

A new factory opened in Tyseley, Birmingham, England around 1928 and was subsequently demolished in 1998.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

The origins of the building society as an institution lie in late-18th century Birmingham – a town which was undergoing rapid economic and physical expansion driven by a multiplicity of small metalworking firms, whose many highly skilled and prosperous owners readily invested in property.

He was elected as the 13th President of Birmingham – Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama on March 21, 2011.

Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

A fellow left-wing historian, she wrote studies on women in the Chartist movement, and of Queen Victoria ( subtitled ' Gender and Power '); she was Professor of History at the University of Birmingham.

Before that she was married to Jon Birmingham.

Jeff Lynne, frontman of fellow Birmingham group The Idle Race, was excited by the concept.

The Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 was a charity concert organised by Bevan in ELO's hometown of Birmingham on 15 March 1986.

Fahrenheit 451 inspired the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production " Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine ", which was performed at the Birmingham Central Library in April 2012.