Later in his career, Bonham drummed for his Birmingham friend, Roy Wood, on his 1979 album, On the Road Again, and on Wings ' album Back to the Egg on the tracks " Rockestra Theme " and " So Glad to See You Here ".

* Birmingham Back to Backs, Birmingham

* 2003: SEC Most Valuable Back – Birmingham Monday Morning Quarterback Club

* Howell, J. Scott ( 2004 ) " Bringing Back the Magic: Restoring Giuseppi Moretti's Vulcan in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Birmingham Back to Backs, a complex of four restored houses, extends from Hurst Street to Inge Street.

Elsewhere, he has also appeared as Laertes in Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic ( 1991 ) Brian in William Gaminara's Back Up the Hearse and Let them Sniff the Flowers at the Hampstead Theatre ( 1992 ), Roland Maule in Noël Coward's Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre ( 1993 ), Biff in Death of a Salesman, alongside Ken Stott and Jude Law, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse ( 1994 ), Tony in The Servant at the Birmingham Rep ( 1995 ).

Gilroy was also co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: race and racism in 1970s Britain ( 1982 ), a path-breaking, collectively produced volume published under the imprint of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University where he was a doctoral student working with the Jamaican intellectual Stuart Hall.

This argument is expanded upon in one of his previous co-authored books, The Empire Strikes Back ( 1983 ), which was supported by the ( now closed ) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies of the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Back in England, Francis made history as the first player to ever command a 1 million pound transfer when he was purchased by Nottingham Forest from Birmingham City.

Back on stage, he appeared as Doalty in Translations ( Gwenda Hughes, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1991 ), Aidan in Una Pooka ( Mark Lambert and Nicholas Kent, Tricycle Theatre, 1992 ), Damien in Paddywack ( Michael Latimer, Cockpit Theatre, 1994 ), and Jesus in Darwin's Flood ( Simon Stokes, Bush Theatre, 1994 ).

The Birmingham Back to Backs ( also known as Court 15 ) at 50 – 54 Inge Street and 55 – 63 Hurst Street are the last surviving court of back-to-back houses in Birmingham, England, now operated as a museum by the National Trust.

* Birmingham City Council: Back to back in Birmingham

* Birmingham Back to Backs ; Do something unforgettable ..., The National Trust, 2006, HH Associates ( leaflet )

* Birmingham Back to Backs information at the National Trust

** US 12 " ( 4AD / Warner 9 40674-0, 1992 ): Mama Told Me Not To Come ( Go Back ) ( 6: 56 ) / Mama Told Me Not To Come ( 7 Inch ) ( 3: 16 ) // Mama Told Me Not To Come ( Up All Night ) ( 4: 24 ) / Birmingham To Jerusalem ( 8: 24 )

** US CD ( 4AD / Warner 9 40674-2, 1992 ): Mama Told Me Not To Come ( 7 Inch ) ( 3: 19 ) / Mama Told Me Not To Come ( Go Back ) ( 6: 59 ) / Birmingham ( 7 Inch ) ( 3: 34 ) / Birmingham To Jerusalem ( 8: 27 ) / Mama Told Me Not To Come ( Up All Night ) ( 4: 26 )

A cover by Ten Years After on their 1974 album Positive Vibrations was titled Going Back To Birmingham.

Back in Birmingham, Godskitchen continued to go from strength to strength.

Birmingham Back to Backs on Hurst Street

* Birmingham Back to Backs at National Trust

* Birmingham Back to Backs

Its proximity to the University of Birmingham, the city centre and the ‘ trendy ’ area of Moseley were all contributing factors.

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

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

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.

Benjamin FranklinWhile the society's meetings provided its name and social focus, however, they were relatively unimportant in its activities, and far more activity and communication took place outside the meetings themselves – members local to Birmingham were in almost daily contact, more distant ones in correspondence at least weekly.

Boulton, Darwin and Whitehurst were in turn introduced by Michell to Benjamin Franklin when he travelled to Birmingham in July 1758 " to improve and increase Acquaintance among Persons of Influence ", and Franklin returned in 1760 to conduct experiments with Boulton on electricity and sound.

Although neither Priestley nor Watt were to move to Birmingham for several years, both were to be in constant communication with the Birmingham members and central to the circle's activities from 1767.

Land Rovers were manufactured primarily at the Solihull plant, near Birmingham, but production of the Freelander was moved to the Halewood Body & Assembly plant near Liverpool, a former Ford car plant.

By 1407 this strategy was beginning to bear fruit, even though by this point Owain's rebel soldiers had concluded successful battles with the King ’ s men as far as Birmingham, where the English were in retreat.

Crossroads was set in a Birmingham motel and, although the series was popular, its purported low technical standard and bad acting were much mocked.

The new versions were produced by Simon and Diamond Duggal, brothers from Birmingham, England.

During his master studies, Mehmood had read scientific reports of the " Manhattan Project " while receiving his training at the Birmingham University, where he also had an opportunity to discuss enrichment technology with scientists from South Africa, who were then exploring the jet-nozzel aerodynamic process of enrichment.

The main early centres for track racing in Britain were Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester ( national cycling centre ) and London.

In the United Kingdom, there were over 20 teams attending this years Junior Nationals ( including a coach's team, who played purely for fun ), which were held in Sutton Coldfield Birmingham.

; 1858: The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, responds to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony ; the resulting uproar forces him to resign.

A postscript at the end of the published volume of transactions containing Darwin's paper states that " Whilst the last pages of this volume were in the press, Dr Withering of Birmingham ... published a numerous collection of cases in which foxglove has been given, and frequently with good success ".

However, only one store was opened in Birmingham University, no other stores were opened, and the Birmingham site is now closed.

After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.

To the left is the restored Saltisford Canal Arm, a short stretch that used to run under the railway to the original canal basin complex and terminus of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal-the basin was filled-in in the 1970s.

The restored arm is close to the centre of Warwick, and is now a short branch of the Grand Union Canal, but was originally the mainline line of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, 1799, leading to the terminus and a basin complex built to originally handle timber.

The marble statue of him by Albert Joy was in store until it was recently restored to a prominent position in The Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum.

In 2006-07 the partnership of the Birmingham Civic Society, Birmingham City Council, and the Sturge family restored the statue for the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

In 2006 / 7 the partnership of The Birmingham Civic Society, Birmingham City Council and the Sturge family saw the statue restored in time for the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

When the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850, Birmingham was made a diocese and the Catholic population of the town and surrounding district continued to grow throughout this period with a number of churches and religious houses being established.

The Post and Mail building, Birmingham, opened in 1965 to accommodate the Post and Evening Mail newspapers, but the Post and its sister titles relocated to the restored Fort Dunlop building, three miles out of the city centre, in August 2008.

Though remaining on the transfer list, he was restored to the first team, and his goals helped Birmingham to reach the 2001 Football League Cup Final.