* Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun by John McGrath ( Flynn ), Birmingham Rep, 1967

* Gun Quarter, Birmingham

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.

* Gun Barrels: at Edgbaston in Birmingham, a city known for its metal-working and gunmaking trades.

At this time in Britain, they were built as individual gun components mainly in the Gun Quarter, Birmingham by a number of independent manufacturers and then hand-assembled to produce rifles.

By the nineteenth century, the introduction of the percussion system combined with the adoption of modern production methods led to Birmingham becoming the dominant producer in British firearms with its own Gun Quarter. 1832: A form of German Silver is invented by Charles Askins, this is used to make spoons and cutlery specifically in the Birmingham area.

Gun manufacture in Birmingham continued to develop, mainly around the Digbeth area but also in what was later to become known as the Gun Quarter.

Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House

Gates of the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House

See also Birmingham Gun Quarter.

* Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House

Location of the historic Gun Quarter within present day Birmingham

The Gun Quarter is the name given to a district of the city of Birmingham, England, which was for many years the centre of world's gun manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns.

In the 1960s, a large part of the Gun Quarter was demolished by post-war town planners, with the area split in two by the construction of the Birmingham Inner Ring Road.

Following the Big City Plan of 2008, the Gun Quarter is now a district within Birmingham City Centre, however there are not currently any plans in place to redevelop the Gun Quarter and many buildings in the area are disused.

A commemorative plaque in the Gun Quarter claims that around this time Birmingham was the " foremost arms producer in the world ", the town's closest rival being London.

* Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House

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.

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

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Birmingham Proof House was built in 1813, then one of only two such proof houses in England, the other being in London.

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.