After a brief tenure at Matthew Boulton ’ s Birmingham ( Soho ) Mint, Droz returned to France and in 1799 was appointed Keeper of the Coins and Medals at the Paris Mint, which post he held throughout the Napoleonic era.

In 1797 Matthew Boulton was authorised by the government to strike copper pennies and twopences at his Soho Mint, in Birmingham ; the time was not yet right for a token coinage, so they actually had to contain one or two pence worth of copper, i. e. they weighed one and two ounces each ( penny — 28. 3 grams, diameter 36 millimetres ).

In addition to the Royal Mint in the Tower of London, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 some coins were produced at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, and are identified by an " H " to the left of the date, and in 1918 and 1919 some were also produced at the Kings Norton Metal Co. Ltd, also in Birmingham, and are identified by " KN " to the left of the date.

For the first fifty years of Canadian coinage ( cents meant to circulate in the Province of Canada were first struck in 1858 ), the coins were struck at the Royal Mint in London, though some were struck at the private Heaton Mint in Birmingham, England.

* Birmingham Mint ( United Kingdom )

His successor Sultan Mohamed Shamshudeen III ( 1904 – 1935 ) made the last of these coins, 1 and 4 laari denominations, which were struck in the United Kingdom by Heaton's Mint, Birmingham, England in 1913.

It was also home to the first steam-powered mint, whose presses were subsequently used at the first Birmingham Mint

The Birmingham Mint won its first contract to strike finished coins for Britain – 500 tons of copper, struck between August 1853 and August 1855, with another contract to follow in 1856.

Shortly before his death, Ralph III converted the family business into a public limited liability company, passing control on 22 March 1889 to the new company named The Mint, Birmingham, Limited.

In addition to manufacturing coins, the Birmingham Mint also produced proof medals and tokens for vending machines.

* The Birmingham Mint Website

The Birmingham Mint also became internationally renowned for its high-quality coins, as did Cadburys for its chocolate and workers welfare and rights.

As a youth he had a variety of jobs, including shelf stacking, dish washing and work at the Birmingham Mint.

All Canadian coins ( including five-cent coins ) were struck in England at the Royal Mint ( no mint mark ) and the Birmingham Mint ( H mint mark ) until 1908, when the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint opened.

Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald, is credited with coining the phrase " Crimson Tide " in an article describing the 1907 Iron Bowl played in Birmingham.

The reverse shows a seated Britannia holding a trident with the words to either side of her, and the date in the exergue beneath her ; until 1895 there was a lighthouse to Britannia's left and a ship to her right ; variations in the reverse include different levels of the sea around her feet, and an " H " below the date in 1874, 1875 ( very rare ), 1876, 1881 and 1882 indicated that the coin was produced at Messrs Ralph Heaton's mint in Birmingham.

These coins had no mint mark to identify them as from Birmingham.

In 1863, bronze coins, produced by the Heaton mint of Birmingham, were issued.

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 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 Vulcan statue is today a prominent feature of the Vulcan Park and Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, where it was originally cast.

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in the early 1960s.

Chamberlain married Harriet Kenrick, the daughter of Archibald Kenrick, member of a Unitarian family from Birmingham who originally occupied Wynn Hall in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales, in July 1861 ( they had met the previous year ).

The college was originally founded in 1838 as Spring Hill College, Birmingham, a college for Nonconformist students.

Leo Amery, who is well known for his later career as a senior Conservative politician and Cabinet minister, was originally elected as a Liberal Unionist at a Birmingham South by-election in 1911.

Built in part of the grounds of Speke Hall, Liverpool ( Speke ) Airport, as the airport was originally known, started scheduled flights in 1930 with a service by Imperial Airways via Barton Aerodrome near Eccles, Manchester and Castle Bromwich Aerodrome Birmingham to Croydon Airport near London.

Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New Street services originally ran through and became one service to Stanstead Airport, similar to their service from Liverpool to Norwich via Nottingham ( now part of East Midlands Trains ).

The Birmingham to London line engineer, Robert Stephenson originally planned the railway through north London terminating where King's Cross station currently stands.

Allegedly, the league had originally planned to name the team the Blast, but changed the name at the last minute when it was considered to invoke images of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and of the 1998 bombing of a local abortion clinic, two tragic events in Birmingham history.

There were also both Area and District Grid Control Rooms, which were originally located at Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, St Albans, East Grinstead and Bristol.

Norton is a British motorcycle marque, originally from Birmingham, founded in 1898 as a manufacturer of " fittings and parts for the two-wheel trade ".

* Birmingham College of Art and Design ( originally the Birmingham Government School of Design, founded in October 1843 );

Children's Hour was broadcast from 1922 to 1964, originally from the BBC's Birmingham station 5IT, soon joined by other regional stations, then in the BBC Regional Programme, before transferring to its final home, the new BBC Home Service, at the outbreak of the second World War.

The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, from Birmingham to Tamworth, followed in 1784 with the Birmingham Canal Company merging with the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company immediately, to form what was originally called the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company.

* BCN Main Line ( originally known as the Birmingham Canal ) from Aldersley Junction ( north of Wolverhampton ) to Gas Street Basin ( at the Worcester Bar in central Birmingham ), using some of the Old Main Line canal.

This re-united group, which now included the large majority of Christadelphians, became known as the Central fellowship named after the Birmingham Central ecclesia.

Well known UK universities providing dental courses are the Universities of Glasgow, Cardiff, Queen's Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Dundee, Manchester, Sheffield and King's College London.

Both parents had emigrated from Kallstadt, Germany and settled in the Birmingham section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — today known as the South Side.

A large number of indoor rowing competitions are held all over the world, including the indoor rowing world championships ( also known as CRASH-B Sprints ) held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in February and the British Indoor Rowing Championships held in Birmingham, England in November ; both are rowed on Concept2s.

* Joseph Smith ( footballer ) ( 1889 – 1916 ), known as Joe Smith, English footballer with Birmingham F. C.

One of these is The Vine, known locally as The Bull and Bladder, in Brierley Hill near Birmingham.

* Tony Packo's Cafe is located in the Hungarian neighborhood on the east side of Toledo known as Birmingham and features hundreds of hot dog buns signed by celebrities.

Morris also joined a Birmingham group at Pembroke College, known among themselves as the " Brotherhood " and to historians as the " Pembroke set ".

It is England's second city, the most populous place with city status in the United Kingdom, and the largest city commonly known as Birmingham.

** Birmingham, Alabama ( Amtrak station ), known as Birmingham station

** Birmingham, Michigan ( Amtrak station ), known as Birmingham station

* Birmingham ( Pittsburgh ), a neighborhood in Pittsburgh now known as South Side.

* Birmingham ( HM Prison ), prison in Birmingham, England, also known as Winson Green Prison

Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.

* mac ( Birmingham ), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK

In 1921 they joined the Birmingham & District League and three years later the club became known as Burton Town and were league champions in 1928.

In the field of college and university education, Birmingham has been the location of the University of Alabama School of Medicine ( formerly known as the Medical College of Alabama ) and the University of Alabama School of Dentistry since 1947, and since that time, it has also become provided with the University of Alabama at Birmingham ( founded circa 1969 ), one of three main campuses of the University of Alabama, and also with the private Birmingham-Southern College.

Birmingham is also known for a bombing which occurred later that year, in which four black girls were killed by a bomb planted at the 16th Street Baptist Church.

Birmingham is located on the heart of a Tornado Alley known as the Dixie Alley due to the frequency of tornadoes in Central Alabama.