Alexander was born at Hales ( today Halesowen, West Midlands ), Shropshire, England between 1180 and 1186.

Crown Green Bowls is very popular mostly in the North of England but also in Wales, West Midlands and Shropshire.

Category: Musical groups from Birmingham, West Midlands

Suetonius, meanwhile, regrouped his forces in the West Midlands and, despite being heavily outnumbered, defeated the Britons in the Battle of Watling Street.

Suetonius took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street, in a defile with a wood behind him — but his men were heavily outnumbered.

Most historians favour a site in the West Midlands, somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street.

Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

Category: Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

Several years after his death, a street on a new housing development in Tividale, West Midlands, was named Attlee Close in his memory.

The local branches are grouped into 16 regional branches across the UK, such as the West Midlands or Wessex.

CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.

Category: Music in Birmingham, West Midlands

Category: Musical groups from Birmingham, West Midlands

Pete Hurley, the guitarist of Extreme Noise Terror, declared that he had no interest in being remembered as a pioneer of this style: "' grindcore ' was a legendarily stupid term coined by a hyperactive kid from the West Midlands, and it had nothing to do with us whatsoever.

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.

Further, archaeological evidence suggests that the early settlers of Jamestown ( men largely from the West Midlands ) built swine pens for the pigs they brought with them and, once established, also carried on an ancient British tradition of slaughtering their pigs and producing their pork in mid-November.

Category: People from Birmingham, West Midlands

Category: People from Birmingham, West Midlands

* WMRN West Midlands Regional Network ( operated directly by Janet )

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

The Gates Hillman Complex, opened for occupancy on August 11, 2009, sits on a site on the university's West Campus, surrounded by Cyert Hall, the Purnell Center for the Arts, Doherty Hall, Newell-Simon Hall, Smith Hall, Hamburg Hall and the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center.

It has 37 teachers and has been affiliated with the West Virginia University Benedum Collaborative as a Professional Development School since 1997.

# redirect West Midlands Collaborative Commerce Marketplace

* The West Oakland Food Collaborative operates a farmers market, and other projects to provide healthy food to the neighborhood.

VU conducts research with a wide range of partners including The Western Bulldogs, City West Water, Western Health, Linfox, the Victoria Employer Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Institute of Sport, all levels of government, and other educational institutes in Australia and overseas.

The Danish claim was strong ; they had the benefit of the Treaty of Alliance and Commerce of 1670 between Britain and Denmark, which led to the founding of the Danish West India Company in 1671 which its charter permitted it to take possession of and occupy the two islands.

Tomcat Holland wrote this brief history for the West Carroll Chamber of Commerce website and posted it here as well.

* West Orange Chamber of Commerce

The Homer Chamber of Commerce is also located within the former hotel At one time, part of the building housed the defunct West and Company department store, owned by H. O.

* West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Information Center

West Milford businesses are represented by the West Milford Chamber of Commerce, an organization of business men and women that has worked to improve and enhance the business community in West Milford since it was established in 1949.

* West Milford Chamber of Commerce website

In addition to the various clubs and organizations affiliated with its schools and churches, there are the Chamber of Commerce, West Islip Beautification Society, American Legion, the Chamber Orchestra Society, Youth Enrichment Services and the West Islip Fire Department.

Commercial groups include the Sheridan Chamber of Commerce and the West Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Now home to the Marlboro Chamber of Commerce and The South Carolina Cotton Trail, the house had been purchased, restored, relocated to its West Main Street location and presented to the county in 1991 by D. D.

* West Kerr County Chamber of Commerce

Brookshire is a city 34 miles west of downtown Houston along Interstate 10, 7 miles west of Katy, the fastest growing residential region in the U. S .. Brookshire is part of the Interstate 10 Energy Corridor, part of the west Houston and Katy Market, and a member of West I-10 Chamber of Commerce.

Brookshire is 34 miles west of downtown Houston, 7 miles west of Katy, the fastest growing residential region in the U. S .. Brookshire is part of the Interstate 10 Energy Corridor, part of the west Houston and Katy Market, and a member of West I-10 Chamber of Commerce.

* Geneva Lake West Chamber of Commerce

* Geneva Lake West Chamber of Commerce

In 1774 a proposal was made through Valentine Green to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West, Cipriani, Barry, and other artists to ornament the Great Room of the Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ( now the Royal Society of Arts ), in London's Adelphi, with historical and allegorical paintings.

Tower 2 is the second tallest building in Hong Kong, behind the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon.

* West Bend Area Chamber of Commerce

Queen Street, running parallel to the square's West side, features the city's Chambers of Commerce building, which was designed by John Burnet and opened in 1874, two storeys were added by JJ Burnet in 1907 and are topped by a domed tower on which is perched a ship on a globe, a reminder of the importance of sea trade to Glasgow's prosperity.

The result was Commerce Court consisting of a landscaped courtyard complementing the existing building and included the newly built 786-foot Commerce Court West.