A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"

The jewellery trade is not carried out in large factories with tall, towering stacks, powerful steam engines, &c. Machinery may be used in certain branches of the trade for all...

"The task which is imposed upon us is certainly a very melancholy one. One by one our leaders are removed from us. The gaps in our ranks are becoming painfully apparent. Still,...

Few people heed their beauties I am afraid; indeed, some singularly insensible residents and traders in the neighbourhood have been known to protest against the charming chiming...

The _Birmingham Morning News_ was carried on for some four years at a very considerable loss, and just when it seemed to be about to turn the corner and get into a more profitab...

Of course it usually happens that when large reforms are effected the noble work is done at somebody's inconvenience or cost. It is the inevitable result, and people who are not...

Sometimes we should hark back to 1820 port, a wine which I remember to have had a rich colour and a full refined flavour, and once I tasted the famous comet wine, 1811, which, h...

Accordingly some forty years ago they selected a site on the west side of the town, and erected what was then considered a handsome place of meeting, which they called the Churc...

Some of our old-established merchants and factors are still with us. The trade of Messrs. Keep and Hinckley, whose place of business was for years near St. Mary's Square, is now...

The present century has seen the rise and development of many towns in various parts of the country, and among them Birmingham is entitled to take a front place. If Thomas Attwo...

St. Martin's Bells 170 St. Martin's Church, Birmingham 177 Sandwell Park 118 Sanitary Improvements 15 Schnadhorst, F. 83 Sheffield 54 Smallwood and Sons 166 Steel Toy Trade 162...