Part 10

Lablache 207 Lady Huntingdon's Chapel 108 Ladywood Lane 199

London and North-Western Railway Station 3

Mario, Signor 206-7 Martin & Chamberlain 93 Modern Shopkeeping 29 Moilett and Gem 202 Moseley 115 Municipal Debt 14 Municipal Reforms 8 Muntz, G.F. 1

Nettlefold & Chamberlain 66 New Meeting House 75, 77

Old Birmingham Men 104 Old Square 110

Palmerston, Lord 52 Pearsall, Wm. 174 Pemberton and Sons 202 People's Park 187 Prince Consort 186 Prosperous Manufacturers 99 Pudding Brook 113 _Punch_ 52

Queen's Visit to Birmingham in 1858 187

Rabone Bros. 202 Radicals and Royalty 61 Reeves, Sims 206 Richter, Dr. 217 Rigby, Vernon 214 Russell, Lord John 189

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 Stockley, W.C. 214 Sturge, Joseph 193 Sullivan, Sir Arthur 209

Taylor, S. Coleridge 220 Tea Drinking 170 Thackeray 190 "The Dream of Gerontius" 220 "The Elijah" 205 Timmins and Sons 162 Titieus, Mdlle. 213 Town Hall 109 Trebelli, Madame 213

Unearned Increment 97 Unitarians 74, 75

_Vanity Fair_ 51 "Vaughton's Hole" 113

Walker's (T.F.) Ship Logs 159 Welsh Water Scheme 58 Williams, Powell 81 Winfield and Co., R.W. 196 Winfield, John Fawkener 198 Wynn and Co. 162

"Yule Tide" 214

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