Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584317
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Was there an oak in Selly Oak? How is Smallbrook Street connected to a vicious family feud? Where is Spiceal Street and why is it important? Who was Tinker Fox and what connection is there between the Adderleys and Saltley? How are the city's Civil War connections reflected in its names? This book looks at scores of street names of Birmingham.
The Streets of Brum
Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584317
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Was there an oak in Selly Oak? How is Smallbrook Street connected to a vicious family feud? Where is Spiceal Street and why is it important? Who was Tinker Fox and what connection is there between the Adderleys and Saltley? How are the city's Civil War connections reflected in its names? This book looks at scores of street names of Birmingham.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584317
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Was there an oak in Selly Oak? How is Smallbrook Street connected to a vicious family feud? Where is Spiceal Street and why is it important? Who was Tinker Fox and what connection is there between the Adderleys and Saltley? How are the city's Civil War connections reflected in its names? This book looks at scores of street names of Birmingham.
Brum and Brummies
Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582139
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Dr Carl Chinn MBE is well known as an academic, broadcaster and author. A passionate Brummie, he is Community Historian at The University of Birmingham, a regular columnist for The Birmingham Evening Mail, and a presenter of his own local history radio show from BBC Pebble Mill. He is also the author of many books on Birmingham's history. Meticulously researched, Brum and Brummies 3 includes extracts from the many accounts sent to Carl by men and women who remember the Birmingham of yesteryear. This third fully illustrated volume on the people and places of old Birmingham will reawaken many memories. The book is dedicated, in the author's words, to all Brummies proud of our city and proud of our forebears.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582139
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Dr Carl Chinn MBE is well known as an academic, broadcaster and author. A passionate Brummie, he is Community Historian at The University of Birmingham, a regular columnist for The Birmingham Evening Mail, and a presenter of his own local history radio show from BBC Pebble Mill. He is also the author of many books on Birmingham's history. Meticulously researched, Brum and Brummies 3 includes extracts from the many accounts sent to Carl by men and women who remember the Birmingham of yesteryear. This third fully illustrated volume on the people and places of old Birmingham will reawaken many memories. The book is dedicated, in the author's words, to all Brummies proud of our city and proud of our forebears.
Brum Rocked On
Author: Laurie Hornsby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953695157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Laurie Hornsby rediscovers the haunts and venues that played host to the ongoing 1960s revolution, and follows the escapades of the pioneering characters who made it there business to guarantee that 'Brum Rocked On'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953695157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Laurie Hornsby rediscovers the haunts and venues that played host to the ongoing 1960s revolution, and follows the escapades of the pioneering characters who made it there business to guarantee that 'Brum Rocked On'.
The Gangs of Birmingham
Author: Philip Gooderson
Publisher: Milo Books Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In the early 1870s, the boomtown of Birmingham erupted in a series of vicious gang wars. Mobs of youths armed with stones, knives and belt buckles fought pitched battles in a struggle for territorial supremacy. Known as "sloggers", they drew their numbers from the workshops and factories that made guns, nails and jewellery, and lived cheek-by-jowl in overcrowded, insanitary slums. Author Philip Gooderson traces the history of these warring factions from their first appearance in the Cheapside area to the later rise of the "peaky blinders", new gangs named for their peaked caps and long fringes. He describes for the first time the brutal antics of once-infamous fighters such as the Simpson and Harper brothers and the police killer George "Cloggy" Williams, and explains the eventual demise of the gangs at the turn of the century. The Gangs of Birmingham brings to vivid life a forgotten chapter in the history of British gangland.
Publisher: Milo Books Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In the early 1870s, the boomtown of Birmingham erupted in a series of vicious gang wars. Mobs of youths armed with stones, knives and belt buckles fought pitched battles in a struggle for territorial supremacy. Known as "sloggers", they drew their numbers from the workshops and factories that made guns, nails and jewellery, and lived cheek-by-jowl in overcrowded, insanitary slums. Author Philip Gooderson traces the history of these warring factions from their first appearance in the Cheapside area to the later rise of the "peaky blinders", new gangs named for their peaked caps and long fringes. He describes for the first time the brutal antics of once-infamous fighters such as the Simpson and Harper brothers and the police killer George "Cloggy" Williams, and explains the eventual demise of the gangs at the turn of the century. The Gangs of Birmingham brings to vivid life a forgotten chapter in the history of British gangland.
Quetzalli's Last Song
Author: Desiree Ghandour-Fawaz
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662904770
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
When President Orains gets re-elected for a third term in 2025, the nation plunges into a second Civil War. Doomed for the Brazos camp, Brum Hesles, her two siblings and mother flee their home in the Houston archipelago overnight, leaving her father behind. Assisted by the Unity Forces, a resistance group fighting the new Great Republic’s regime, Brum reaches the safety of her mother’s ancestral home in the Oaxacan town of El Nidal. There, in the relative safety of her mysterious great-aunt’s house, she discovers a library brimming with strange manuscripts, artifacts, and the “musical” key to a world she thinks is safer than her own. Who is the heiress of Mitla? And what in Beydo’s name is the Flow? The fate of the Realms and the entire world might unexpectedly rest on the shoulders of an olive-skinned, teenage girl: Brum Hesles, the Keeper of Resonance. Book Review 1: “The book is absolutely wonderful… and I didn’t want it to end.” -- Elizabeth Thurmond (proofreader of Artemis Fowl, Bartimaeus, Kane Chronicles, and the Gallagher Girls series.)
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1662904770
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
When President Orains gets re-elected for a third term in 2025, the nation plunges into a second Civil War. Doomed for the Brazos camp, Brum Hesles, her two siblings and mother flee their home in the Houston archipelago overnight, leaving her father behind. Assisted by the Unity Forces, a resistance group fighting the new Great Republic’s regime, Brum reaches the safety of her mother’s ancestral home in the Oaxacan town of El Nidal. There, in the relative safety of her mysterious great-aunt’s house, she discovers a library brimming with strange manuscripts, artifacts, and the “musical” key to a world she thinks is safer than her own. Who is the heiress of Mitla? And what in Beydo’s name is the Flow? The fate of the Realms and the entire world might unexpectedly rest on the shoulders of an olive-skinned, teenage girl: Brum Hesles, the Keeper of Resonance. Book Review 1: “The book is absolutely wonderful… and I didn’t want it to end.” -- Elizabeth Thurmond (proofreader of Artemis Fowl, Bartimaeus, Kane Chronicles, and the Gallagher Girls series.)
The Quirky Guide to Birmingham
Author: R. J. Hutcheson
Publisher: Quirky Guides Ltd
ISBN: 1527270831
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Break from the shackles of traditional guidebooks and bid farewell to the crowds. Free your mind of dull comparisons with Venetian canals. You deserve better and this is the quite interesting stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know. From City Centre to open road, more than 100 unconventionalities await you and they’re all free to see. It’s the street museum of the marvellously mundane, the gratis gallery of graveyards and graffiti. Box fresh oddities are revealed. Age old myths flaunted on shiny plaques are exposed. Uncover astonishing life stories and tragic deaths of Brummies you may not have heard of but won’t be able to forget. If you prefer sofa centric exploration, every chapter is brought to life with exclusive photographs and illustrations.
Publisher: Quirky Guides Ltd
ISBN: 1527270831
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Break from the shackles of traditional guidebooks and bid farewell to the crowds. Free your mind of dull comparisons with Venetian canals. You deserve better and this is the quite interesting stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know. From City Centre to open road, more than 100 unconventionalities await you and they’re all free to see. It’s the street museum of the marvellously mundane, the gratis gallery of graveyards and graffiti. Box fresh oddities are revealed. Age old myths flaunted on shiny plaques are exposed. Uncover astonishing life stories and tragic deaths of Brummies you may not have heard of but won’t be able to forget. If you prefer sofa centric exploration, every chapter is brought to life with exclusive photographs and illustrations.
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Lord Ulswater. A Novel
Author: Lord Ulswater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Brum and the Naughty Dog
Author: Zig Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340879177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
It's mayhem in the Big Town when Scruffy, the naughty dog, runs away. Can superhero Brum Whizz to the rescue? Sticker fun and storybook in one!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340879177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
It's mayhem in the Big Town when Scruffy, the naughty dog, runs away. Can superhero Brum Whizz to the rescue? Sticker fun and storybook in one!
The Autobiography of a Super-tramp
Author: William Henry Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description