Birmingham music legend Andy Cash had started work at Inferno Records, which would later become Tempest, before going on to open his own vinyl store - Andy Cash Records - in 1980 at Kingsbury Road, Erdington. Two other shops followed, in Harborne and Kingstanding. within Steelhouse Lane Conservation Area and with the Methodist Central Hall forms part of a nationally important group of Victorian terracotta buildings. refurbished and the stonework cleaned by Trustee Savings Bank as their head office c1990. The bank relocated to Bristol but a Post Office counter still remains in the building, which is Grade II their interests in the manor to Thomas, Lord Archer of Umberslade in 1746. On the death of his son, Andrew in 1778 the rights passed to his daughters. The manorial rights were bought by the use of red terracotta on such a prestigious building much boosted the use of the material as a local style, a material particularly suitable to the industrial as its very hard nature was a good

Ibid 1245. Crenshaw identifies this concept as “multi-layered and routinized forms of domination that often converge.” These explains that these intersecting patterns of subordination do not have to be intentional but that the “imposition of one burden…interacts with pre0-existing vulnerabilities.” On the corner of Newton Street is the Grade II Listed County Court designed by James Williamson in 1882, two storeys in stone in a neo-classical renaissance-palace style. Built five years before Most of the upright gravestones have been removed from the churchyard to open it up as a public open space. However some monuments remain. A bronze statue at the west end made by Stirling Lee inThe survival of the alleyway was certainly never assured. In 1829, for example, they said it was about to come down, and one of the local papers – the Birmingham Journal – dubbed it needless by name and needless by nature. There were plenty of other ways to get from New Street to St Philip’s without disappearing (perhaps forever) down such a dark tunnel. Temple Street and Bennetts Hill were much more respectable. while attempting to rescue General Gordon in 1882; a plain marble obelisk is a monument by Peter Hollins to Lt Col Thomas Unett who was killed in 1855 at the Battle of Sebastopol; a memorial to The High Street is now pedestrianised and one of Birmingham's most important shopping streets with major stores and a shopping mall, the Pavilions which was built in 1988 after the economic

the monasteries but also religious guilds, a number of Birmingham men were able to set up a school attached to the guild. So, although the guild itself ceased to exist, the school, known as The this the destruction wrought by German bombs during the Second World War and Corporation Street is only half the Victorian street it was. Nonetheless, important buildings survive in the street

nearly a hundred years old - to see what the covenants were, and he found that he was bound to deliver up the plot of land in question to the school, somewhere, I think, about 1860 to 1865, the Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act did not live up to its name and made no provision for councils to rehouse those displaced. It was not until the Housing of the Working Classes The churchyard was formerly enclosed by walls and railings with several entrance gates. Believed to hold some 60 000 bodies, it was closed to all but family burials in 1859 and laid out as a already sold the land on which to build St Philip's Church which would be an attraction to the well-to-do to buy houses on their new estate. None of these now survive and the street is made up of

a prime mover in the unsuccessful bid to install Lady Jane Grey as queen after the death of Edward death, he was found guilty of high treason under Queen Mary and executed in 1553. The The Iron Man by Antony Gormley. Cast in Willenhall in 1993 and paid for by the Trustee Savings Bank which then occupied the former General Post Office headquarters, the statue represents the 18th century the hill from the Bull Ring up to the junction with New Street was High Town; up to Carrs Lane was the English Market, Beast Market or Rother Market ('rother' was a medieval term with Sash'd Windows and Sash'd Doors, adjoining to the open Fields, and commanding a Prospect of four Miles Distance, and all necessary conveniences.Old Square was first laid out in 1697 surrounded by high-status Georgian houses. Most of them were demolished as part of the Corporation Street Improvement Anglo-Saxon placenames ending in - ingham are predominantly found in East Anglia, Lincolnshire and east Yorkshire with only a scattering further west. They are therefore likely be places

by Dr Thomas Bray of Sheldon founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Of especial importance are the magnificent east and west stained-glass windows by William Morris fromvariety of events: political meetings (Lloyd George escaped rioting 1901 disguised as a policeman), youth rallies (eg. Boys Brigade), music concerts (Ravi Shankar), schools drama and music, and