heres a first which they can lay claim "birmingham city council run by idiots" for now
I can not believe I printed without checking especially as I left Birmingham due to the incompetence of its council managers.
Let's try another list of Firsts;
Baking powder and eggless custard powder were invented in Birmingham by Alfred Bird.
The first manufacturer of the Robertson's Jam Golly badge was R.E.V. Gomm, who are still making badges in Birmingham today.
Birmingham toolmaker Joseph Hudson invented the football referees whistles which was first used in a game held at Nottingham Forest in 1878. Hudson also made the first Policeman's whistle. .Hudson's also produced all the whistles used on the Titanic's lifeboats, some of which have been recovered from the wreck site. One of those whistles was used by Kate Winslett in the film Titanic. It is estimated that around a 1000 million whistles have been made in the Jewellery Quarter since 1870. Hudsons are still in business making whistles today in the Jewellery Quarter.
Birmingham was the first UK city to have a motorway route into its centre. (A38M)
James Webster patented Aluminum in 1881 and opened the first aluminum factory in Solihull Lodge in 1887.
The first performances of both Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and Walton's Belshazzar's Feast were held in the Birmingham Town Hall.
Samson Lloyd in partnership with John Taylor a button maker, opened one of the first banks in Birmingham in 1765, it was known as Lloyds Bank.
The first metal airoplane in the world was produced at Accles and Pollock, Oldbury.
The famous ODEON chain of cinemas was first opened in Birmingham in 1930 by Oscar Deutsch, the son of a Birmingham metal dealer. Deutsch lived in Augustus Road, Edgbaston.
