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Re: so you know about birmingham but did you know this
« Reply #22 on: January 22, 2013, 04:47:23 PM »
                                                           THE BULLRING
 
The market legally began in 1154 when Peter de Bermingham, a local landowner, obtained a Charter of Marketing Rights from King Henry II.[8] Initially, a textile trade began developing in the area and it was first mentioned in 1232 in a document, in which one merchant is described as a business partner to William de Bermingham and being in the ownership of four weavers, a smith, a tailor and a purveyor. Seven years later, another document described another mercer in the area. Within the next ten years, the area developed into a leading market town and a major cloth trade was established.
The name Mercer Street is first mentioned in the Survey of Birmingham of 1553. This was a result of the prominence of the area in the cloth trade. In the 16th century and 17th century, Mercer Street rapidly developed and became cramped. In the early 18th century Mercer Street was known as Spicer Street, reflecting the growing grocery and meat trade that had begun to take over from the cloth trade. By the end of the century the street was known as Spiceal Street. Despite being overcrowded and cramped, many houses on the street had gardens as indicated by an advertisement for a residential property in 1798. Houses were constructed close to St Martin's Church, eventually encircling it. These became known as the Roundabout Houses.[9] On a map produced by Westley in 1731, other markets had developed nearby including food, cattle and corn markets with other markets located nearby on the High Street. This corn market was moved to the Corn Exchange on Carrs Lane in 1848. The Bull Ring developed into the main retail market area for Birmingham as the town grew into a modern industrial city.
The earliest known building for public meetings in the town with any architectural record is the High Cross, which stood within the Bull Ring. The last known construction work was in 1703; it was demolished in 1784. It was also known as the Old Cross, to distinguish it from the Welch Cross, and was also nicknamed the Butter Cross due to farmwives selling dairy produce beneath its arches.[
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« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2013, 04:51:32 PM »
Birmingham 1731, William Westley's mapWilliam Westley was a Birmingham surveyor. He owned land between Dale End and Steelhouse Lane. On this map 'Westley's Row' runs west from John Street. It appears on Bradford's map of 1751 as Westley Street, but by 1781 had been renamed as London Prentice Street.

At this time St. Philip's church was on the edge of Birmingham, with farmland stretching to the north beyond. The land immediately to the west of St. Philip's had been sold at the end of the seventeenth century with the condition that it should only be used as agricultural land for the next 120 years. There was a pleasantly rural view from St. Philip's until the early nineteenth century, although the town of Birmingham had grown considerably beyond these fields.

Please note - West is at the top of this map, rather than north.1731 William Westley plan Birmingham
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« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2013, 05:16:42 PM »
I think it was Prince Rupert's hide-out (1643?), and it was at a pub that stood at the junction of Stratford Road and Sandy Lane (demolished to make way for the current road junction).
You are correct Malc,the pub was called  The Ship Inn,
Neighbourhood rumour used to say that there was a tunnel that ran from the pub to a very old building that used to stand at the top end of Stratford place,on the corner with Moseley Road, O0

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Re: so you know about birmingham but did you know this
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2013, 05:28:30 PM »
gee gee just for you
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« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2013, 05:41:06 PM »
Thank you Roy-----I'm not that bl@@dy old.I remember  The Ship Inn that replaced that one ;D O0 Do you remember the water trough that used to stand on Camp hill.? not that one in the photo.

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« Reply #27 on: January 22, 2013, 05:50:43 PM »
The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRC&W) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divided by the boundary between the two places. The company was established in 1854.[1]
BRC&W made not only carriages and wagons, but a range of vehicles, from aeroplanes and military gliders to buses, trolleybuses and tanks. Nevertheless, it is as a builder of railway rolling stock that the company is best remembered, exporting to most parts of the new and old worlds. It supplied vehicles to all four of the pre-nationalisation "big four" railway companies (LMS, SR, LNER and GWR), British Rail, Pullman (some of which are still in use) and Wagons-Lits, plus overseas railways with diverse requirement including Egypt, India, Iraq, Malaya, Mandate Palestine, South Africa and Nigeria. The company even built, in 1910, Argentina's presidential coach, which still survives, and once carried Eva Perón. Before World War II, the company had built steam-, petrol- and diesel-powered railcars for overseas customers, not to mention bus bodies for Midland Red, and afterwards developed more motive power products, including BR's Class 26, Class 33 (both diesel) and Class 81 (electric) locomotives. Examples of all three types are preserved.
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Re: so you know about birmingham but did you know this
« Reply #28 on: January 22, 2013, 05:53:24 PM »
gee gee yes i do and the cafe on the other corner
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Re: so you know about birmingham but did you know this
« Reply #29 on: January 22, 2013, 06:03:23 PM »
Cannon Hill Park is located in the south of the city and is its most popular park, covering 250 acres (101 ha) consisting of formal, conservation, woodland and sports areas, most of which was donated in 18th & 19th Centuries. Recreational activities at the park include boating, fishing, bowls, tennis, putting and picnic areas.

It wasn't always peaceful - its name comes from a brief engagement in the English Civil War between guerilla irregulars and Royalist troops camped there on the way to the Battle of Naseby in June 1645
....you can guess where the King's cannons fired from O0
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In April 1873, a local benefactor, Miss Louisa Ann Ryland (1814–89) of Barford Hill House, Warwickshire, gave 57 acres (23 ha) of meadow land, known as Cannon Hill Fields, to the Corporation and paid for the draining of the site to create a public park. J.T Gibson of Battersea was employed to transform the site. He constructed two large lakes, the smaller ornamental ponds and a bathing pool. 35 acres were devoted to ornamental gardens and shrub borders. Kew Gardens donated seeds and plants to establish the collection, this collection was used by students to enable them to study Botany. It opened to the public in September 1873. A further 7 acres (2.8 ha) were given by Sir John Holder-Bart in 1897, and in 1898 5 acres (2.0 ha) were acquired to straighten the River Rea, which is now culverted and runs along the western edge.
 
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« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2013, 02:29:33 PM »
Regarding the 'Battle of Camp Hill'. The Royalists tried to re -arm during their stay at Camp Hill and tried locally to purchase  Shot  and powder Swords etc from local suppliers.As the local suppliers tended to be supporters of Cromwell and the Roundheads they were  refused supplies. So next time next time time you run out of Ammo on Camp Hill make sure you are a Roundhead.
I read that there were barricades thrown up across the road near the Old Crown by the "Nailers", the Nailmakers who lived and worked in the area. It was said that they actually repulsed the Royalists coming down from Camp Hill.
 The King was not happy with his nephew for his actions in Brum and tore a strip off him.
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« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2013, 02:44:38 PM »
Civil War periodDuring the English Civil War Northfield stood on the northern border of royalist Worcestershire and right next to parliamentary Warwickshire and there were regular minor skirmishes and conflicts between the forces of the two opposing sides. Hawkesley House in West Heath, which belonged to the royalist Middlemore family, was besieged and seized by parliamentary forces who fortified the building but were re-expelled subsequently by royalist forces in May 1645 and the house was then razed to the ground.[5] Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander of the Royalist cavalry, lived in Longbridge House and used it as his headquarters throughout the siege of Hawkesley House.
There are traditions that Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond slept in Selly Manor on his way to the Battle of Bosworth Field. Later Robert Catesby, of the Gunpowder plot fame, and Oliver Cromwell are both said to have also visited Northfield and also stayed at Selly Manor House
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Re: so you know about birmingham but did you know this
« Reply #32 on: January 23, 2013, 02:49:57 PM »
Smithfield MarketThe area was originally the site of the Birmingham Manor House in which the De Birmingham family had lived for centuries. The house had fallen into decay, a situation it had been in many times since the 16th century.
The manor house was purchased by the Birmingham Street Commissioners from Sir Thomas Gooch.[1] The house was demolished and the moat filled in[2] in 1816.[3] Twelve feet of silt was removed from the moat. The establishment of a market in the area was made possible by the lack of density of the buildings and was described in 1848 as "a spacious area."[4] It was built on the site of the ancient manor house moat.
The Smithfield Market was opened on Whitsun Fair Thursday, May 29, 1817[5] by the Birmingham Street Commissioners.[6] The total cost of the development was £3,223 with the cost of construction being £2,449.[5] A result of the opening of the market was the removal of farm animals from the streets and the increase in amount of space for retail trading.[6] Due to the proximity to the markets, Smithfield also developed into a trading centre, establishing its own cattle and horse market which occasionally sold hay and straw on Michaelmas Day in 1817. An Act of Parliament passed in the same year forced the sheep and pig market, which had been held on New Street.[7] The market was further extended in 1883 when a wholesale vegetable market opened on part of the Smithfield site. The pig market in Smithfield was moved to a new site on Montague Street in 1897 and the cattle market followed in 1898. The vegetable market took over the market by 1900, however, a weekly and bi-weekly second-hand market, known as the Rag Fair, was also held there from before 1912 until 1957. Smithfield market declined due to the increasing popularity in the dead meat market.[8]
The market closed in the 1960s after being purchased by Birmingham City Council for the construction for the Inner Ring Road and the construction of new wholesale markets.[3] The whole site was cleared in 1975. During the clearance work, several large sandstone blocks were removed which could have possibly formed the inner wall of the moat. In addition, other stonework was discovered but for reasons of time and money, no detailed excavations took place leading to the production of a floorplan. All recovered rocks were moved to Weoley Castle though nothing has been done to them since.[1]
Smithfield Market had also been a popular public meeting area with a notable event being the assembly of 5,000 black children for the Birmingham Street Robins' winter treat. They proceeded to march to the Drill Hall in Thorpe Street, where they drank tea, eat cakes and received Christmas gifts of fruit, clothing, books and toys, provided by numerous charitable organisations and individuals.[9]
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