Birmingham
About Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands region, in England. It is the largest local authority district in England by population and the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of 1.2 million people in the city proper in 2024. Birmingham borders the Black Country to its west and, together with the city of Wolverhampton and towns including Dudley and Solihull, forms the West Midlands conurbation. The royal town of Sutton Coldfield is incorporated within the city limits to the northeast. Birmingham's urban area has a population of 2.7 million and its wider metropolitan area has a population of 4.3 million.
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When he was 23 years old, he walked 300 miles to Birmingham to ask for a job with James Watt, the steam engine pioneer. He got the job, partly because he had an interview with Watt's business partner, Matthew Bilton. The reason he got the job was because Bilton was fascinated by Murdoch's wooden hat.
from 72: No Such Thing As A Bacon Telescope, 2015-07-31 at 00:04:10 · read transcript
Other times Birmingham came up
A lot of people, temperance was kind of a thing and people were trying to stop people from drinking in general. Obviously the war helped that. but then obviously a lot of other people were thinking not. When they decided that they would allow or try and get more women into pubs, there were 37,000 female signatories in Birmingham of a petition demanding that women not be allowed in pubs until a certain age. That's incredible.
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Any profligate youth of Coventry in tonight? They referred to her as a brazen harlot, the poor, poor woman who dressed in a onesie on horseback. Then someone referred to, it was a bishop of Worcester who referred to her as a Birmingham whore being paraded through the streets. It seemed like he was more bothered that she was from Birmingham than anything else. We should very quickly say who Lady Godiva was or wasn't.
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From button city and button city apparently is amazing and it's situated very near toothbrush city which produces a lot of the toothbrushes in the world should be next to button the whole city something about something else about buttons lots of birmingham is built on buttons so stay with me um so uh shell buttons used to be extremely popular buttons made from from mother of pearl or shell and um in the 18th century the the world's button the button town of the.
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Coordinates: 52.4800, -1.9025