welovebearwood: Bearwood has the write stuff!.....Lynne Voyce's collection of short stories: 'Kirigami' is available from Amazon

welovebearwood: Bearwood has the write stuff!:   Bearwood has the write stuff!  Lynne Voyce's collection of short stories: 'Kirigami' is available from Amazon

#BrumHour Blogging Birmingham: YouGov's top Birmingham fans

#BrumHour Blogging Birmingham: YouGov's top Birmingham fans: by David M  +Sir Hiltons Media The YouGov audience, YouGov Profiles and Birmingham, England The online survey service  +YouGov  has re...

Celebrating 140 years of Aston Villa.....#Birmingham #Brumhour #Brumisbrill

welovebearwood: Dangerous Corner at The REP, Monday November 3rd 2...

welovebearwood: Dangerous Corner at The REP, Monday November 3rd 2...: Starring Bearwood’s very own Colin Buchanan (okay so he was born in Dundee but he used to live here...we’ll take that) J B Priestley’s 'Drawing Room Thriller' is wowing audiences at #Birmingham Rep......

welovebearwood: Bearwood in the Wars

welovebearwood: Bearwood in the Wars: To commemorate the 100 th anniversary of the start of WWI and the 75 th anniversary of the start of WW2 St Mary’s Church (on Bearwo...

Matthew Boulton pioneer of the Industrial Revolution commemorated at Wes...

Blogging Bout 'Bromwichham': In The Public Domain?: Hussain - the Taxi-Scandal ...

Blogging Bout 'Bromwichham': In The Public Domain?: Hussain - the Taxi-Scandal ...: In The Public Domain?: Hussain - the Taxi-Scandal Timeline : First and foremost can I urge you to rush out today and buy Private Eye Magazin...

In The Public Domain?: Hussain - the Taxi-Scandal Timeline

In The Public Domain?: Hussain - the Taxi-Scandal Timeline: First and foremost can I urge you to rush out today and buy Private Eye Magazine where Labour Sandwell and Mahboob Hussain appear in the &qu...

welovebearwood: Calling all Bearwood Foodies! #Bearwood Food Festival courtesy of The Bearwood Pantry

welovebearwood: Calling all Bearwood Foodies!: Very exciting news!  Bearwood Pantry have just announced that Bearwood's getting its FIRST EVER Food Festival on Saturday 25th October...

#Bearwood's own Metz Jnr - Live Original - Tell Me Why

welovebearwood: Rudy’s Rare Records @ The #Birmingham REP, Tuesday 9th Septemb...

welovebearwood: Rudy’s Rare Records @ The REP, Tuesday 9th Septemb...: I dread to think how many hours I have spent in record shops over the years. In Brum we had...deep breath...Swordfish, The Diskery, Pl...

Views Around Birmingham City Centre, England - 3rd July, 2014Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with 1,092,330 residents. This film features views around the city centre on a walk from the Bullring to the National Indoor Arena, it identifies the art, architecture, infrastructure and streets of the city along with some cultural icons.

Birmingham's Hidden Spaces

The Lunar Society Trail.....I have been saying for more years than I care to remember that #Birmingham should make more of The Lunar Men and their contribution to the creation of the modern world. Glad to see History West Midlands share my view with this excellent film. I would like to see Birmingham celebrate The Lunar Men with a Lunar Men Museum in Birmingham City Centre at either the former Birmingham Municipal Bank building at 301 Broad Street where the statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch is or around the corner at the Gas Retort House in Gas Street. My idea for this won the runners up prize in the recent Birmingham Civic Society 'Re-Imagine' competition for Birmingham's 'at-risk' buildings

A drive around central Birmingham early 1950s

Blogging Bout 'Bromwichham': welovebearwood: Green Green Grass of Warley!

Blogging Bout 'Bromwichham': welovebearwood: Green Green Grass of Warley!: welovebearwood: Green Green Grass of Warley! : Just announced! Warley Woods is one of the best green spaces not just in the West Midlands bu...

welovebearwood: Green Green Grass of Warley!

welovebearwood: Green Green Grass of Warley!: Just announced! Warley Woods is one of the best green spaces not just in the West Midlands but in the whole of the UK.  For the sixth yea...

University of the Year....I am an alumnus of the University of Birmingham where I studied Commerce from 1976 to 1979....In this video celebrating Birmingham University as The Times and Sunday Times 'University of the Year' where I talk about how I stay in touch with the university using Social Media

The Wonderful World of Trains & Planes #Birmingham's newest visitor attraction goes full steam ahead and gets ready for take off........WWTP is a railway and aircraft modellers' dream with interactive displays by top modellers. There are also flying and driving simulators so that you can fly planes as small as a Cessna and as big as a Boeing 737 into Birmingham Airport, or if speed is your thing you can drive around Le Mans or The Nurburgring using the latest flying and driving simulators using the most thrilling and up-to-date, state of the art software......A Brilliant Birmingham Day Out Awaits......opening on Saturday 2nd August in the Jewellery Quarter, just off St Paul's Square

I Vow To Thee Black Country.....Celebrate Black Country Day on 14th July with the new Black Country flag which is a tricolor of black, white and red as The Black Country was: 'Black by Day, and Red by Night' as the soot and smoke settled on The Black Country by day and the furnaces and foundries lit up the sky by night.....the flag also features a glass cone to celebrate the glass-making heritage of the Stourbridge area of the Black Country and the chains made in The Black Country, with women's workers rights being won by the Women's Chain-makers' strike in Cradley Heath in The Black Country of 1910......BOSTIN BLACK COUNTRY!!!!!!

Joseph Chamberlain - an icon of Birmingham

welovebearwood: Chamberlains Turn On The Tapas! And faggots and payse for Black Country Day on Monday 14th July......BOSTIN!

welovebearwood: Chamberlains Turn On The Tapas!: Bravo! (oh yes we're bilingual! ) Chamberlains' special Tapas Day on Friday 20th June was such a success in raising lots of m...

welovebearwood: No 13....Lucky for Bearwood!

welovebearwood: No 13....Lucky for Bearwood!: Great news!  Warley Woods Community Trust is hosting its 13th Picnic in the Park next Sunday 13th July.

welovebearwood: Smokin records lights the way...

welovebearwood: Smokin records lights the way...: If music be the food of love play on!   There's nothing better than buying vinyl or going to an amazing gig!

welovebearwood: Bearwood Shuffle#6 at Lightwoods Park Bandstand on...

welovebearwood: Bearwood Shuffle#6 at Lightwoods Park Bandstand on...: Despite a little drizzle (call that rain, pah...we’re tougher than that in the ‘wood) there was a decent crowd building up in time...

Rowland Emett's Marvellous Machines...#Birmingham inventor and humourist Rowland Emett's Marvellous Machines Exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until September.......Get along and marvel at the ingenuity and inventiveness of this 'Brilliant Brummie' who let his imagination run wild in such children's films as 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and others.......Get along to The Gas Hall and prepare to be amazed and amused in equal measure.........!!!!!!.

Out On The Full: Anguish & Pain - England vs. New Zealand Second Te...

Out On The Full: Anguish & Pain - England vs. New Zealand Second Te...: With its huge glass roof and electric atmosphere The Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin is known as ‘The Caludron of Pain’ and on Saturday it ...

welovebearwood: The Midlands’ Return

welovebearwood: The Midlands’ Return: Exciting news from Black Country Ale about Bearwood’s real ale pub which will be opening very soon.   The pub has been named (whoop...

welovebearwood: The Midlands’ Return

welovebearwood: The Midlands’ Return: Exciting news from Black Country Ale about Bearwood’s real ale pub which will be opening very soon.   The pub has been named (whoop...

welovebearwood: Praise In The Park! And not forgetting the 'Bearwood Shuffle'......Live music in Lightwoods Park from the Bandstand.....get there!

welovebearwood: Praise In The Park!: Just added to our What's on in Bearwood page, right here ! Abbey Churches are getting together this coming Sunday 8th June to c...

Jimmy Page On My Planet Rocks (Part 1/3) (+playlist) Led Zep were the best Rock Band in the World and half of them Robert Plant and John Bonham were from Dudley in The Black Country......ROCK ON!

welovebearwood: The Wonders Of Warley Woods

welovebearwood: The Wonders Of Warley Woods: Photo Credit: Simon Lea Photography Simon Lea took this beautiful photo of Warley Woods at the weekend. It’s no wonder the park has been busy with such lovely locationz...

welovebearwood: Jubilant Julie

welovebearwood: Jubilant Julie: The BAFTAs are on our TV screens tonight and Bearwood's very own Julie Walters has been awarded the Academy's highest honour, a Fellowship of BAFTA, founded by local Birmingham George Dixon Grammar School boy Sir Michael Balcon, who also inaugurated the BFI, The British Film Institute........Well done Julie.....you have certainly come a long way from Bishopton Road, Bearwood and Holly Lodge Girls Grammar School in Smethwick.......

#Brummoves - BBC WM 95.6.......Birmingham gets down.......BBC WM and IDFB

welovebearwood: Cheap as chips!

welovebearwood: Cheap as chips!: 99p?  Really?  Wow!  That means you and your loved ones could have a takeaway for your Saturday night tea courtesy of the multi-award winning Chamberlain's Fish and Chip Restaurant in Oldbury near Birmingham on Hagley Road, next to the rubbishy McDonalds.....get some proper English fish and chips instead of the pap served up at McDonalds and all for 99p......Get there and enjoy Fish and Chips at Chamberlains Quality Fish and Chips.........

Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham - BBC Radio 4

Birmingham City Centre - Colour Video - March 1981

March 1981 - Amazing - Birmingham Hagley Road and Broad Street - from Car

welovebearwood: Have fun in the sun! Come to Bearwood's Lightwood's Park's May Day Festival on Monday 5th May.......Be there!

welovebearwood: Have fun in the sun!: With the weather warming up in perfect time for Bank Holiday Monday we thought we would put together our top 10 suggestions for this Monday's extravaganza...

Birmingham St Patrick Parade 2014

Honey, I Shrunk the Library........The Library of Birmingham......bite size!

welovebearwood: Lightwoods Line-up! Bearwood's May Day Festival Line -up for the day at the town's Lightwoods Park on Monday 5th May, Bank Holiday Monday......get there to see 80's band Musical Youth do their thing, including their huge world-wide hit: 'Pass the Dutchie' led by Bearwood's own Dennis Seaton.......Brilliant Bearwood, near Bromwicham......AKA Birmingham off the Hagley Road, opposite The King's Head pub and on the number 11 Outer Circle WMT Bus and the number 9 WMT Bus to Quinton.....ask for The King's Head stop.......You'll love Bearwood's 'Big Day'! Last year we had 25000 people at the Bearwood May Day Festival.....oh and while I am on come and enjoy some real ale at the Bearwood Beer Festival, sample some Black Country Ale who will open a new pub on Bearwood Road in July and Enville Ales......you know it makes sense!

welovebearwood: Lightwoods Line-up!: The full-line up for Lightwoods Park May Day Festival has just been announced and we must admit we’re a little (ok VERY!) excited. ...

Red Oven Punjabi Restaurant in Bearwood Review

welovebearwood: Red Oven: It would be all too easy to miss Red Oven, situated as it is above a branch of Superdrug on Bearwood High Street.  Ignore this slightly ...

welovebearwood: Now We Are 10! Warley Woods Community Trust is 10 years old

welovebearwood: Now We Are 10!: I t seems perfect timing that to mark welovebearwood’s 500th posting that we can celebrate Warley Woods Community Trust’s 10th anniversary.

Chance Brothers - Lighting the World, and Made in Smethwick

England Rugby thank you message: RBS 6 Nations 2014.....England Rugby say thank you for your support.....but please remember to wash it next time.....

welovebearwood: Bearwood Book Club

welovebearwood: Bearwood Book Club: Since we started welovebearwood it’s been amazing finding out about the different community groups which regularly meet up in Bearwood. ...

Pies and Fries: Purnell's Bistro, Birmingham

Pies and Fries: Purnell's Bistro, Birmingham: Our trip to Birmingham was to be all about thrift. Despite the sprinkling of Michelin stars across the city, I promised the Ewing that Ad...

welovebearwood: Big Bench March

welovebearwood: Big Bench March: Show Warley Woods your love by putting your walking shoes on and joining the Big Bench March sponsored walk on Saturday 22nd March 20...

The Birmingham Tennis Trail a 'Perambulation around Edgbaston' the 'Home of Tennis'!

Last year local tennis historian Bob Holland discovered the grave of the Birmingham-born inventor of Lawn Tennis Major Harry Gem’s grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery.

Bob and I have collaborated on the ‘Birmingham Lawn Tennis Trail’ around Edgbaston in Birmingham as there are 5 or 6 important things relating to Lawn Tennis History.

Lawn Tennis was first played by Major Harry Gem at his friend Augurio Perera’s home: ‘Fairlight’ at 8 Ampton Road in 1859.

The Edgbaston Priory’s Centre Court is named after Edgbaston’s 1969 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion Ann Jones.

The oldest existing tennis club in the world, pre-dating the All England Club at Wimbledon by 3 weeks having been founded in April 1974, is Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society (E.A.L.T.S.) is in Westbourne Road, next to Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

The famous 1970′s poster of ‘The Tennis Girl’ taken by the late Black Country photographer Martin Elliott was snapped at the former Edgbaston Tennis Club in Edgbaston Park Road which was at that time the Birmingham University Tennis Courts and which is now the Tennis Courts University of Birmingham Halls of Residence.

The very first Olympic Lawn Tennis Champion John Mary Pius Boland, an Irish orphan was educated at The Birmingham Oratory School in Hagley Road before winning both singles and doubles gold medals at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

Bob Holland is hoping to raise some money to put in place a small monumental commemoration to Major Harry Gem as the inventor of Lawn Tennis at his recently discovered grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery in Birmingham’s world famous Jewellery Quarter

Keith Bracey, Leader of the ‘Birmingham Tennis Trail’ (4 photos)

Birmingham......'The Home of Tennis'!

The Grave of the inventor of Lawn Tennis Now Major Harry Gem was found in Warstone Lane Cemetery in 2013. Robert Holland, a local tennis historian is hoping to commemorate the role that Major Harry Gem played in the growth of Lawn Tennis in Birmingham and the wider world with a small monument to Gem at Warstone Lane Cemetery as the founder of Lawn Tennis in Edgbaston, Birmingham which is the home of Lawn Tennis.

Birmingham Warstone Lane Cemetery, also called Brookfield Cemetery.

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Warstone Lane Cemetery, also called Brookfield Cemetery, Mint Cemetery or Church of England Cemetery, was built in 1847.

Made in Birmingham

Made in Birmingham......Lawn Tennis, the first Football League, the first Professional Cricket League, the Birmingham League, the first aluminium tennis racquet, the very first plastic, invented by Alexander Parkess in Birmingham in 1858 and named eponymously by Parkes: 'Parkesine', Gas Lighting by William Murdoch one of The Lunar Men, along with James Watt's Steam Engines which led to the Industrial Revolution, 'Watt's Revolution' at The Soho Foundry where steam power was harnessed for the Industrial Revolution, the Land Rover UK Defender, the Austin Mini, the Jaguar UK from Castle Bromwich which is where the Spitfires which won the Battle of Britain in 1940 were made and which helped Great Britain win the Second World War......so many things were Made In Birmingham. Reggae Punk Bhangra, not to mention Heavy Metal by Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne......Black Sabbath.......Rock On! Birmingham!

Birmingham's finest inventions

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According to the Patent Office, of the approx 4,000 inventions copyrighted annually, about two thirds come from within a radius of 35 miles from Birmingham.

welovebearwood: Heads You Win!

welovebearwood: Heads You Win!: We had heard great things on the Bearwood Grapevine about Heads Hair Co on Bearwood High Street so we decided to pop in and see if we cou...

welovebearwood: Lightwoods...Camera....Action!

welovebearwood: Lightwoods...Camera....Action!:    Photo Credit: Ken Harrison Photography  Local photographer, Ken Harrison, loves taking photos of Smethwick's beauti...

Birmingham Is Best For New Business | Custard Factory

Birmingham Is Best For New Business | Custard Factory

Matthew Boulton - Father of Birmingham

Black Country Dialect.mpg

I Vow To Thee Black Country - The Empty Can

Christmas in Birmingham 2013 - #ChristmasNowTrendingInBirmingham

welovebearwood: Dish It Up!

welovebearwood: Dish It Up!: We needed to go and calm ourselves down when we heard that David Essex's back in town in the new Dishwashers play. What a dish! The R...

welovebearwood: Caroline's Chilean Creation

welovebearwood: Caroline's Chilean Creation: Autumn & Meadow Gathering Goddesses Photo Credit: Caroline Jariwala Bearwood based mosaic artist, Caroline Jariwala, has been s...

http://www.macearchive.org/archive.html?Title=18015.....King Kong....Brummie Ikong!

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Gangsters- Series One - Incident Two (3 of 6)

The History of Birmingham, England - Industrial Revelations S01 E06 - Co...

Birmingham, UK......Handsworth in Birmingham, brilliant vibrant part of the city of Birmingham!