@JonNeale

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Joined January 2011
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When people wonder why we can’t have a greater Birmingham rather than a “West midlands urban area”, or when urban economists scratch their heads over local parochialism, I think they should just read some history.
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How the “a” in last was pronounced in the first half of the 20th century in different parts of England.
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Chance Brothers made all the glass for the Crystal Palace
Birmingham Archives & Collections@TheIronRoomOct 24
#CityOf1000Trades Chance Brothers glassworks were based in Smethwick but members of the family owned factories in Birmingham. This plate for a staircase window is in a 1867 catalogue. Ref – Birmingham trade catalogue collection @LibraryofBham @sandwelllibs @SandwellArchive
A coloured plate - an arts & crafts frame around the plate. Text at the top of the plate reads - staircase window. Text at the bottom reads Chance Brothers, 1867. An ornate design chiefly consisting of images of flora and fauna. A rhombus in the centre of the illustration. Inside the shape is a relief of a female figure, possibly a mythical deity. She is holding a long garland in her left hand and has another in her lap. A large billowy cape is across her shoulders.

ALT A coloured plate - an arts & crafts frame around the plate. Text at the top of the plate reads - staircase window. Text at the bottom reads Chance Brothers, 1867. An ornate design chiefly consisting of images of flora and fauna. A rhombus in the centre of the illustration. Inside the shape is a relief of a female figure, possibly a mythical deity. She is holding a long garland in her left hand and has another in her lap. A large billowy cape is across her shoulders.

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It would be much better if we just called pentagons and hexagons fivecorners and sixcorners like the Germans. Why should maths or science be a Greek lesson in disguise?
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This of course has nothing to do with Birmingham’s recent productivity struggles.
Stuart Budd@StuartBudd1Oct 23
Replying to @MattCJBaker @Eddystone506 @CaptainSwing666
The decline of the British car industry came in two Brexit stages. 1. Uncertainty post-referendum weakened the industry 2. Trade arrangements that replaced EU membership did lasting damage. ukandeu.ac.uk/from-pace-sett…
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I see jackdaw is managing to have no impact on anything while simultaneously contributing hugely to the climate crisis.
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I wish people would stop talking so much about growf. What this country needs is a reassertion of the “th” sound.
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Placeless car-dominated sprawl. Fails to adequately address the street or take advantage of the opportunities presented by its canalside location. Not dense enough, too much road and too much parking given that the occupants are the least likely demographic to own them. Object.
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الطريق الى ملعب برايتون 🤩💙 #BHACRY
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If you go back to 1900 or so, the average Black Country worker was Methodist, relatively unskilled a trade union member, voted for the emerging Labour Party and worked for a big enterprise in coal or basic metal production with no chance of him becoming an owner. In contrast….
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The average Brummie was a relatively skilled Anglican, wouldn’t go near a trade union, voted liberal unionist and worked for a small artisan or engineering business, maybe hoping one day to become a “master” himself. No other UK conurbation has such strongly diverging histories
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What our great-grandfathers actually thought of Victorian architecture.
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My old copy of “music for the jilted generation” was being played last night. The insert is an interesting artefact
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Evening Chris Bell - You and your Sister youtu.be/m-yvdIHOdxw?is=Bodf… via @YouTube

Chris Bell - You and your Sister

Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos [1992](Recorded : 1973-78)

youtube.com
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These were my formative 90s albums. Sod your b***pop
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I was just trying to tell my daughters what the nineties were really like. Seeing Suede in their early days supporting Kingmaker at the Birmingham Institute in 1992. Vile homophobic abuse screamed at Brett Anderson for the entire gig. Wasn’t just Brum, happened at every date
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Ashdown Forest, heart of the Sussex Weald, yesterday
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Bit more
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Of all the Americanisms that have entered our language and I’ve hated over my lifetime, and there are many, the recent adoption of “Anglo” is a particular low point
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