It is a leading cultural event in the West Midlands, United Kingdom attracting not only the Bangladeshi diaspora but a variety of cultures. [125] Between 1961 and 1990 Birmingham Airport averaged 13.0 days of snow lying annually,[126] compared to 5.33 at London Heathrow. 3 reviews of City of Birmingham Police Department "Spending three weeks in a city, you sometimes have an opportunity to see their law enforcement at work. Birmingham is also home to professional Rugby Union clubs such as Birmingham Moseley and Birmingham & Solihull. Place names ending in -ingahām are characteristic of primary settlements established during the early phases of Anglo-Saxon colonisation of an area, suggesting that Birmingham was probably in existence by the early 7th century at the latest. [260] Birmingham is planning a Clean Air Zone from 2020, which will charge polluting vehicles to travel into the city centre. Jul 27, 2016 - This Pin was discovered by Helen Ramji. [239] Recent years have seen these businesses increasingly showcased at farmers markets,[240] popular street food events[241] and food festivals including Birmingham Independent Food Fair.[242][243]. The Football League – the world's first league football competition – was founded by Birmingham resident and Aston Villa director William McGregor, who wrote to fellow club directors in 1888 proposing "that ten or twelve of the most prominent clubs in England combine to arrange home-and-away fixtures each season". [67] In 1741 they opened the world's first cotton mill in Birmingham's Upper Priory. On 23 November 1981, during a record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak, two tornadoes touched down within the Birmingham city limits – in Erdington and Selly Oak – with six tornadoes touching down within the boundaries of the wider West Midlands county. [189] Other producing theatres in the city include the Blue Orange Theatre in the Jewellery Quarter; the Old Rep, home stage of the Birmingham Stage Company; and @ A. E. Harris, the base of the experimental Stan's Cafe theatre company, located within a working metal fabricators' factory. Built: No.6235 was built in 1939 at Crewe. Passed King Edward's School, Birmingham, founded in 1552 by King Edward VI, is one of the oldest schools in the city, teaching GCSE and IB, with alumni including J R R Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings books and The Hobbit. Birmingham Museums Trust runs other museums in the city including Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Soho House and Sarehole Mill. [144] 57% of primary and 52% of secondary pupils are from non-White British families.[145]. [223] The city's largest single-day event is its St. Patrick's Day parade (Europe's second largest, after Dublin). [214] It also holds a significant selection of old masters – including major works by Bellini, Rubens, Canaletto and Claude – and particularly strong collections of 17th-century Italian Baroque painting and English watercolours. [162], Manufacturing accounted for 8% of employment within Birmingham in 2012, a figure beneath the average for the UK as a whole. Females represented 51.6% of the population whilst men represented 48.4%. [86] Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls first described how a practical nuclear weapon could be constructed in the Frisch–Peierls memorandum of 1940,[87] the same year that the cavity magnetron, the key component of radar and later of microwave ovens, was invented by John Randall and Henry Boot. [81] Alexander Parkes invented the first man-made plastic in the Jewellery Quarter in 1855. [299] Most of Birmingham's state schools are community schools run directly by Birmingham City Council in its role as local education authority (LEA), although there are also voluntary aided schools within the state system. [36] This established Birmingham as the primary commercial centre for the Birmingham Plateau at a time when the area's economy was expanding rapidly, with population growth nationally leading to the clearance, cultivation and settlement of previously marginal land. The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham are expected to generate a £526 million boost to the West Midlands regional economy. This compares with an estimated rate of 9.1% for the previous decade.[142]. It's asking the state of Michigan and Oakland County if it can receive COVID-19 vaccine doses so paramedics can inoculate the city… [191], The Birmingham Opera Company under artistic director Graham Vick has developed an international reputation for its avant-garde productions,[192] which often take place in factories, abandoned buildings and other found spaces around the city. Alexander Stadium, which will host the ceremonies and athletics, will be renovated and the capacity will be increased to 40,000 seats. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous and fifth largest county. Old streets, buildings and canals have been restored, the pedestrian subways have been removed and the Inner Ring Road has been rationalised. [305], The former Birmingham Central Library, opened in 1972, was considered to be the largest municipal library in Europe. [146] There are generally more females than males in each single year of age, except for the youngest ages (0–18) and late-30s and late-50s. Fax Number:205- 254-2963. [229] It is also the largest kind of boat race in the United Kingdom. [337] It is played annually at the Edgbaston Priory Club, which in 2010 announced plans for a multimillion-pound redevelopment, including a new showcase centre court and a museum celebrating the game's Birmingham origins.[338]. [345] Birmingham is the location for several British and international film productions including Felicia's Journey of 1999, which used locations in Birmingham that were used in Take Me High of 1973 to contrast the changes in the city. Instead of the economies of scale of a low-paid, unskilled workforce producing a single bulk commodity such as cotton or wool in large, mechanised units of production, Birmingham's industrial development was built on the adaptability and creativity of a highly paid workforce with a strong division of labour, practising a broad variety of skilled specialist trades and producing a constantly diversifying range of products, in a highly entrepreneurial economy of small, often self-owned workshops. [94][95][96], Birmingham remained by far Britain's most prosperous provincial city as late as the 1970s,[97] with household incomes exceeding even those of London and the South East,[98] but its economic diversity and capacity for regeneration declined in the decades that followed World War II as Central Government sought to restrict the city's growth and disperse industry and population to the stagnating areas of Wales and Northern England. This [134] The city has over six million trees,[135] and 250 miles (400 kilometres) of urban brooks and streams. Birmingham has three mainstream digital-only news publishers, I Am Birmingham, Birmingham Updates and Second City. Birmingham (bûr`mĭnghăm') 1 City (1990 pop. 2,519 were here. [89], The city was extensively redeveloped during the 1950s and 1960s. Surrounding this is Birmingham's metropolitan area – the area to which it is closely economically tied through commuting – which includes the former Mercian capital of Tamworth and the cathedral city of Lichfield in Staffordshire to the north; the industrial city of Coventry and the Warwickshire towns of Nuneaton, Warwick and Leamington Spa to the east; and the Worcestershire towns of Redditch and Bromsgrove to the south west. Music was specially composed, conducted or performed by Mendelssohn, Gounod, Sullivan, Dvořák, Bantock and Edward Elgar, who wrote four of his most famous choral pieces for Birmingham. Birmingham has a long cinematic history; The Electric on Station Street is the oldest working cinema in the UK. [171] In the inner-city wards of Aston and Washwood Heath, the figure is higher than 30%. [105] Labour replaced the previous no overall control status at the May 2012 elections. [300][301] Independent schools in the city include the Birmingham Blue Coat School, King Edward VI High School for Girls and Edgbaston High School for Girls. Birmingham is drained only by minor rivers and brooks, primarily the River Tame and its tributaries the Cole and the Rea. [258] The city is served by the M5, M6, M40, and M42 motorways, and possibly the most well known motorway junction in the United Kingdom: Spaghetti Junction, a colloquial name for the Gravelly Hill Interchange. This is a strategic local government policy used to prevent urban sprawl and preserve greenfield land. The city is served by numerous national and regional radio stations, as well as hyperlocal radio stations. [331][332] The city also has a Rugby League club, the Birmingham Bulldogs. [31] The many burnt mounds that can still be seen around the city indicate that modern humans first intensively settled and cultivated the area during the Bronze Age, when a substantial but short-lived influx of population occurred between 1700 BC and 1000 BC, possibly caused by conflict or immigration in the surrounding area. The Watt steam engine was invented in Birmingham.[17]. [233], Birmingham based breweries included Ansells, Davenport's and Mitchells & Butlers. Birmingham is also the hub for various national ethnic media, lifestyle magazines, digital news platforms, and the base for two regional Metro editions (East and West Midlands). Birmingham is home to many national, religious and spiritual festivals including a St. George's Day party. It is the second-largest city, urban area and metropolitan area in England and the United Kingdom,[b] with roughly 1.1 million inhabitants within the city area, 2.9 million inhabitants within the urban area and 4.3 million inhabitants within the metropolitan area and lies within the most populated English district. What are synonyms for City of Birmingham? Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius had its début performance there in 1900. [214] The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Edgbaston is one of the finest small art galleries in the world,[215] with a collection of exceptional quality representing Western art from the 13th century to the present day.[216]. City centre improvements and … Birmingham is the largest local Authority area and city in the UK outside of London. St Mary's College, Oscott is one of the three seminaries of the Catholic Church in England and Wales;[289] Woodbrooke is the only Quaker study centre in Europe;[290] and Queen's College, Edgbaston is an ecumenical theological college serving the Church of England, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church. You can now open or renew business licenses and file taxes online or in person at City Hall. Weather station is located 7 miles (11 km) from the Birmingham city centre. [213], Birmingham has two major public art collections. The City of Birmingham is pleased to offer employees a flexible spending account (FSA) benefit. The City of Birmingham, Michigan is located approximately halfway between the City of Detroit and the City of Pontiac, in Oakland County. [174], According to the 2014 Mercer Quality of Living Survey, Birmingham was placed 51st in the world, which was the second highest rating in the UK. [157][158], Today, the economy of Birmingham is dominated by the service sector, which in 2012 accounted for 88% of the city's employment. [292] South & City College Birmingham has nine campuses spread throughout the city. Many buildings in the area are disused but plans are in place for redevelopment including in Shadwell Street and Vesey Street. The principal governing institutions of medieval Birmingham – including the Guild of the Holy Cross and the lordship of the de Birmingham family – collapsed between 1536 and 1547,[40] leaving the town with an unusually high degree of social and economic freedom and initiating a period of transition and growth. Please register or login to see details of all open opportunities. Warwickshire County Cricket Club play at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, which also hosts test cricket and one day internationals and is the largest cricket ground in the United Kingdom after Lord's. [88] Details of these two discoveries, together with an outline of the first jet engine invented by Frank Whittle in nearby Rugby, were taken to the United States by the Tizard Mission in September 1940, in a single black box later described by an official American historian as "the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores". [71] In 1765 Matthew Boulton opened the Soho Manufactory, pioneering the combination and mechanisation under one roof of previously separate manufacturing activities through a system known as "rational manufacture". [72] As the largest manufacturing unit in Europe, this came to symbolise the emergence of the factory system. [53] The close relationship between Enlightenment Birmingham's leading thinkers and its major manufacturers[54] – in men like Matthew Boulton and James Keir they were often in fact the same people[55] – made it particularly important for the exchange of knowledge between pure science and the practical world of manufacturing and technology. Despite the industrialisation of subsequent centuries this role has been retained and the Birmingham Wholesale Markets remain the largest combined wholesale food markets in the country,[231] selling meat, fish, fruit, vegetables and flowers and supplying fresh produce to restaurateurs and independent retailers from as far as 100 miles (161 km) away. 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[236] The Balti, a type of curry, was invented in the city, which has received much acclaim for the 'Balti Belt' or 'Balti Triangle'. Other notable professional orchestras based in the city include the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and Ex Cathedra, a Baroque chamber choir and period instrument orchestra. [249], Postwar redevelopment and anti-Victorianism resulted in the loss of dozens of Victorian buildings like New Street station and the old Central Library, often replaced by brutalist architecture. Since 2001, the population has grown by 99,500, or 10.1%. [120] Some 11.2 days each year rose to a temperature of 25.1 °C (77.2 °F) or above[121] and 51.6 nights reported an air frost. Established migrants outnumbered newer migrants in all wards except for, Edgbaston, Ladywood, Nechells and Selly Oak. But that will happen to the existing site? The first dedicated comedy club outside of London, The Glee Club, was opened in The Arcadian Centre, city centre, in 1994, and continues to host performances by leading regional, national and international acts. [182] The city was a centre for early heavy metal music,[183] with pioneering metal bands from the late 1960s and 1970s such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and half of Led Zeppelin having come from Birmingham. There are a number of late night pubs in the Irish Quarter. Antonyms for City of Birmingham. Its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121.1bn (2014),[2] and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. The recession of the early 1980s saw Birmingham's economy collapse, with unprecedented levels of unemployment and outbreaks of social unrest in inner-city districts. [104] Its headquarters are at the Council House in Victoria Square. [148], 25.9% of all households owned their accommodation outright, another 29.3% owned their accommodation with a mortgage or loan. [285] Birmingham has 32,690 research students, also the highest number of any major city outside London.[286]. [169], Economic inequality within Birmingham is greater than in any other major English city, and is exceeded only by Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Since the 1970s, most secondary schools in Birmingham have been 11-–-16/18 comprehensive schools, while post GCSE students have the choice of continuing their education in either a school's sixth form or at a further education college. Birmingham's other city-centre music venues include Arena Birmingham (previously known as the National Indoor Arena and the Barclaycard Arena), which was opened in 1991, O2 Academy on Bristol Street, which opened in September 2009 replacing the O2 Academy in Dale End, the CBSO Centre, opened in 1997, HMV Institute in Digbeth and the Bradshaw Hall at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. City of Birmingham | 3,301 followers on LinkedIn. [306] Six of its collections were designated by the Arts Council England as being "pre-eminent collections of national and international importance", out of only eight collections to be so recognised in local authority libraries nationwide. [15] By 1791, it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town in the world". [214] Its design holdings include Europe's pre-eminent collections of ceramics and fine metalwork. Jazz has been popular in the city since the 1920s,[181] and there are many regular festivals such as the Harmonic Festival, the Mostly Jazz Festival and the annual International Jazz Festival. [168] Birmingham was behind only London and Edinburgh for private sector job creation between 2010 and 2013. Funding for many of these projects has come from the European Union; the Town Hall for example received £3 million in funding from the European Regional Development Fund. [264], Birmingham New Street is the busiest railway station in the UK outside London, both for passenger entries/exits and for passenger interchanges. The city was also the scene of two scientific discoveries that were to prove critical to the outcome of the war. Birmingham is an important centre for religious education. [277], An extensive canal system still remains in Birmingham from the Industrial Revolution. [218] Other science-based museums include the National Sea Life Centre in Brindleyplace, the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham and the Centre of the Earth environmental education centre in Winson Green. [29], There is evidence of early human activity in the Birmingham area dating back to around 8000 BC,[30] with Stone Age artifacts suggesting seasonal settlements, overnight hunting parties and woodland activities such as tree felling. Two-fifths of Birmingham's population live in areas classified as in the 10% most deprived parts of England, and overall Birmingham is the most deprived local authority in England in terms of income and employment deprivation. Birmingham artists were prominent in several post-war developments in art: Peter Phillips was among the central figures in the birth of Pop Art;[206] John Salt was the only major European figure among the pioneers of photo-realism;[207] and the BLK Art Group used painting, collage and multimedia to examine the politics and culture of Black British identity. Email updates include a wide range of topics, such as COVID-19 updates, Citywide Master Plan public input opportunities, announcements from local and state government, and … [19] Major industrial plants within the city include Jaguar Land Rover in Castle Bromwich and Cadbury in Bournville, with large local producers also supporting a supply chain of precision-based small manufacturers and craft industries. The West Midlands conurbation had a population of 2,441,00 (2011 est.,), and 2,762,700 people live in the West Midlands (county) (2012 est.,). A few other buildings from the medieval and Tudor periods survive, among them the Lad in the Lane[245] and The Old Crown, the 15th century Saracen's Head public house and Old Grammar School in Kings Norton[246] and Blakesley Hall. Birmingham is the largest city of the West Midlands conurbation—one of England’s principal industrial and commercial areas—for which it acts as an administrative, recreational, and cultural centre. Iconic works by Birmingham designers include the Baskerville font,[209] Ruskin Pottery,[210] the Acme Thunderer whistle,[211] the Art Deco branding of the Odeon Cinemas[212] and the Mini. [234] Aston Manor Brewery is currently the only brewery of any significant size. After a review and reflection of my time with the City, I … [176] An area of the city has been designated an enterprise zone, with tax relief and simplified planning to lure investment. Data calculated from raw monthly long term data for BHX. Today, the city is home of two of the country's oldest professional football teams: Aston Villa F.C., which was founded in 1874 and plays at Villa Park; and Birmingham City F.C., which was founded in 1875 and plays at St Andrew's. The network includes: the busiest urban rail system in the UK outside London, with 122 million passenger entries and exits per annum;[271] the UK's busiest urban bus system outside London, with 300.2 million passenger journeys per annum;[272] and the West Midlands Metro, a light rail system that operates between Library in Central Birmingham and Wolverhampton via Bilston, Wednesbury and West Bromwich. [149], The Birmingham Larger Urban Zone, a Eurostat measure of the functional city-region approximated to local government districts, has a population of 2,357,100 in 2004. The Gun Quarter is an industrial area to the north of the city centre, bounded by Steelhouse Lane, Shadwell Street, and Loveday Street, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns. [280][281][282], Birmingham is home to five universities: Aston University, University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University College Birmingham and Newman University. Births are up 20% since 2001, increasing from 14,427 to 17,423 in 2011. Birmingham is commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom. [247] St Chad's Cathedral was the first Roman Catholic cathedral to be built in the UK since the Reformation. Nightlife in Birmingham is mainly concentrated along Broad Street and into Brindleyplace. ran until the start of the war in 1939, on the West Coast Main Line between London (Euston station) and Glasgow (Central station), stopping at Carlisle for crew change and to pick up and set down passengers [118] Between 1971 and 2000 the warmest day of the year on average was 28.8 °C (83.8 °F)[119] and the coldest night typically fell to −9.0 °C (15.8 °F). To the south west of the city lie the Lickey Hills,[111] Clent Hills and Walton Hill, which reach 1,033 feet (315 m) and have extensive views over the city. Birmingham's local public transport network is co-ordinated by Transport for West Midlands. The population density is 10,391 inhabitants per square mile (4,102/km2) compared to the 976.9 inhabitants per square mile (377.2/km2) for England. Musicians Jeff Lynne, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, John Lodge, Roy Wood, Joan Armatrading, Toyah Willcox, Denny Laine, Sukshinder Shinda, Apache Indian, Steve Winwood, Jamelia, Oceans Ate Alaska, Fyfe Dangerfield and Laura Mvula all grew up in the city. [267] Birmingham Moor Street and Birmingham Snow Hill form the northern termini for Chiltern Railways express trains running from London Marylebone. [324] Birmingham was the first city to be named National City of Sport by the Sports Council. The National Indoor Arena hosted the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2003 and 2018 World Indoor Championships, as well as hosting the annual Aviva Indoor Grand Prix – the only British indoor athletics fixture to qualify as an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting[341] – and a wide variety of other sporting events. [228], The Nowka Bais is a Bengali boat racing festival which takes place annually in Birmingham. Other general hospitals in the city include Heartlands Hospital in Bordesley Green, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and City Hospital in Winson Green. [161] With major facilities such as the National Exhibition Centre and International Convention Centre Birmingham attracts 42% of the UK's total conference and exhibition trade. Birmingham City Council is made up of 9 members & is the legislative branch of the city government as defined by the Mayor-Council Act of Alabama. The Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr is the headquarters of UK Athletics,[339] and one of only two British venues to host fixtures in the elite international IAAF Diamond League. [302], In Birmingham libraries, leisure centres, parks, play areas, transport, street cleaning and waste collection face cuts among other services. Andrew Glover Ring, is recorded in Birmingham and thirteen scheduled ancient monuments Chinese are... 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