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Sentence Examples Health workers held lunchtime rallies outside several hospitals, including in London, Birmingham and Sheffield. Birmingham City made the claim in a statement yesterday after turning down a second bid from Rovers for the want-away Welsh midfielder. And never forget we came within an ace of doing the same in Birmingham Hodge Hill as well. In 1911 he was elected a Birmingham Councillor, becoming an alderman in 1914 and, in 1915, Lord Mayor of Birmingham. A previous gentlemen's agreement between Robbie and Cliff Birmingham, honoured years before, is now paid back in spades. He left school without qualifications and was a shop assistant before becoming a manual worker for Birmingham Council. In April 2000 Popa accepted a position with the City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club. I thought I spotted you in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, last week, accompanying Nigel Kennedy. A second address in Birmingham was also raided, the entire door wrenched from its frame as police arrested three men inside. He was discovered trying to board his Ryanair flight to London and Birmingham with a gun in his washbag. Michael Duberry admits that he has mixed feelings about being recalled to the Leeds team for tomorrow's FA Cup tie at Birmingham. There were walkouts of council workers in neighbourhood offices around Birmingham. His Wagner tuba was an especially fine instrument, made by the Stradivarius Gadget Works in Birmingham. Any hopes Birmingham had of getting back into the match were killed off by Wayne Rooney with a 78th minute goal. There is in our experience a ready availability of accommodation at our disposal locally in Birmingham. Strange as it may seem, Birmingham has become one of the most important cities for reggae outside Jamaica. And Birmingham TV just showed one watery shot from New Orleans, and there appears to be serious flooding there. Two days later Flintshire County Council lodged an appeal to the Family Division of the High Court, sitting in Birmingham, to make the twins wards of court. That drove a wedge between the pair that ultimately led to Dunn rejecting the offer of a new contract in the summer and deciding on a move to Birmingham. The case was brought after complaints from electors in the Bordesley Green and Aston wards of Birmingham city council that their votes had been stolen. Show More Sentences Executives mostly lived west of Interstate 75, in the northwest suburbs of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills. The Saab makes its way slowly through Bloomfield Hills, the tony Detroit suburb next to Birmingham. Since then, of course, he has sold everything that comes off the desk in the study in Birmingham to Hollywood. Black people of Birmingham, Alabama aroused the conscience of this nation and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. Pete stuck his thumb out at the age of 17 and hitch hiked out of Birmingham, England. Big Screen Birmingham airs the live event from the Royal Albert Hall. It is resident at the Birmingham Hippodrome and tours extensively nationally and internationally. Literary figures associated with Birmingham include Samuel Johnson who stayed in Birmingham for a short period and was born in nearby Lichfield. Arthur Conan Doyle worked in the Aston area of Birmingham whilst poet Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham for six years. The Birmingham School of landscape artists emerged with Daniel Bond in the 1760s and was to last into the mid 19th century. Nightlife in Birmingham is mainly concentrated along Broad Street and into Brindleyplace. There are 1,946 listed buildings in Birmingham and thirteen scheduled ancient monuments. Birmingham City Council also operate a locally listing scheme for buildings that do not fully meet the criteria for statutorily listed status. Traces of medieval Birmingham can be seen in the oldest churches, notably the original parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring. Partly because of its central location, Birmingham is a major transport hub on the motorway, rail and canal networks. Birmingham Moor Street and Birmingham Snow Hill form the northern termini for Chiltern Railways express trains running from London Marylebone. Although Priestley considered moving to America, he eventually accepted Birmingham New Meeting's offer to be their minister. Since 2001, Birmingham has also been host to the Frankfurt Christmas Market. The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the 1860s, before spreading around the world. The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham. Show More Sentences Other large airports include Manchester Airport, London Stansted Airport, Luton Airport and Birmingham Airport. Other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. Paul and Wyatt opened a mill in Birmingham which used their new rolling machine powered by a donkey. The Chiltern Main Line is a major commuter line between Birmingham and London passing through central Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important location for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Manchester and Birmingham have traditionally competed as frontrunners for this unofficial title. Perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. People from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the city's nickname of Brum. Within a century of the charter Birmingham had grown into a prosperous urban centre of merchants and craftsmen. Birmingham City Council is the largest Its headquarters are at the Council House in Victoria Square. Until 1986, the West Midlands County Council was based in Birmingham City Centre. Birmingham is drained only by minor rivers and brooks, primarily the River Tame and its tributaries the Cole and the Rea. The bedrock underlying Birmingham was mostly laid down during the Permian and Triassic periods. Like most other large cities, Birmingham has a considerable urban heat island effect. Birmingham is a snowy city relative to other large UK conurbations, due to its inland location and comparatively high elevation. The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands is also based at Birmingham, with a cathedral under construction. A short distance from Five Ways the Birmingham Oratory was completed in 1910 on the site of Cardinal Newman's original foundation. The oldest surviving synagogue in Birmingham is the 1825 Greek Revival Severn Street Synagogue, now a Freemasons' Lodge hall. Economic inequality within Birmingham is greater than in any other major English city, and is exceeded only by Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Show More Sentences During the 1960s Birmingham was the home of a music scene comparable to that of Liverpool. The Birmingham Royal Ballet is one of the United Kingdom's five major ballet companies and one of three based outside London. Stuart Paterson wrote a stage adaptation in 2004, first produced by the Birmingham Old Rep in 2004 and published in 2007 by Nick Hern Books. England is also home to the world's first football league, which was founded in Birmingham in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. After the narrow failure to qualify for Euro 2008, McLeish left to join Premier League club Birmingham City. Aston Villa Football Club were formed in March 1874, by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Handsworth which is now part of Birmingham. Their support is also not restricted to the town, with bases in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Northamptonshire, the South and North Wales. One of his daughters, Carmen aged four, was taken to hospital in Birmingham with two gun shot wounds and survived. Khan fought on 21 June 2008, at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham against Irishman Michael Gomez. The Black Country is an area of the West Midlands in England, West of Birmingham, including Dudley, Walsall and Sandwell. The Black Country boroughs form part of the Birmingham metropolitan economy, the second largest in the United Kingdom. The university has branch campuses in both London and Birmingham, and an extensive distance learning provision. Additionally, two further branch campuses in both London and Birmingham in England deliver courses. The London campus is in Holborn, and the Birmingham campus is in the Centre City Tower. The area of conurbation between Birmingham and Wolverhampton is known as the Black Country. The most influential of these was the Birmingham Political Union, led by Thomas Attwood. For cities that had a developed motor industry such as Birmingham, Coventry and Oxford, the 1930s were also a boom time. Dublin, London and Birmingham were also affected, albeit to a lesser degree than Northern Ireland itself. Although marginally behind the UK average, Glasgow still has a higher employment rate than Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. Gibraltar maintains regular flight connections to London, Birmingham and Manchester. Show More Sentences Monarch Airlines operates a daily scheduled service between Gibraltar and Luton, London Gatwick Airport, Birmingham and Manchester. The reason given by Lecount for the rope working was the London and Birmingham Railway Act of Parliament, by which he said they were 'restricted. The line skirts the east of Birmingham with a branch to the proposed new Birmingham Curzon Street station. Prior to announcement of the HS2 station, Birmingham City University had planned to build a new campus in Eastside. The construction of the Grand Union Canal in the 1790s linked Leicester to London and Birmingham. The settlements with large number of Muslims are Bradford, Luton, Blackburn, Birmingham, London and Dewsbury. Edgar was born in Birmingham, England, into the fourth generation of a theatrical family. On the same day as he receives the call from his chapel, he learns that Uncle James has died in prison in Birmingham. In 1817 Murdoch moved into a large new house he had built outside Birmingham. In Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, not yet a Member of Parliament, was a prominent campaigner on the issue. Edinburgh Airport is the nearest international airport to Glenrothes, Dundee Airport operates daily flights to London, Birmingham and Belfast. Other units include Birmingham Midshires, a mortgage and savings brand, and Intelligent Finance. The locations included Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London. The following year the London and Birmingham Railway was completed, connecting to the capital via Coventry, Rugby and the Watford Gap. Notable examples were Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Stafford, Coventry and London Euston. There are three trains per hour from Birmingham New Street to London Euston. After the Central Trains franchise was revised, London Midland took over services running on the WCML between Birmingham and Liverpool. It is also the mainline station for services to and through Birmingham New Street, and to Holyhead for connecting ferries to Dublin. After speaking at a meeting in Birmingham, Lloyd George had to be smuggled out disguised as a policeman, as his life was in danger from the mob. There are direct services from London Euston and Birmingham to Holyhead via the North Wales Coast. Show More Sentences Oswestry Cricket Club compete in the Birmingham and District Premier League which is the oldest cricket league in the country. Intercity services call at Ruabon railway station en route to destinations including Cardiff, Birmingham, Chester, Manchester and Holyhead. There is a daily National Express coach to London and Birmingham, along with local bus services within the town and into the surrounding area. Some members of the Black British community were involved in the 2001 Harehills race riot and 2005 Birmingham race riots. Racial tensions between blacks and Asians in Birmingham increased after the deaths of three Asian men at the hands of a black youth. A survey undertaken in Birmingham in 1956 found that only 15 of a total of 1,000 white people surveyed would let a room to a black tenant. Evidence from Bradford and Birmingham have shown, Pakistanis originate largely from the Mirpur District in Azad Kashmir. Watkins met Gwen, who came from Harborne, Birmingham, at Bletchley Park, where he worked during the Second World War as a cryptographer. In 1948, Mary Woodall, keeper of art at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, organized a pioneer exhibition of his work. Despite a revenge victory over Newcastle United, defeats to Birmingham City, Luton Town and Manchester City sealed their fate. On 7 June 1810 he made a successful first appearance as Romeo at Birmingham. The services from Birmingham New Street to Chester, Aberystwyth, and Pwllheli operated by Central Trains were also transferred. Holyhead services run every hour, to Shrewsbury via Chester and Wrexham General, then alternately to Birmingham International or Cardiff Central. Cambrian Line services consist of trains from Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury, Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International every two hours. Hungry Berbatov then converted a Giggs cross for his third before Nani slotted a fifth with Birmingham on their knees. Oolitic hematite occurs at Red Mountain near Birmingham, Alabama, along with oolitic limestone. Further, Coventry's prosperity and rapid growth was threatening that it as well as Birmingham would require to overspill its boundaries. Six's headquarters were to be in London, with regional task forces in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution. The M5 motorway to Bristol and Exeter starts at Birmingham, and connects at Bristol with the M4 to London and South Wales. Show More Sentences Another main line, the Cross Country Route, links Exeter with Bristol, Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. However, the BBC's network production units located in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester also make radio programmes. Under this name, it visited Derry in Northern Ireland, as part of the Music Lives campaign, and Perry Park in Birmingham. He later studied to be a teacher at the University of Birmingham and Henley Management College. In 1994 he stood in the European elections for Birmingham East, coming second again to Labour. Its largest city is Birmingham, and the region was important in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Church Mission Society Archive is housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. There is only one recorded King's Bench case, R v Proprietors of Birmingham Canal Navigation, in which Blackstone and Mansfield disagreed. Bright coined this famous phrase on 18 January 1865 in a speech at Birmingham supporting an expansion of the franchise. On 27 October 1858, he launched his campaign for parliamentary reform at Birmingham Town Hall. He delivered the opening address for the Birmingham Central Library in 1882, and in 1888 the city erected a statue of him. The marble statue, by Albert Joy, was in store until it was recently restored to a prominent position in the Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum. His second wife died in 1844 and was buried at St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, England, which he had designed. This followed a period of employment when Pugin had worked with Barry on the interior design of King Edward's School, Birmingham. Chad's Cathedral, Erdington Abbey, and Oscott College, all in Birmingham, England. In 1748 Lewis Paul of Birmingham, England, invented two hand driven carding machines. In Birmingham in the early 1690s Darby was apprenticed to Jonathan Freeth, a fellow Quaker and a manufacturer of brass mills for grinding malt. In 1795, they began to make steam engines themselves at their Soho Foundry in Smethwick, near Birmingham, England. Fox machine tools were illustrated in contemporary literature and some survive as museum pieces in Birmingham and in Norway. Roebuck started medical practice at Birmingham, but devoted much of his time to chemistry, especially its practical applications. Show More Sentences He worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watt at their Soho Foundry steam engine works in Birmingham, England. A resident of Birmingham, his attention may have been roused by the exhibition at Soho. In the modern day, one major toll road is the M6 Toll, relieving traffic congestion on the M6 in Birmingham. An illustration of this is that there is no tunnel between Birmingham and Glasgow. The Duke of Wellington, pleading a prior commitment to attend a dinner in Birmingham, did not attend. He was an active member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham. In 1907 US Steel bought its largest competitor, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, which was headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. In late 1780 the nature of the society was to change again with the move to Birmingham of Joseph Priestley. In more recent times a new Lunar Society was formed in Birmingham by a group led by Dame Rachel Waterhouse. A number of noted University of Birmingham alumni have been involved with this societies committee. Past Presidents of the society have been published in academic journals, and featured on the University of Birmingham University Challenge team. She was buried alongside her mother in Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham. Handsworth and Perry Barr became part of the county borough of Birmingham in the early 20th century, and thus associated with Warwickshire. Several major roads intersect the county, making it a popular location for commuters working in Birmingham. Free Radio Birmingham covers Lichfield and Tamworth, and Free Radio Black Country covers the Cannock area. For example, Birmingham lies at the upper end of the Tame, and Leicester is located towards the head of the Soar. CrossCountry trains go to Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Birmingham and the South West. National Express operates three coach services to London each day, and one to Birmingham. This move was prompted in part by the Great Western Railway's plans for a railway north from Oxford to Birmingham. Other LNWR lines survive as part of commuter networks around major cities such as Birmingham and Manchester. Show More Sentences The former Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was left with the traffic to Birmingham and Bristol, an important seaport. The line south was the Birmingham and Bristol Railway, which reached Curzon Street via Camp Hill. The London and Birmingham Railway and its successor the London and North Western Railway had been under pressure from two directions. Firstly the Great Western Railway had been foiled in its attempt to enter Birmingham by the Midland, but it still had designs on Manchester. The Birmingham Mail revealed in February how Al Hijrah School in Bordesley Green is PS3 million in debt, while the building itself is crumbling. Teachers at one Birmingham, seiiool were this afternoon meeting to de-aide whether to drop sanctions or walk out themselves. Technology experts at Hammond Suddards Edge are warning Birmingham businesses to be on the lookout for warchalking. A SLICE of acerbic comedy Lily Savage-style is coming to central Birmingham next month. The Ackers activity centre, in Birmingham, is looking for competitors to leap 20 feet from a tower and conquer the zipwire. Two new weather stations have been installed in Birmingham to offer an insight into the potential impact of rising temperatures on the city. It was no surprise then that the city was bustling through the day as thousands roamed around the events for Birmingham Weekender. And the grand finale is the Birmingham Weekender, when the worlds of sport, shopping, arts, fashion and food collide for a massive event. Also, the Birmingham Mail allows you to advertise yourself in the Admail for FREE with up to 15 words. When I came to Birmingham, I used to continually whinge about the lack of choice. It is the latest creation from Birmingham firm Acme, who have been manufacturing whistles for 137 years. Only 17 per cent of Afro Caribbean boys in Birmingham achieved five or more GCSEs at grades A-C last year, compared to an average of 46 per cent. Among those who supported lowering the age of consent to 16 was the Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt Rev Mark Santer. A SERIAL burglar pretended to be a window cleaner after he was caught balancing on a ledge with his arm through the window of a Birmingham house. Simon, whose daughter Alannah lives in Birmingham, has enjoyed chart success since going solo with the hit Lay Your Hands. He will supervise ALCO properties in Memphis and Birmingham, including Presidential West Apartments. Show More Sentences Family firm Bodyguard Workwear has opened a new safety superstore in Birmingham after securing funding. The Birmingham office roof, which is currently home to a wormery and a bee hive, will also be welcoming a new nucleus of bees later this year. Police forced their way into a house and found Andrew Aston holding a 92-year-old man in a wristlock, Birmingham Crown Court heard. People on the telly, they try to do a a Birmingham accent and it ends up like a bit of a Yam Yam accent and a drone that nobody's heard of. A Birmingham mother may have taken amphetamines at a Midland jail before she was found hanged in her cell, an inquest heard yesterday. A CAR jacker who took a teenager on a terror ride through the streets of Birmingham has been jailed for three years at the city's Crown Court. Thus, grasping this stark reality, I am resigned to a certain amount of disruption as my jalopy splutters through no-go Birmingham. A TEENAGE dancer has quickstepped her way into an apprenticeship at a national security, cleaning and facilities company in Birmingham. Another 250,000 are set to jet off from Gatwick, 150,000 from Manchester, 124,000 from Stansted, 68,500 from Luton and 62,500 from Birmingham. Two-year-old Birmingham boy Daniel Douglas was killed after a radiogram fell on him while he was playing at home. He was yesterday jailed by a judger at Birmingham Crown Court for seven years after being convicted of conspiracy to steal at an earlier hearing. The UCE Birmingham Jitsu club won two golds and one silver at the 2007 Jitsu National Randori Championship, held at Aston Villa Leisure Centre. On claims the Junior Miss Birmingham pageant exploits teenage girls Let kids just be kids. The case was due to start at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday but a potential jury panel was told that the case will not start until next Monday. As an example, there are over 5,000 shops in Birmingham with rateable values below this threshold. A Birmingham man, Kalonji Stewart, 32, of Harborne, was charged with affray following the fracas but was cleared. Less than three months later he has secured a position as an arboriculturist working across Birmingham. Archeologists from the University of Birmingham are surveying at the Grade 1-listed Manor House, in West Bromwich. Hundreds of arctophiles will be flocking to Birmingham this weekend for the International Bears and Dolls Show. Agathe was also talking to Blackburn, Birmingham City and Leeds United about signing on and kick-starting his career. Show More Sentences Mahmood Red Route for Birmingham I find it difficult to understand the logic here. Peregrine falcons and black redstarts are among them, and both have been known to enjoy a city break in Birmingham. We aim to re-educate Birmingham and get the city drinking great cocktails once again. Three weeks after his speech Klansman bombed a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four little girls. She spent several years in the UK as repetitor for The Birmingham Royal Ballet School and on staff at the Junior Conservatoire in Birmingham. Keepers at Birmingham Nature Centre discovered the creature, named Babu, about a mile away from where it vanished. The Land Girls previewed at MAC, Cannon Hill, There's Something About Mary at Odeon, New St, Birmingham. Land Girls is the latest BBC series to shoot in Birmingham and the surrounding area, after Survivors and Hustle also relocated to the city. Sir, Residents in Birmingham don't currently have a say in whether lap dancing clubs can open in our area. The National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham has recruited masseuse Sherene Garry, aged 18, as chief backscratcher for Gulliver and Molokai. But in Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Salford and much of the Black Country it was back-to-backs. Cheer yourself up this February with a visit to the Estee Lauder counter in Rackhams Birmingham. It warned last week that lower production levels could lead to lay-offs in Liverpool, Birmingham and Coventry. Now The Barefoot Doctor is coming to Birmingham to talk about Taoism, martial arts and the search for happiness. More than 260 Birmingham lawyers battled it out at the second annual Legal Eagles Quiz. A charity which supports needy and marginalised people in Birmingham wants people to attend a fund-raising barn dance. Locally the FSB have been engaged with the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP since formation. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court took just over two hours to return a guilty verdict on Bata from Humberstone, Leicester. Birmingham has 32,690 research students, also the highest number of any major city outside London. In Birmingham libraries, leisure centres, parks, play areas, transport, street cleaning and waste collection face cuts among other services. Show More Sentences Albert Bore, leader of Birmingham City Council called on the government to change radically how local services are funded and provided. It is claimed government cuts to local authorities have hit Birmingham disproportionately. The former Birmingham Central Library, opened in 1972, was considered to be the largest municipal library in Europe. There are 41 local libraries in Birmingham, plus a regular mobile library service. Law enforcement in Birmingham is carried out by West Midlands Police, whose headquarters are at Lloyd House in Birmingham City Centre. Fire and rescue services in Birmingham are provided by West Midlands Fire Service and emergency medical care by West Midlands Ambulance Service. Birmingham was the first city to be named National City of Sport by the Sports Council. The city is also home to one of the oldest American football teams in the BAFA National Leagues, the Birmingham Bulls. Famous food brands that originated in Birmingham include Typhoo tea, Bird's Custard, Cadbury's chocolate and HP Sauce. Central's output from Birmingham now consists of only the West and East editions of the regional news programme Central Tonight. Chartism was launched in 1838 by a series of enormous meetings in Birmingham, Glasgow and the north of England. The attacks against Birmingham took war industries some three months to recover fully. Bombsite rubble from Birmingham was used to make runways on US Air Force bases in Kent and Essex in southeast England. Labour performed well in the Midlands and South of England, winning control of councils including Birmingham, Norwich, Plymouth and Southampton. Phase 2 of this project would see a new line connecting Birmingham to Leeds, with a proposed station in Toton known as the East Midlands Hub. Much of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom began in Birmingham and the Black Country area of West Midlands. The world's first coaxial cable was laid between London and Birmingham in 1936 to give 40 channels for telephone traffic. Metro Cammell in Birmingham made most of the 1970s and 1980s LU underground trains. It is based on Edward Street in Birmingham, near the National Indoor Arena. The University of Birmingham is the main university in the region and has the most funding. Show More Sentences Birmingham and Warwick are members of the Russell Group of public research universities. In the South of Lancashire, North East of Cheshire and the Birmingham area, there would be 3 metropolitan areas, with 20 district authorities. For example, Birmingham has just one parish, New Frankley, whilst Oxford has four, and Northampton has seven. Belfast's example was soon followed by Birmingham in England and Dundee in Scotland. There are regular bus services to Studley, Bromsgrove, Catshill and Birmingham. Frequent events are organised with assistance from the community of Tanzanian students at Birmingham University and Selly Oak College. Priestley published several more scientific papers in Birmingham, the majority attempting to refute Lavoisier. Priestley tried to obtain restitution from the government for the destruction of his Birmingham property, but he was never fully reimbursed. The resultant thin iron sheets were transported to factories in and around Birmingham. As the local grammar school was in disrepair Boulton was sent to an academy in Deritend, on the other side of Birmingham. One impediment to Boulton's work was the lack of an assay office in Birmingham. In 1774 he was able to convince Watt to move to Birmingham, and they entered into a partnership the following year. A great fan of the music of Handel, Boulton conceived of the idea to hold a music festival in Birmingham to raise funds for the hospital. He maintained a pew at St Paul's Church, Birmingham, a centre of musical excellence. Boulton is recognised by several memorials and other commemorations in and around Birmingham. Roebuck went bankrupt, and Matthew Boulton, who owned the Soho Manufactory works near Birmingham, acquired his patent rights. Watt did most of his work at his home in Harper's Hill in Birmingham, while Boulton worked at the Soho Manufactory. Junction 6 in Birmingham is widely known as Spaghetti Junction because of its complexity. Edith and Ronald took to frequenting Birmingham teashops, especially one which had a balcony overlooking the pavement. There are direct rail links to the nearest major airport Birmingham Airport. Show More Sentences On its completion, the M1 acted as a fast link road between London and Birmingham. It runs from Junction 8 of the M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. The line opened on 30 May 1999, mostly using the former disused Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level Line. An extension into Birmingham City Centre was approved in 2012, and is now operational. Birmingham once had an extensive tram network run by Birmingham Corporation Tramways. Work on the Birmingham Metro tram extension began in June 2012, launched by transport minister Norman Baker. Originally, the line terminated at Birmingham Snow Hill station, using the space of one of the former rail platforms. On the trackbed section Birmingham to Priestfield, signals are at Black Lake level crossing, and Wednesbury Parkway and Metro Centre. An extension of Line One into Birmingham city centre has been approved, with an extension through Wolverhampton city centre also approved. The plan was approved by Birmingham City Council in October, allowing the line to add an additional stop at Birmingham Town Hall. Previously, Birmingham City Council looked at the possibility of constructing an underground railway. Centro has stated that the WBHE would provide 10 trams per hour, alternately serving Wolverhampton and Birmingham. These include Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield. It is connected by the elevated AirRail Link with Birmingham International railway station on the West Coast Main Line. CrossCountry operates services from the airport to Birmingham New Street, via Cambridge, Peterborough and Leicester, which run every 60 minutes. In 1928, the Birmingham City Council decided that the city required a municipal airport. Additionally service 97A to Birmingham via Chelmsley Wood now runs to the airport 24hrs a day. Birmingham Airport is accessible from the north and south via Junction Six of the M42 motorway. Irish people have always moved to Birmingham for work especially for the construction, factory and industrial work which the city had to offer. Many Irish people moved to Birmingham to build canals, roads and railways in the city's industrial past. Show More Sentences It is estimated a significant percentage of people from Birmingham have Irish ancestry. There are Chinatowns in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Aberdeen. One notable feature which television producers have been apt to overlook is the distinction between Coventry and Birmingham accents. We have just changed horses at Birmingham where I was two years ago and we visited the manufactories which are very curious. Balti houses were originally clustered along and behind the main road between Sparkhill and Moseley, to the south of Birmingham city centre. Balti restaurants have now spread beyond the triangle, and can also be found in the south of Birmingham, along the Pershore Rd in Stirchley. Excavation work was funded by English Heritage who contracted Birmingham Archaeology to do the fieldwork. At the time, Warren was starting his Birmingham Journal, and he enlisted Johnson's help. This left the family without an income, so Tolkien's mother took him to live with her parents in Kings Heath, Birmingham. Between 1905 and 1908, he held the post of Peyton Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham. The day after the American performance, Holst conducted the City of Birmingham Orchestra in the British premiere. These would become the predecessors of today's Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School. In 1987, however, the company was invited to become the resident ballet company at the Birmingham Hippodrome. In 1926, on Thorndike's recommendation, Olivier joined the Birmingham Repertory Company. Once already I'd been fired for doing it, and I was very nearly sacked from the Birmingham Rep. An accompanying book included an essay by Jiang Jiehong, director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Flybe operate flights to Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester and Dublin. Notable independent schools in the city include the Birmingham Blue Coat School, King Edward VI High School for Girls and Edgbaston High School for Girls. Kain, TAPPI member since 1977, passed away in Birmingham, Alabama. The company was formed on 16 July 1846 by the amalgamation of the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. Find more words! 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