Some MORE Brill things about BRUM.... I have called them BRUMMAGEMS Nigel Mansell, World Motor Racing Champion Murray Walker the octogenarian Motor Racing commentator & Nigels mate Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham where 40% of UK jewellery is still made The University of Birmingham where Rutherford split the atom Joseph Chamberlain, the modern Municipal father of Birmingham UB40 the Birmingham band exemplified disenfranchised youth in the Thatcher Crisis Years of the 1980s Dexys and Dexys Midnight Runners Brian Moore who was born in Birmingham and adopted and brought up as a Yorkshireman, a dangerous combination Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Bob Carolgees, John Gorman, Trevor East et al Lenny Henry hes from Dudley in The Black Country but he WAS TISWAS Birminghams Balti.....often imitated by Bradford but never bettered Sir Michael Balcon, founder of The Ealing Studios and maker of marvellous films like Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers and Passport to Pimlico and the creator of PC George Dixon: Evenin All named by Balcon after my old school: George Dixon Grammar in Edgbaston Cardinal John Henry Newman & his marvellous Baroque ChurchThe Oratory Pope Benedict came to Birmingham in 2010 to beatify Newman Alumni The Beat including founder members Rankin Roger and Dave Wakelin Kash The Flash Gill, the first Asian World Champion in a Contact Sport The very first Transatlantic telecommunications cable laid in 1865 by Webster & Horsfall of Small John Bright MP who was instrumental in both the Abolition of Slavery and the 1870 Reform Act which gave the working man the vote William Attwood MP laid the groundwork for the First Reform Act of 1832 Sir Edward Elgar, the first Professor of Music at Birmingham University and the composer of Land of Hope and Glory and The Enigma Variations Denis Howell MP, the Minister for Drought in 1976 & the first proper Sports Minister as a former FA Cup Final referee Sir Austen Chamberlain MP Birminghams Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for his work on the 1930s Abyssinian Crisis Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani Edgbaston School Girl who defied The Taliban and is the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize nominee Brilliant Brummagems all of em......We Are Brummies Keith Bracey.....Professional Brummies
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:56:46 +0000
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