✖BIRMINGHAM✖

► Number three - Birmingham ◄



At last, before we're going back in London to take the train to France, we were in Birmingham. Like Bristol, we don't know a lot about this city. Just some monumentsn that we've already see on the net. But in real, that's not the same at all.


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Aston Hall

Aston Hall is a Jacobean-style mansion, became municipal monument, located in Aston, Birmingham, UK. Washington Irving used it as a model for Bracebridge Hall in his stories in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.

 

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Sarehole Mill

Sarehole Mill is a former water mill in Birmingham, in the ancient hamlet of Sarehole. It's now a listed Grade II monument that houses a museum.
The mill has existed since 1542. It is rented to Matthew Boulton in 1755, one of the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and rebuilt in 1768.
The fantasy writer JRR Tolkien lived in Sarehole in childhood (1896-1900). It keeps fond memories of the mill and regrets the industrialization of the surrounding area. In 1968, he participated in financing the restoration of the mill.

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Birmingham Central Library 

Birmingham Central Library was a public library in Birmingham. Open from 1974 to 2013, she was a time the largest private library Europe. It was closed June 29, 2013 to be replaced by the Library of Birmingham. The building of the Birmingham Central Library will be destroyed in 2014 to make way for a portion of Paradise Circus Group Silver Group. 
 

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, also know by the acronym BMAG, is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham.
BMAG has a collection of international importance covering the fine art, the ceramic, the metal, the jewels, the archaeology, the ethnography, the local history and the industrial history.