6. Birmingham’s Growth
• 1838
• Inclusion of Edgbaston, Duddeston &
• 1550 pop c1,500 Nechells, Deritend & Bordesley
• 1650 pop c5,000 • 1891
• 1750 pop c30,000 • Inclusion of Harborne, Balsall Heath
• 1800 pop c70,000 • 1911 (Greater Birmingham Act)
• 1900 pop 520,000 • Inclusion of Handsworth, Northfield,
Yardley, Aston, Kings Norton
• 1981 pop 1,013,431
• 1928 Inclusion of Perry Barr
• 2001 pop 977,000
• 1974 Inclusion of Sutton Coldfield
7. A Town Transformed
• Full twenty years and more are passed
Since I left Brummagem.
But I set out for home at last
To good old Brummagem.
But ev'ry place is altered so
Now there's hardly a place I know
Which fills my heart with grief and woe
For I can't find Brummagem
• James Dobbs, 1825
• One has no great hope of
Birmingham. I always say there
is something direful in the sound.
• Mrs Elton in Jane Austen's
Emma
12. The shamrock in the turban
• As I was walking down the street
• Shifting identities: As used to be in Brummagem,
I knowed nobody I did meet
For they've changed their face in
Brummagem…
• The mosque
• The neighbourhood
• The village
• The suburb
• The pub
• The past…
13. • A sense of place
• A feeling of ownership
• A haven
• Continuity
• A shared past
• A shared future ?