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...There are other venues too: the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, which hosts an installation by Birmingham-born multidisciplinary artist Osman Yousefzada; and AirSpace gallery, where William Cobbing brings...
...Alongside Richard Arkwright’s Cromford cotton mills in Derbyshire and Matthew Boulton’s Birmingham Soho Manufactory for metal goods, Wedgwood’s Etruria became a symbol of the coming industrial age of mass...
...But to a younger generation some of these objects are increasingly as alien as objects in the V&A or the British Museum.”...
...Europe’s biggest cities — London, Birmingham and the rest — already plan to ban diesel from their streets....
...Premium products such as V-Power fuel and Helix engine oils have been growing strongly and he wants to strengthen Shell’s 43,000-strong retail network....
...In a country where most major galleries sit behind colonial gables or neoclassical pillars, the industrial dockscape of the V&A Waterfront’s Silo district is envisaged by its promoters as a more open, accessible...
...Then the industrial revolution turned everything on its head....
...Her house, with its subtle segueing of the remarkable with the ordinary, is a good example, as is the new V&A entrance....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...You don’t expect to find an industrial building in Notting Hill – certainly not a breeze block former warehouse at the end of a scruffy car park....
...The streets of Florence gave us the Renaissance, and the streets of Birmingham gave us the Industrial Revolution....
...The capital endured 71 major bombardments during the war, while Birmingham, Liverpool and Plymouth suffered eight attacks each....
...Key Technologies is one of just three businesses listed on InvestBX, a local stock exchange for smaller Midlands companies based in Birmingham....
.... £20,000. www.lyonandturnbull.com ii Urns English Made around 1875 in Birmingham by Elkington & Co, this splendid pair of urns is in the Greek-Revival style, which drew for inspiration on ancient Greek...
...The carbon-bodied “supercar” he has designed has a 540bhp Ford V-8 engine and an estimated top speed of more than 200mph....
...“Here’s me and Clark Gable, me and Cary Grant. Of course my grandchildren ask, ‘Who are they?’...
...Or consider another question: is it likely that the industrial levels of vote-rigging that have been exposed in Labour Birmingham would have taken place in, say, Tory Sussex?...
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