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A pictorial history of Birmingham Town Hall, showing the many
events, occasions and people to which it has played host.
Birmingham's magnificent Town Hall has hosted events of every kind
and variety during its long life. Now, after a 35m refurbishment
and restored to the original 1834 design, it reopens in October
2007 - an occasion which this pictorial history commemorates.
Lavishly illustrated with some 250 pictures, it recalls many of the
astonishing events and occasions that the Hall has witnessed in its
173-year history. These range from royal visits by Queen
Victoriaand subsequent monarchs, outsize banquets, usage in
wartime, legendary speakers including Charles Dickens and the many
famous personalities of each decade, even a riot. The Hall's
amazingly rich musical history is also traced, from the days when
Mendelssohn, Dvorak and Elgar conducted their new works in person,
through appearances by every international musician of subsequent
decades right through the phenomena of all night jazz and the
coming of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, to its temporary
closure in 1996.
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Toxicity (Paperback)
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