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Kings Heath - metropolitan village

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Coming out of Birmingham on the 35 or the 50 bus, you go out through Moseley, then through Moseley Village, (which is rather Bohemian and lively, and worth a visit in its own right), before coming into Kings Heath. Kings Heath was once a village, which slowly got swallowed up by the expanding conurbation of [...]

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Birmingham - jewel of the Midlands

June 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Probably well off the tourist trail is the industrial city of Birmingham in the Midlands, which is affectionately known simply as “Brum”, and is a thriving multicultural metropolis.
Birmingham started out as a small Anglo-Saxon farming village dating back to the 7th century, and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. By the [...]

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