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By Tony A. J. Hewitt

England’s moment largest urban stands on the very middle of the rustic, geographically and traditionally. Birmingham grew from a modest industry city in medieval occasions to being hailed as ‘the first production city on the earth’ in 1791. the town was once on the very middle of the economic Revolution, chargeable for many medical and technological advances that may lay the principles of the fashionable business society. certainly, an important invention in British heritage, the economic steam engine, occurred in Birmingham.

Secret Birmingham bargains a different perception into this Midlands city, highlighting the lesser-known facets of its historical past and revealing interesting evidence that even so much Brummies don’t know.

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