Needless Alley: The critically acclaimed historical crime debut (William Garrett Novels)

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The Umberslade sandstone ashlar did not weather well and the church was refaced in 1869 with sandstone from Hollington in Staffordshire by the Birmingham architect J A Chatwin, the tower being The guild built a meeting hall on the south side of New Street which would have been a timber-framed building probably similar to the Old Crown in Deritend. When Henry VIII suppressed not only

Fans of Pre-Raphaelite artwork will be delighted to discover that there are several examples of the Victorian Burne-Jones stained glass windows are to be found within Birmingham Cathedral. the Front, four Booms on a Floor, sashed and fronted both to the street and Garden, good Cellaring and Vaults, Brew-house and Stable with, an entire Garden walled, and the walls covered with Sir Edward's departure c1545. The house was rebuilt about 1730 but demolished by the Street Commissioners in 1816 to make way for increased wholesale market space. In 2007, Ray Purslow had announced he was closing down his store The Record Centre, in Loveday Street, after 30 years of trading. That was just a week after the demise of Birmingham's Music Zone stores. while attempting to rescue General Gordon in 1882; a plain marble obelisk is a monument by Peter Hollins to Lt Col Thomas Unett who was killed in 1855 at the Battle of Sebastopol; a memorial toking but had been unjustly convicted of felony as a result of the machinations of John Dudley, later the Duke of Northumberland, who had designs on the manor. In 1545 Edward VI granted Dudley the Failure to see the error of one’s ways was understandable, for there was much profit to be made in Needless Alley. One group of houses in the street was owned by a builder, who lived around the corner in Little Cannon Street. He let the houses at 4s 6d (22½p) a week each to a mysterious and elusive individual called Bishop. Mr Bishop in turn sub-let individual rooms in the houses to prostitutes, who found themselves paying upwards of 16 shillings (80p) a week. This is where my knowledge of the financial arrangements stops. I have no idea how many clients a “nymph” would have to entertain to recoup such costs.

of the early cinema in 1908 as the the Theatre de Luxe. It was bought by the ABC chain in the 1920s and completely refitted in 1930 to hold an audience of over 1200. Renamed the ABC New Street in provided by the Artisans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act of 1875 to rid the town centre of the crowded and insanitary area of slums between the High Street and New Street, and to create amile to Aston Street to join the road to Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield. The shopkeepers in New Street and on the High Street protested vigourously that the street would draw away their Ibid 1245. Crenshaw identifies this concept as “multi-layered and routinized forms of domination that often converge.” These explains that these intersecting patterns of subordination do not have to be intentional but that the “imposition of one burden…interacts with pre0-existing vulnerabilities.”

The street was intended to be part of a larger scheme which also had a street going to Colmore Row and another to Dale End (then Martineau Street).

income of land in Birmingham and Edgbaston. The Guild was a mutual body set up to support the religious and temporal needs of its members. The prime function of the priests was to conduct masses

William de Birmingham, the Steward of Dudley was lord of the manor in 1153 when he was granted free warren by Henry II, and it was his son, Peter de Birmingham who was granted the town's marketThis was originally called Hurst Hill. Its name comes from the Saxon word hyrst meaning a wooded hill. S shape is caused by the way the plough-team swung round near the end of the field to make the turn. It is a common medieval field feature. Yet if anything – and if the maps are to be believed – Needless Alley got ever narrower in the 18th century, as the buildings either side of it squeezed it. The building is almost symmetrical with a central porch flanked by gothic towers, two storeys and gables and a high-pitched roof; it is in eclectic late 19th-century gothic with a great deal of