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The BIRMINGHAM

& WEST MIDLANDS

COLLECTION

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 116 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on DVD data disc covering the history and people of BIRMINGHAM & THE WEST MIDLANDS.

As a settlement Birmingham dates from the Anglo-Saxon era. However, medieval charters established it as a market town and these days it is recognised as the second largest city and metropolitan area in England and the UK.

Explore about the antiquities of this fascinating city and its surrounding area. Discover its history, its landscape and its people. Search the old local parish registers for genealogical information, revealing ancestry and family lineage. Learn about the old buildings, the industry, the scenery and the legends that have helped shaped this region over hundreds of years. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in the history, ancestry and genealogy of Birmingham and the West Midlands. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of 116 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A calendar of the books, charters, letters patent, deeds, rolls, writs and other writings - in the cases and drawers of the new Muniment-Room of St. Mary's Hall, Coventry (1896)

A century of Birmingham life or, A chronicle of local events, from 1741 to 1841 Vol. 1 - J. Langford (1870)

A century of Birmingham life or, A chronicle of local events, from 1741 to 1841 Vol. 2 - J. Langford (1870)

A history of the Birmingham General Hospital and the musical festivals - J. Bunce (1873)

A memoir of Mary Capper, late of Birmingham, England, a minister of the Society of Friends - M. Capper (1888)

A Short History of the Town and Chase of Sutton Coldfield - W. Midgley (1904)

Addresses to the working people of Birmingham - A. Mursell (1880)

An appeal to the public, on the subject of the riots in Birmingham - J. Priestley (1792)

An authentic narrative of the melancholy occurrences at Bilston, in the county of Stafford, during the awful visitation in that town by cholera, in the months of August and September, 1832 - W. Leigh (1833)

An historical and descriptive sketch of Birmingham, with some account of its environs, and forty-four views of the principal public buildings (1830)

Ballads of old Birmingham - E. Rudland (1915)

Birmingham - J. Masterman (1920)

Birmingham & Midland Institute address delivered at the annual meeting of members, 10th January, 1876 (1876)

Birmingham 120 Years Ago - C. Scarse (1896)

Birmingham illustrated. Cornish's stranger's guide through Birmingham - J. Cornush (1851)

Birmingham institutions - J. Muirhead (1911)

Bisset's magnificent guide, or grand copperplate directory, for the town of Birmingham - J. Bisset (1808)

Boy life & labour - A. Freeman (1914)

Business Directory of Birmingham (1862)

City of Birmingham - Public parks and pleasure grounds (1892)

Cornish's Stranger's Guide Through Birmingham (1867)

Directory of Birmingham (1835)

Drake's road book of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways, to which is appended the visiter's guide to Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester - J. Drake (1839)

Dudley tradesmen's tokens of the seventeenth, eighteenth & nineteenth centuries - M. Perkins (1905)

Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer Vol. 1 - W. Sargant (1871)

Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer Vol. 2 - W. Sargant (1871)

Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer Vol. 3 - W. Sargant (1871)

Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer Vol. 4 - W. Sargant (1871)

General & Commercial Directory of Birmingham (1858)

Grove family of Halesowen - J. Davenport (1912)

Handbook of Birmingham (1886)

History & Directory of Birmingham (1849)

History and antiquities of Coventry. A general survey of that Ancient City and its Suburbs, from the earliest period - F. White (1874)

History and general directory of the borough of Birmingham (1849)

History of Birmingham (new edition) - W. Hutton (1839)

History of the Corporation of Birmingham - J. Bunce (1902)

History of the forest and chase of Sutton Coldfield, including the border districts of Great Barr, Perry Barr. Erdington, Curdworth, Wishaw, Middleton, Drayton, Weeford, and Shenstone (1860)

History of the free schools, colleges, hospitals, and asylums of Birmingham - G. Griffith (1861)

Inhabitants of Birmingham, Edgbaston and Aston, Possessing Goods to the Value of Ten Shillings and Upwards in the year 1327 (printed 1885)

Memorials of old Birmingham. Traditions of the Old crown house, in Der-Yat-End, in the lordship of Birmingham - J. Smith (1863)

Memorials of the Old Meeting House and burial ground, Birmingham - C. Beale (1882)

Memorials of the Old Square - being some notices of the Priory of St. Thomas in Birmingham, and the lands appertaining thereto - R. Dent (1897)

Methodism in West Bromwich, from 1742 to 1885 - J. Hall (1886)

Modern Birmingham and its institutions - a chronicle of local events, from 1841 to 1871 Vol. 1 - J. Langford (1873)

Modern Birmingham and its institutions - a chronicle of local events, from 1841 to 1871 Vol. 2 - J. Langford (1873)

Nine famous Birmingham men - J. Muirhead (1909)

Old and New Birmingham - A History of the Town and Its People - R. Dent (1880)

On the future extension of Birmingham industries (1872)

On the Vital Statistics of Birmingham and Seven Other Large Towns - W. Sargant (1866) (article)

Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction, Or Birmingham, Liverpool, etc. - E. Osborne (1838)

Osborne's London and Birmingham Railway guide. Illustrated - E. Osborne (1840)

Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham (1896-97)

Personal recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham men - E. Edwards (1877)

Poems, together with ballads of old Birmingham - E. Rudland (1914)

Post Office Directory of Birmingham (1867)

Post Office Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire & Worcestershire (1850)

Programme and souvenir of the opening, West Bromwich Public Library June 10th, 1907 (1907)

Railroad guide, from London to Birmingham (1839)

Rambles about Dudley castle - W. Harris (1845)

Richard Cadbury of Birmingham - H. Dixon (1906)

Robson's Birmingham & Sheffield Directory (1839)

Rowley Regis parish register with index, 1685-1771 (1912)

Rowley Regis parish register with index, 1772-1812 (1912)

Showell's dictionary of Birmingham. A history and guide, containing thousands of dates and references to matters of interest connected with the past and present history of the town - T. Harman (1885)

Slater's Directory of Birmingham, Worcester & the Potteries (1851)

Slater's General & Classified Directory of Birmingham (1852-53)

Spennell's Annual Directory of Coventry & District (1912-13)

The Birmingham riots of 1791 - a closely copied reprint of a pamphlet published immediately after their occurrence - J. Priestley (1867)

The Birmingham School of Medicine (1890)

The brassworkers of Berlin and of Birmingham - R. Best (1905)

The churches of Coventry - F. Woodhouse (1909)

The Coventry leet book; or mayor's register (1907)

The development of Birmingham, an essay - W. Haywood (1918)

The future water supply of Birmingham - T. Barclay (1898)

The Grand junction railway companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham - A. Freeling (1837)

The history and antiquities of the see and cathedral church of Lichfield - J. Britton (1836)

The history and directory of Walsall - T. Pearce (1813)

The history of Birmingham (fourth edition) - W. Hutton (1819)

The history of Birmingham (sixth edition) - W. Hutton (1835)

The house of Rimmon, a story of the Black Country of South Staffordshire - M. Kernahan (1889)

The iron road book and railway companion from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool - F. Coghlan (1838)

The life of R.W. Dale of Birmingham - A. Dale (1899)

The life of William Hutton, and the history of the Hutton family - W. Hutton (1872)

The life of William Hutton, including a particular account of the riots at Birmingham in 1791, to which is subjoined, the history of his family - W. Hutton (1816)

The Lloyds of Birmingham, with some account of the founding of Lloyds bank - S. Lloyd (1907)

The medical charities of Birmingham (1863)

The Midland naturalist Vols. 6-16 (1883-93)

The model village and its cottages Bournville, illustrated by fifty-seven plates of plans, views & details - W. Harvey (1906)

The old non-parochial registers of Dudley - A. Rollasson (1899)

The Parish Church of Aston-juxta-Birmingham - W. Eliot (1889)

The Picture of Birmingham (1825)

The Post Office Directory of Birmingham - E. R. Kelly (1879)

The recorder of Birmingham - R. Hill (1878)

The registers of Halesowen, Co. Worcester - baptisms, marriages and burials, 1559-1648 (1910)

The Russells of Birmingham in the French Revolution and in America, 1791-1814 - S. Jeyes (1911)

The story of Coventry - M. Harris (1911)

Three hundred years of a family living, being a history of the Rilands of Sutton Coldfield - W. Riland (1899)

Town planning, with special reference to the Birmingham schemes - G. Cadbury (1915)

Transcript of the first register book of the parish church of Saint Matthew, Walsall (1890)

Walks in the Black Country and its green border-land - E. Burritt (1868)

West Bromwich parish register, 1608-1658 (1909)

White & Co.'s Commercial & Trades Directory of Birmingham, Vol. 1 (1875)

White & Co.'s Commercial & Trades Directory of Birmingham, Vol. 2 (1875)

Wolverhampton Red Book & Directory (1892)

Women's work and wages, a phase of life in an industrial city - E. Cadbury (1907)

Wright's Midland Directory (1864)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in history of Birmingham and the West Midlands – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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All of the files are hi-resolution scans presented in pdf format, easy to read on your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, or any modern Kindle / ebook reader that can read pdf files. All files can be printed or transferred between devices.

For some devices you may need to convert the pdf files. A free program called Calibre can be used to do this and can be included on the DVD if requested.

Please note that this is a data DVD disc that will contain all of the books, documents and material listed in this auction. It will work in a laptop or computer (including MAC) but will NOT work on a normal DVD player, X-Box or audio CD player.

** Main photo is for illustration purposes only – other photos are example pages from the books included on the disc **

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