1808

Abraham Follett Osler born. He became a world famous glass manufacturer with a factory on Broad Street. The “Big Brum” clock above the Art Gallery was his gift to the city. Osler Street in Ladywood and Osler Street School were named in his honour.

1825

Engineer Thomas Telford commences plans for Edgbaston Reservoir

1832

Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield, both of the Birmingham Political Union, are elected unopposed as Birmingham's first MP's.

1839

July 4 1839: Chartist protestors pull railings out from St Thomas’s Church, Bath Row, to use as spears!

1854

St John's Church in Ladywood is consecrated.

1856

Opening of Singers Hill Synagogue

1860

Birmingham Mint founded at Icknield Street.

1869

St Asaph’s Church opened at the junction of Great Colmore and Latimer Street

1870

John Henry Chamberlain designs the Venetian style gothic tower of the local pumping station in Ladywood.

1873

Chapman’s windmill on Holloway Head demolished

1875

September 28 1875: St Catherine Of Siena RC Church opens on The Horsefair.

1899

The original St Luke’s Church on Bristol Street is demolished by order of Birmingham Corporation on safety grounds