The Streets of Brum
- Location
- Library of Birmingham (Heritage Learning Space)
- Dates
- Wednesday 29 April 2015 (13:00-14:00)
- Contact
For more information, please contact the University of Birmingham's Cultural Engagement team at culture@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Image courtesy Professor Carl Chinn
Birmingham's streets, roads and lanes are an absorbing aspect of our history. They call out to us about long dead landowners, notable figures from the history of England, Brummies long forgotten, farms that have been swept away by the outpouring of our city, remarkable physical features, distant battles, intriguing foreign places and mysterious happenings. Such names almost demand of us that we ask questions of them. Why is Conybere Street so called? Where is the Fashoda that is highlighted in a Stirchley road? How did AB Row gain its name? For what reason are the Adderleys brought to mind in Saltley? Did people wash themselves in Bath Row? Were cherries once picked in Cherry Street? And where were Fisherman's Hut Lane, Noah's Ark Passage, Devil's Tooth Hollow Yard and The Froggery.
Professor Carl Chinn, Community Historian in the School of History at the University of Birmingham, presents this guest lecture exploring the origins of Birmingham’s street names, bringing to life their meaning and those people who belonged to them.
This event is presented by University of Birmingham as part of Library of Birmingham's Origins Season. On the last Wednesday of the month between January and April 2015, University of Birmingham academics will deliver a series of lunchtime lectures exploring origins from wide-ranging research perspectives.
Venue: Library of Birmingham, Heritage Learning Space, Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND