Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman;Walter Showell
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that month. The three cost £110. The bells at Erdington Catholic Church
were first used on February 2, 1878. ~Bellows to Mend.~--Our townspeople bellowed a little over their losses after Prince Rupert's rueful visit, but there was one among them who knew how to "raise the wind," for we find Onions, the bellows-maker, hard at work in 1650; and his descendants keep at the same old game. ~Bennett's Hill.~--There was a walled-in garden (with an old brick summer-house) running up from Waterloo-street to Colmore-row as late as 1838-9. ~Benefit and Benevolent Societies.~--See "_Friendly Societies_." ~Bellbarn Road~, or the road to Mr. Bell's barn. ~Bermingham.~--The Irish family of this name descended from Robert, son of Peter de Bermingham, who left here and settled in Connaught about the year 1169. ~Bibles and Testaments.~--In 1272 the price of a Bible, well written out, was £30 sterling, and there were few readers of it in Birmingham. The good book can now be bought for 6d., and it is to be hoped there is one in every house. The Rev. Angell James once appealed to his congregation for subscriptions towards sending a million New Testaments to China, and the Carrslaneites responded promptly with £410 8s., enough to pay for 24,624 copies--the publisher's price being 4d. each. They can be bought for a penny now.--A local Auxiliary Bible Society was commenced here May 9, 1806. |
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