Can Birmingham beat the constant breakdown? – The Times

IIn the summer of 1998, writer and documentary maker Jonathan Maedes broadcast a series of films on a somewhat unprecedented subject – Birmingham. Meades framed the city as a puzzling public mystery: a city without a transcript or trademark.

Newcastle had a Taine Bridge, Liverpool had a liver building, and London had several thousand years in London. When Britain thought of regionally, she placed Chippy Northern Agrection against a sedentary southern arrogance, with Midlands being mysterious.

What exactly was Birmingham? The city was dragged from heavy industries and production jobs, but now deprived of both. Guard with channels, but without a large river or mouth. Far from the court, Birmingham kept thinly the hair a literary tradition and barely marked British story before