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Article: Double Chinn: Going great guns; THE GUN QUARTER.
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2000
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IN the late seventeenth century, Birmingham began to thrust itself forward to the national stage as a major manufacturing centre.
New trades such as gun making had become important and the population was expanding rapidly. Yet Brummies were packed into a small area of the old manor.
Apart from a few offshoots of the Bull Ring, Birmingham remained a one street town, along which were crowded the workshops of the makers of things.
This built-up area was surrounded by the estates of the wealthy of Birmingham, such as those of the Philips family and the ...