Keith Bracey's take on #Birmingham and The Black C

#Birmingham and #The Black Country

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THE BELLS OF BRIERLEY HILL

The Art of Bell Ringing: The Bells of Brierley Hill

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”To Bearwood and Back Again”

”To Bearwood and Back Again”

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Daily writing promptDo you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?View all responses The pen is mightier than the sword, having volunteered at Birmingham’s Pen Museum in the Jewellery Quarter for 3 years

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animals in armour

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My Cats in Armor

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Nice pussies 😜 🤪 👌 😘 😏 😋

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Benjamin Zephaniah poem for the Trees 🌳 Please Poetree Please Project in tribute to Benjamin's legacy as a poet, actor, activist, campaigner and musician 🙏 ❤️

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Trees Please Poetree Please to celebrate the legacy of Benjamin Zephaniah at Birmingham's Burbury Park in Newtown

Yesterday Saturday 19th April 2025, a week after Benjamin Zephaniah Day at Brunel University in London, Birmingham Tree 🌳 People celebrated the legacy of Benjamin with 65 #Birmingham poets having written 65 poems for each year of Benjamin’s life linked to the Internet by Tree 🌳 Plotter software and also having laminated printed poems attached to the trees 🌳 with stainless steel cable ties. Each…

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BIRMINGHAM – 50 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT MY HOME CITY

50 ‘FASCINATING FACTS’ ABOUT BIRMINGHAM 1. CITY OF 1,000 TRADES Birmingham has always been a hive of activity and was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, which was set in motion by the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of the greatest scientists, inventors and manufacturers of the time who met to exchange ideas […]BIRMINGHAM – 50 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT MY HOME CITY

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BIRMINGHAM’S MINI – THE CAR OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Mini, an icon of the swinging Sixties, was manufactured at Birmingham’s Longbridge plant from 1959 to 2000. In 1999 the Mini was voted the most influential car of the 20th century, and in 2014 it was named Britain’s favourite car of all time in a survey by motoring magazine Autocar. By the late 1960s, […]BIRMINGHAM’S MINI – THE CAR OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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FW Lanchester - Engineering Genius

via The engineering genius of Frederick Lanchester in homage to Coventry winning UK City of Culture 2021

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BIRMINGHAM is a cheap AND quirky tourism destination for UK visitors

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Too many crumbs

The Lunar Society men were very sexist and excluded women from their proceedings as the Lunarticks felt women were frivolous and only fit to cook, clean and bear their children, the geniuses of the future…..this is the story of one woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer

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Too many crumbs

The so called: “Age of Enlightenment” wasn’t so enlightened when it came to women and girls as shown by the fact that @LunarSoc excluded women from their activities and proceedings…..this newly commissioned play performed at @Sohohousemuseum in Handsworth in Birmingham tells the tale of one curious woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer……Keith Bracey, Birmingham Poet, Historian, Writer and…

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Here is the News! The 2021 Chris Upton Memorial Lecture

@LadywoodNorm #NormanBartlam the #Birmingham historian and broadcaster with @TNT news @keithbracey

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Gangsters, Geezers & Mods an important new novel about growing up poor in Birmingham in the 60's & 70's by Stephen Pennell - book review by Keith Bracey AKA the Brummie Bard Birmingham poet and writer

This book is a great exposition on growing up in #Birmingham in poverty and as an Aston Villa Football Club fan

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What was wrong with Steven Knight's Birmingham pageant for the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony for me

I think Sir Michael Balcon should have been included in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony pageant as the former head of the Ealing Studios, and a BRUMMIE! Ealing studios was THE best British film company which made such iconic films as Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, Passport to Pimlico, The Ladykillers, Whiskey Galore! & wartime propaganda film which was quite…

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“Commonwealth People ” a poem for the Queen’s Baton Relay for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games

Birmingham Games Baton Relay Poem entitled: “Commonwealth People” with apologies to the Great Jarvis Cocker & his 1990 hit: “Common People” “Commonwealth People” Commonwealth people come to Brum To celebrate 🍾 youth with sport and fun Brummies, Villains, Bluenoses too…. Baggies and Saddlers Yam, Yams through Are all united in their common crew Wolves, Moors, […]“Commonwealth People ” a poem for…