On Birmingham’s new civic glory

By Stephen Cousins Stephen Cousins Stephen Cousins 2009-03-03T00:00:00

Birmingham Town Hall, Mr Joseph Hansom, architect

The editors, craving your indulgence, have pleasure in presenting this report from the year 1834 on the troubled construction of Birmingham’s Town Hall. It is by the pen of the respectable Mr Stephen Cousins, ancestor of the current deputy editor.

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