The Birmingham and Midland Institute, is an institution concerned with the promotion of education and learning in Birmingham, England. It is now based on Margaret Street in Birmingham city centre. It
Birmingham and Midland Institute, current site
Recruitment leaflet, 1866. Written and designed by J. H. Chamberlain, Honorary Secretary, who appears in the first woodcut recruiting Hercules to the institute. The text tells two apocryphal stories: one of a poor man who, inspired by a BMI lecture, made his fortune: the other of a man who scoffed at the BMI and grew ass-like ears.
Blue plaque to Albert Ketèlbey commemorating his time as a student of the Birmingham School of Music
The Paradise Street building, demolished c. 1965
John Henry Chamberlain
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John Henry Chamberlain, generally known professionally as J. H. Chamberlain, was a British nineteenth-century architect based in Birmingham.
Shenstone House of 1855: Chamberlain's first building in Birmingham, and the first High Victorian building in the town
The rebuilt Central Library of 1882, demolished in 1974
Chamberlain enrolling Hercules as a member of the Birmingham and Midland Institute: detail from an 1866 leaflet