Great Barr Hall
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Great Barr Hall is an 18th-century mansion situated in the Great Barr district of Pheasey, historically in Staffordshire and now part of Walsall, West Midlands, England. It has associations with the L
1907 postcard
Avenue Lodge in December 2016
Handsworth Lodge seen in November 2016
Walsall Lodge on a Frank Nightingale postcard. The herring-bone pattern brickwork has since been overpainted
Lunar Society of Birmingham
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The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a British dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectu
Great Barr Hall
…in the Great Barr district of Pheasey, historically in Staffordshire and now part of Walsall, West Midlands, England. It has associations with the Lunar Society and is a Grade II listed building. It is, however, in a very poor state of repair and is on the Buildings at Risk Register. In the mid-17th century…
Soho House in Handsworth, Birmingham, a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society
Matthew Boulton
Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Ducreux, 1777
Erasmus Darwin by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1770 (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)