Jethro Cossins
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Jethro Anstice Cossins was a British architect, who practised mainly in Birmingham during the 19th century.
Jethro Anstice Cossins, 1911–16
Former Birmingham and Midland Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Edmund Street and Barwick Street, Birmingham
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
Jethro Cossins
…He was born on 7 July 1830 in Kingsdon, Somerset, the son of John Cossins. He died on 5 December 1917 at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham and left an estate valued at £11,613 12s. 1d (equivalent to £822,000 in 2023). A funeral service was held on 8 December 1917 at the Birmingham…
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