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music, cities, buildings, the countryside

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@sifferkontot @ThatchEffendi Mind you, for the migration period in England, there's remarkably little archaelogical evidence of violent conflict - unlike the Danish invasion a few centuries later.

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@sifferkontot @ThatchEffendi Did I say the migration period was peaceful? (Thanks for the chef's kiss comment). Can you reread what I said perhaps? (I am suggesting it was more extreme because of those events, not qualitatively different)

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@sifferkontot @ThatchEffendi

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@andymhamilton Yes, up to the 1920s that’s true. But the huge wave of 1930s suburbanisation changed that.

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As opposed to the 1930s semi detached, famously looks very different in Carlisle and Southampton. Totally rooted in its location.

[Lord WarGit of Superlative Value @WarGit]

I'm not agin all modern design. But the second point here is well made. I was looking at some renders for a new development for Oxford earlier and the thing that struck me most wasn't that it was obviously awful but that it could have been *anywhere*. Cut and paste.

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@richardpfranks @jezc @thomasforth This discussion isn’t new. From a history book written in the 70s.

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@richardpfranks @jezc @thomasforth I think it also goes back to Manchester being so important (capital of Britains biggest export industry) when British self confidence was at its height. Birmingham’s importance came at a time of national self-doubt and uncertainty.

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@aswren @ThomasBHall Manchester is growing faster but Birmingham is still the third largest cluster of graduate type jobs and the city centre has seen very rapid professional job growth over the past few years.

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@Ultan_de_Burca @AnInnes3 And Gaelic was called “erse” form the 14th century, right? Both of course are languages of Scotland.

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@createstreets The old library wasn’t demolished to rebuild it; it was replaced with the inner ring road. The Madin library was on the site of Mason College.

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@ape_steinUK Birmingham in the early 90s was utterly terrifying - it is far far safer and more pleasant now. (I remember my youthful experiences here - https://t.co/Nm8tTW5LRY

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At the time of the year, there’s plenty of negativity around Birmingham. So here’s a few pictures I’ve taken over the years as a little antidote.

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@createstreets I do think when you post this sort of thing you should also highlight that the city has kept, thankfully, quite a lot of more intimate buildings and streetscape.

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@mike_oxard84258 All the midlands and northern cities have appalling deprivation statistics, but Brummies like to bring it up far more than their peers in other places

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@Alex11583274 @createstreets It’s on Cornwall street or Edmund street, can’t remember which.

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@Alex11583274 @createstreets Which one

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@McilhaggaSamuel @ArguablyMag And as for transport

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@McilhaggaSamuel @ArguablyMag Yet it remains the largest cluster of graduate-type jobs outside London and Manchester.

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@takeapuntonus @quarterno9 Yes, it’s just like Luton. Hard to tell the difference really.

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@createstreets I do think when you post this sort of thing you should also highlight that the city has kept, thankfully, quite a lot of more intimate buildings and streetscape.

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@createstreets Can you also please read about how much work went into trying to heal the errors of the 60s? https://t.co/PQEE2BShb0