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Castle Bromwich

Index Castle Bromwich

Castle Bromwich is a suburb situated within Solihull in the English county of the West Midlands. [1]

108 relations: Aerodrome, Air Ministry, Air Transport Auxiliary, Alex Henshaw, Ancient Rome, Ancient trackway, Aston Manor, Avro Lancaster, Baptists, Barrells Hall, Battle of Britain, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Benjamin Disraeli, Birmingham, Birmingham Airport, British Industries Fair, British Leyland, British Motor Corporation, British shadow factories, Castle Bromwich Aerodrome, Castle Bromwich Assembly, Castle Bromwich Hall, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens, Castle Bromwich railway station, Castle Bromwich Rural District, Castle Vale, Chelmsley Wood, Chester, Church of England, Civil parish, Coaching inn, Coleshill, Warwickshire, Cooper Perry, Drovers' road, Earl of Bradford, Elmdon, West Midlands, Erdington, General Electric Company, Genisteae, Goodwin Newton, Great Seal of the Realm, Grimstock Hill Romano-British settlement, Hamlet (place), Henry de Ardern, Hodge Hill, Holyhead, Horace Newton, Hundred (county division), Jacobean architecture, Jaguar Cars, ..., John Jones Bateman, Kingshurst, Local Government Act 1894, Local Government Act 1972, M6 motorway, Mary of Teck, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Meriden (UK Parliament constituency), Meriden Rural District, Methodism, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, Midland Railway, Minworth, Moat, National Exhibition Centre, National Express West Midlands, Normans, North Warwickshire, Nuffield Organization, Overspill estate, Park Hall Academy, Ridge and furrow, River Tame, West Midlands, Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer), Roman Empire, Roundabout, Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps, Saxons, Sentinel (sculpture), Shard End, Sir Edward Devereux, 1st Baronet of Castle Bromwich, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever, Solihull, St Mary and St Margaret's Church, Castle Bromwich, Stone Age, Supermarine, Supermarine Spitfire, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Staffordshire, Test pilot, The Scout Association, Tim Tolkien, Tom Clarke (musician), Trevor Francis, Tushar Makwana, University of London, Vickers, Vickers-Armstrongs, Warwickshire, Washwood Heath, Water Orton, Welsh Road, West Midlands (county), Weston Park, Whateley Hall, Winston Churchill, World War II. Expand index (58 more) »

Aerodrome

An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither.

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Air Ministry

The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.

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Air Transport Auxiliary

The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up during the Second World War and headquartered at White Waltham Airfield that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, Maintenance Units (MUs), scrap yards, and active service squadrons and airfields, but not to naval aircraft carriers.

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Alex Henshaw

Alexander Adolphus Dumfries Henshaw, (7 November 1912 – 24 February 2007) was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong during the Second World War.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Ancient trackway

Ancient trackway can refer to any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity.

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Aston Manor

Aston Manor was a local government district in what is now northern Birmingham, from the 19th century to 1911, when it was added to Birmingham.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Barrells Hall

Barrells Hall is a large house in the Warwickshire countryside near Henley-in-Arden.

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Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is a Royal Air Force flight which provides an aerial display group usually comprising an Avro Lancaster, a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Birmingham Airport

Birmingham Airport, formerly Birmingham International Airport and before that, Elmdon Airport, is an international airport located east southeast of Birmingham city centre, slightly north of Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England.

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British Industries Fair

The British Industries Fair was an important exhibition centre in Birmingham, England.

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British Leyland

British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings.

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British Motor Corporation

The British Motor Corporation Limited (BMC) was a UK-based vehicle manufacturer, formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of the Morris and Austin businesses.

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British shadow factories

British shadow factories were the outcome of the Shadow Scheme, a plan devised in 1935 and developed by the British Government in the buildup to World War II to try to meet the urgent need for more aircraft using technology transfer from the motor industry to implement additional manufacturing capacity.

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Castle Bromwich Aerodrome

Castle Bromwich Aerodrome was an early airfield, situated to the north of Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands of England.

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Castle Bromwich Assembly

Castle Bromwich Assembly is a factory owned by Jaguar Land Rover.

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Castle Bromwich Hall

Castle Bromwich Hall is a Jacobean Mansion in the village of Castle Bromwich, which is situated in the northern part of the West Midlands county, England.

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Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens

Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens are situated adjacent to the west side of Castle Bromwich Hall, a Jacobean Mansion.

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Castle Bromwich railway station

Castle Bromwich railway station was a railway station in the Castle Bromwich area of Birmingham opened by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway in 1842.

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Castle Bromwich Rural District

Castle Bromwich was a rural district in Warwickshire, England from 1894 to 1912.

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Castle Vale

Castle Vale is a housing estate located between Erdington, Minworth and Castle Bromwich.

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Chelmsley Wood

Chelmsley Wood is a neighbourhood, civil parish and a large housing estate within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, with a population of 12,453.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Coaching inn

The coaching inn (also coaching house or staging inn) was a vital part of Europe's inland transport infrastructure until the development of the railway, providing a resting point for people and horses.

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Coleshill, Warwickshire

Coleshill is a market town in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England, taking its name from the River Cole.

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Cooper Perry

Sir Edwin Cooper Perry, GCVO (1856-1938) was a physician and medical administrator who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.

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Drovers' road

A drovers' road, drove or droveway is a route for droving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture (see transhumance).

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Earl of Bradford

Earl of Bradford is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Elmdon, West Midlands

Elmdon is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the county of West Midlands, England.

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Erdington

Erdington is a suburb and ward of Birmingham that is historically part of Warwickshire.

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General Electric Company

The General Electric Company, or GEC, was a major UK-based industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.

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Genisteae

Genisteae is a tribe of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae.

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Goodwin Newton

Thomas Henry Goodwin Newton (1835–1907) was the Chairman of Imperial Continental Gas Association (now known as Calor Gas), one of the United Kingdom's largest energy businesses.

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Great Seal of the Realm

The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom (known prior to the Treaty of Union of 1707 as the Great Seal of England; and from then until the Union of 1801 as the Great Seal of Great Britain and Ireland) is a seal that is used to symbolise the Sovereign's approval of important state documents.

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Grimstock Hill Romano-British settlement

Grimstock Hill, located north of the River Cole in Coleshill, Warwickshire, was the site of a Romano-British settlement discovered in 1978.

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Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is a small human settlement.

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Henry de Ardern

Henry de Ardern or Henry Ardern, was a Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in 1377 and again in 1380 and Worcestershire from November 1381.

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Hodge Hill

Hodge Hill is an area 4 miles east of Birmingham City Centre, England.

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Holyhead

Holyhead (Caergybi, "Cybi's fort") is a town in Wales and a major Irish Sea port serving Ireland.

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Horace Newton

Canon Horace Newton (Born 1844, Died 1920) was a priest within the Church of England, philanthropist, and country landowner.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Jacobean architecture

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England and owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.

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John Jones Bateman

John Jones Bateman (1817–1903) was an English architect, active in the town (later city) of Birmingham, where he designed a number of important civic buildings, and nonconformist churches, often in partnership with George Drury.

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Kingshurst

Kingshurst is a post-war housing estate and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands.

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Local Government Act 1894

The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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M6 motorway

The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45).

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Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King George V. Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in England.

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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook

William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964) was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century.

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Meriden (UK Parliament constituency)

Meriden is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Caroline Spelman, a Conservative.

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Meriden Rural District

The Meriden Rural District was a rural district of Warwickshire, England, which existed between 1894 and 1974.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Metropolitan Borough of Solihull

The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in west-central England.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Minworth

Minworth is a village contiguous with Sutton Coldfield on the northeastern outskirts of Birmingham, West Midlands.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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National Exhibition Centre

The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is an exhibition centre located in Birmingham, England.

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National Express West Midlands

National Express West Midlands (NXWM) is a bus operator in the West Midlands that operates services in Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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North Warwickshire

North Warwickshire is a local government district and borough in Warwickshire, England.

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Nuffield Organization

Nuffield Organization was the unincorporated umbrella-name or promotional name used for the charitable and commercial interests of owner and donor, William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield.

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Overspill estate

An overspill estate is a housing estate planned and built for the housing of excess population in urban areas, both from the natural increase of population and often in order to rehouse people from decaying inner city areas, usually as part of the process of slum clearance.

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Park Hall Academy

Park Hall Academy (formerly Park Hall School) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands of England.

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Ridge and furrow

Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin sliones) and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open field system.

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River Tame, West Midlands

The River Tame is the main river of the West Midlands of England, and the most important tributary of the River Trent.

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Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer)

Roger Andrew Taylor (born 26 April 1960) is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the new wave music band Duran Duran from their inception until 1985, and again from 2001 onwards.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island, is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Flying Corps

The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War, until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force.

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Saxons

The Saxons (Saxones, Sachsen, Seaxe, Sahson, Sassen, Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany.

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Sentinel (sculpture)

Sentinel is a 16m high sculpture by Tim Tolkien, installed upon Spitfire Island, a roundabout at the intersection of the Chester Road and the A47 Fort Parkway at the entrance to the Castle Vale estate in Birmingham, England.

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Shard End

Shard End is an area of Birmingham, England.

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Sir Edward Devereux, 1st Baronet of Castle Bromwich

Sir Edward Devereux (c.1544 - c.1622) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons, and was an English Baronet.

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Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, SL (30 January 1606 – 25 June 1674) was an English common law jurist, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642.

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Solihull

Solihull is a large town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 206,700 in the 2011 Census.

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St Mary and St Margaret's Church, Castle Bromwich

St Mary and St Margaret Church, Castle Bromwich is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Supermarine

Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer that produced, among the others, a range of seaplanes, flying boats and the Supermarine Spitfire fighter.

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Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II.

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Sutton Coldfield

The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, more colloquially known as Sutton Coldfield or simply Sutton, is a town and civil parish in Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

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Tamworth, Staffordshire

Tamworth is a large market town in Staffordshire, England, northeast of Birmingham and northwest of London.

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Test pilot

A test pilot is an aviator who flies new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques or FTTs, allowing the results to be measured and the design to be evaluated.

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The Scout Association

The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organisation in the United Kingdom and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement's recognised member for the United Kingdom (UK).

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Tim Tolkien

Tim Tolkien (born September 1962) is an English sculptor who has designed several monumental sculptures, including the award-winning ''Sentinel''.

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Tom Clarke (musician)

Tom Clarke (born 11 March 1986) is an English multi-instrumentalist known as the lead vocalist of the British indie rock band The Enemy.

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Trevor Francis

Trevor John Francis (born 19 April 1954) is a former footballer who played as a forward, with most games for Birmingham City (1971–79).

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Tushar Makwana

Tushar Makwana (2 February 1967 – 12 February 2004) was a British radio personality, killed in a hit-and-run incident during a botched robbery attempt at his home in Birmingham, England.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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Vickers

Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.

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Vickers-Armstrongs

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Washwood Heath

Washwood Heath is a ward in Birmingham, within the formal district of Hodge Hill, roughly two miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, England.

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Water Orton

Water Orton is a village near the River Tame in the North Warwickshire borough of Warwickshire in England.

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Welsh Road

The Welsh Road, also known as the Welshman's Road or the Bullock Road, was a drover's road running through the English Midlands, used for transporting cattle from North Wales to the markets of South East England.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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Weston Park

Weston Park is a country house in Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire, England, set in more than of park landscaped by Capability Brown.

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Whateley Hall

Whateley Hall (not to be confused with Whately Hall in Banbury) was a stately home in the Warwickshire countryside near Castle Bromwich.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bromwich

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