Give a Birmingham man a guinea and a copper kettle, he'll make you a hundred pounds worth of jewellery!

"It appeared in all the pride of modern architecture. I was charmed with it's beauty, and thought it then, as I do now, the credit of the place. The people possessed a vivacity I had never beheld. I had been among dreamers, but now I was awake. Their very step along the street showed alacrity, every man seemed to know what he was about." ... William Hutton