CONTENTS.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF BIRMINGHAM .
THE BULL RING RIOTS, 1839.
GOSSIP ABOUT ROYALTY.
BIRMINGHAM BANKS: OLD AND NEW.
JOHN WALSH WALSH AND THE ASTON FeTES.
G.F. MUNTZ, M.P.
JOSEPH GILLOTT.
HENRY VAN WART, J.P.
CHARLES SHAW, J.P., and c.
ROBERT WALTER WINFIELD, J.P.
CHARLES GEACH, M.P.
WILLIAM SANDS COX, F.R.S., and c.
GEORGE EDMONDS.
THE EARLY DAYS OF CHARLES VINCE.
JOHN SMITH, SOLICITOR
PURE, SOLUBLE, REFRESHING .
OR ICELAND MOSS PASTE,
CHRISTIAN'S DANDELION CHOCOLATE,
Christian's Oriental and Odoriferous Perfumes,
Feather Beds, Palliasses, Wool, Hair, and Spring Mattresses
52, OXFORD STREET.
ROGERS AND PRIESTLY, COLMORE HOUSE, COLMORE ROW, Opposite
(CHAUCER'S HEAD,) DEALER IN RARE, CURIOUS, AND OUT- OF-THE-WAY BOOKS.
SETS OF STANDARD BOOKS.
74, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
R.C. MARSH 76, HIGH STREET, BIRMINGHAM. ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY.
THE PUREST MINERAL WATERS. BURROW'S MALVERN SELTZER, Soda,
BANKS'S STRENGTHENING FOOD
FOR INFANTS AND INVALIDS.
M. BANKS and CO., Chemists, BULL RING, BIRMINGHAM. ESTABLISHED
44, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM. The best selected and most
"ALPHA" PATENT PORTABLE GAS MAKING APPARATUS. BRILLIANT,
LINEN, METAL, AND PEARL BUTTONS. PEARL BUTTON FACTORY, 250, ICKNIELD STREET EAST.
These sketches, with the signature "S.D.R.," were originally published in the Birmingham Daily Mail newspaper. The earliest were written, as their title indicated, entirely from memory. Afterwards, when the title was no longer strictly accurate, it was retained for the purpose of showing the connection of the series. It must be understood, however, that for many of the facts and dates in the later sketches the writer is indebted to others.
The whole series has been very carefully revised, and some errors have been rectified. The writer would have preferred to remain incognito, but he is advised that, as the authorship is now generally known, it would be mere affectation to withhold his name. He hopes shortly to commence the publication of another series.
December, 1877.
