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File:Old Square, Kenneth Budd.jpg

Depicted from left to right are:

  • an Augustinian friar outside the priory of St Thomas the Apostle (on this site 13th century until 1538
  • the de Bermingham coat of arms
  • pub signs for the Bull's Head and Saracen's Head together with a stagecoach
  • view of the square from original drawings by William Westley 1713
  • lock maker John Wilkes (occupant of 9 Old Square 1713-1734
  • beehive and pound sign emblem of Lloyds Bank (Samuel Lloyd [Sampson Lloyd?] occupied 14 Old Square)
  • dancers at the ball for the Duke of York at No 11 (1765)
  • Dr Samuel Johnson and Dr Edmund Hector (occupied No 1)
  • the seal of James Watt
  • depiction of the elopement of Lloyd's daughter
  • Priestley Riots, 1791, which tried to destroy the home of Dr William Withering (No 15)
  • a horse and broken carriage which crashed into the railings of the square
  • William Scholefield (No 1), first mayor of Birmingham, 1838
  • demolition of the square in 1896 as part of the Joseph Chamberlain Corporation Street improvements

Reference: Birmingham - Public Sculpture Trails, George T. Noszlopy & Fiona Waterhouse, Liverpool University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84631-134-5

Camera location52° 28′ 56.28″ N, 1° 53′ 41.64″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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  • 2007-04-21 09:33 Oosoom 2381×969×8 (543052 bytes) The sculpture ''Old Square'' by Kenneth Budd, 1967, cast brass and iron on fibreglass, 152 cm x 793 cm, in [[Old Square]], [[Birmingham]], England. Moved from the demolished Old Square subway and re-mounted in the new Old Square. Photographed by me 16 Oct

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