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Not to be confused with Josiah Mason College, a specialist Sixth Form College (established 1983).
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Mason College visible through the wreck of the original Birmingham Central Free Library, burned down in 1879
Mason Science College was founded by Josiah Mason in 1875, the buildings of which were opened in Edmund Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom on 1 October 1880. In 1900, it was incorporated into the new University of Birmingham.

Notable alumni include: Despite being a fine Victorian Neo-Gothic building, it was demolished in 1962 followed by the original Central Public Library and original Birmingham and Midland Institute as part of the inner ring road redevelopment. The current Central Library stands on the site of the old college.

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  • Ordnance Survey 1st Edition Map, 1890
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Sir Josiah Mason (February 23, 1795 - June 16, 1881) was an English pen-manufacturer.

Mason was born in Mill Street, Kidderminster, the son of a carpet-weaver. He began life as a street hawker of cakes, fruits and vegetables.
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Edmund Street is one of a series of roads on the old Colmore Estate which originally stretched from Temple Row in the city centre, around St Phillip's Cathedral, to the northern end of Newhall Street.
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Nickname: "Brum = Scum", "Brummagem", "Second City", "Workshop of the World", "City of a Thousand Trades"
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
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University of Birmingham is an English university in the city of Birmingham.

Founded in 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and with origins dating back to the 1825 Birmingham Medical School,[3]
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Sir Henry Fowler (July 29 1870–October 16 1938) was a Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Biography

Fowler was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, on July 29 1870.
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C. W. Hobley, C.M.G. (1867-1947) was a pioneering British Colonial administrator in Kenya. He served the Foreign Service in Kenya from 1894 until his retirement in 1921 and published a number of monographs on a variety of subjects.
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Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden (1858 - 1889) was an English poet.

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Birmingham and Midland Institute (grid reference SP066870 ), now on Margaret Street in the city centre of Birmingham, England was a pioneer of adult scientific and technical education (General Industrial, Commercial and Music) and today offers Arts and Science lectures, exhibitions
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Birmingham Central Library

Building

Type Library
Architectural Style Brutalist

Location Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, England

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Completed 1974
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