Download or read book Transactions, Excursions, and Reports, for the Year 1887 (Classic Reprint) written by Birmingham and Midland Institute and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions, Excursions, and Reports, for the Year 1887 Association, and which is printed in their Transactions. In that paper Mr. Birch makes a quotation, which when fully given is as follows: The present greatness and importance of Birmingham is of modern and comparatively recent growth, but the town itself is undoubtedly of very great antiquity. Although it is singularly unconnected with events that are usually called historical, and has not attracted the Antiquary or Topographer, so that the notices of it from time to time are very brief and unsatisfying, there is yet enough of definite statement, coupled with fair inference, to show that a town has existed here from a very remote period, and that its inhabitants were even then engaged on a small scale in the same branch of manufacturing industry as that still carried on on so vast a scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.