Stormy skies over Birmingham
1. ‘Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice’
2. ‘Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit while he was living in Birmingham’
3. ‘Charlie Chaplin was born in a gipsy caravan in Smethwick’
4. ‘Birmingham has more trees than Paris’
5. ‘There was a red-light area at the back of Rackhams’
6. ‘West Bromwich Albion’s ground is the highest stadium in England’
7. ‘Birmingham is named after the Ingas of Birm’
8. ‘Birmingham has the most lap dancing clubs of any UK city’
9. ‘Birmingham once had a Gun Quarter’
10. ‘Birmingham once had a group who met at full moon and were called lunatics’
11. ‘There was a gipsy curse on Birmingham City Football Club ground’
12. ‘Brummie and Black Country accents are the same’
13. ‘Birmingham is the birthplace of custard’
14. ‘Was Birmingham once the capital of England?’
15. ‘Birmingham is officially the most congested city in the UK’
16. ‘Dozens of Spitfire planes built in Birmingham were buried in Burma’
17.’ Birmingham is the most landlocked city in the UK’
18. ‘Cluedo was invented in Birmingham’
19. ‘Clint Eastwood once visited Birmingham’
20. ‘The Peaky Blinders gang didn’t really exist’
21. ‘There was once a vampire stalking the streets of Birmingham’