Birmingham

Also, maybe in the middle of it.

has their

equivalent of the B network now, don't they? Well, that's the West Midlands.

Yeah, sorry, you just got me.

But yeah, so that's coming up for its 10th iteration, the National Running Show, which takes place in Birmingham, sort of in West Midland to the middle of the UK.

And that, you know, that's gone from strength to strength.

So I think trade shows in general, from an exhibitor point of view, it's, they have to work hard for the money that you're investing.

So I'm the youngest of nine children.

Our family home in the Birmingham area of the United Kingdom, it was a home... with so many different musical genres playing, anything from sort of rock music to pop music.

I'm from a Christian background, so there was always gospel music being played.

My mum was a singer.

So yeah, in a nutshell.

So you kind of condensed a few things that I was going to ask you about.

For example, how you got from Birmingham to London

and

Maybe give us a little sense on your thoughts.

So my thoughts on this thing, it's almost like Ozzy's last Birmingham show.

all the artists went out there for that show.

And I kind of, I'm kind of with Lauren on this.

So as a business, we started our work in the Thames Valley, kind of in the 90s and then...

We're working in Manchester and Birmingham where we had big master plans there.

And then obviously most people in the UK know us for the work we did at Kings Cross for the last 25 years.

And I think, you know, There's a sort of like sensible answer and the kind of the less sensible answer.

He's put a quick question.

Do you know when your November next cinema trip will be? And what is it yet? I live in Birmingham, but at some point this year or the next year, I'd like to come up and join you.

That'd be awesome.

Cool.

In 1791, John Barber obtained a patent for an engine producing inflammable gas, mixing it with air, igniting it, and allowing the current so produced to impinge upon a reaction wheel, producing motions similar to the well-known alipile, which I have at work upon the table.

About this time, Murdoch, James Watt's assistant at Birmingham, was busy introducing coal gas into use for lighting.

In 1792, Bolton and Watts Works were lighted up with coal gas.

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They'd love that as an idea.

So then it was quite soon we had our annual meeting in Birmingham.

So I said, OK, at lunchtime, let's have a meeting.

Who's interested? Interesting.

Well, I suppose it all started with my granddad.

He used to be a board marker in a local independent bookmaker in Acox Green in Birmingham.

So he was well into his racing.

And when I used to go around to see them on days when he weren't working, I used to sit on his knee and he had these old wireless on and I used to mark down the one, two, threes in the daily mirror and then basically look at the results.