21 Dale, A.W.W., ‘George Dawson’ in ed. Muirhead, J.H., Nine Famous Birmingham Men – Lectures Delivered in the University of Birmingham (Cornish Bros., Birmingham, 1909), p. 101. 22 Quoted in Hennock, E.P., Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in Nineteenth Century Urban Government (Study in Urban History) (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973), p. 75. 23 Hunt, T., Building Jerusalem: The rise and fall of the Victorian city (London: Phoenix, 2005) p. 327. 24 Hennock, E.P., Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in Nineteenth Century Urban Government (Study in Urban History) (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973) quoting Dale, R.W., ‘The Perils and Uses of Rich Men’, Week-Day Sermons, pp. 175-6. 25 Briggs, A., Victorian cities, (London: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 204. 26 Ibid. p. 206. 27 Gange, D, and Ledger-Lomas, M., Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 32. 28 Birmingham Town Hall was never envisaged as a political space and was always used as a public forum and concert venue.
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