For example, many do not know about the King’s Standing Bowl Barrow, or Kingstanding Mound, comprising buried and earthwork remains from the late Neolithic to the late Bronze Age.<\/p>\n
It is reputedly the site from where King Charles I reviewed his troops on 18 October 1642, during the English Civil War; from which event both the mound and the area take their name.<\/p>\n
Prof Chinn said we are fortunate to have the fascinating history we do in the city.<\/p>\n
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Moseley Bog.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThere\u2019s so many- Perrots Folly on the borders of Ladywood and Edgbaston<\/a> which people think was an inspiration for Tolkein\u2019s two towers.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have got Aston Hall, which was the setting for Bracebridge Hall, Washington Irving\u2019s book, Old Christmas<\/a>. He was the father of American literature. How often do we shout out that he was here and wrote Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow in Birmingham<\/a>?<\/p>\n \u201cWhat about where Tolkein used to walk as a child – what is now called Moseley<\/a> Bog. You would be in a dell and when the wind is blowing, you can hear the creaking in the trees.<\/p>\n \u201cEdward Burn-Jones, the greatest stained-glass artist in history, was a Brummie, born on Bennetts Hill. Look in the St Phillips Cathedral at his magnificent stained-glass windows.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you go to Kingstanding, look at the Odeon\u2026for Oscar Deutsch, a Birmingham-Jewish man who started the Odeon chain.<\/p>\n \u201cJust up from the Odeon on Kingstanding circle is a little mound which is probably the burial place of a Bronze Age leader.<\/p>\n