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Birmingham Midlands Warwickshire West Midlands Worcestershire
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Fees £51 - £149 After Dinner Speaker Art and Architecture History
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Kevin Thomas

Location: Kings Heath, Birmingham
About The Speaker...

Looking for a talk that’s equal parts eye-opening, entertaining, and just a little bit eccentric? Kevin Thomas is an award-winning guide and the man behind some of Birmingham’s most popular and peculiar walking tours.

About Their Talks...

With 40 years’ experience as an architectural photographer and designer, Kevin brings buildings to life and lifts the lid on the stories they’ve been hiding. His walking tours have been featured in The Times and described as “witty, weird, and wonderfully well-researched.” Kevin is available to give illustrated talks to heritage groups, U3As, WI branches, local history societies and anyone curious about Birmingham’s buried past. Expect juicy tales, forgotten figures, oddball objects, and the kind of facts that leave you saying: “I never knew that!”

Fee:

£75 for talks in the West Midlands.

My Contact Details:
Phone:

07515680749

Email:

Kevin2230111@yahoo.com

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Lost Pubs of the Jewellery Quarter

We’ll explore some of the most intriguing and eccentric pubs in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter, a neighbourhood once teeming with taverns, tales, and trouble. Meet The Vampire: part pub, part garden centre, part natural history museum (complete with its own gardening club). They minted their own currency with a vampire bat on it! Raise a glass to the Pelican, named after a giant rooftop bird that watched over drinkers. Uncover shady backroom dealings, gangland connections, and the darker secrets behind the city’s boozy underbelly. And hear the story of a grand Georgian pub that met its match in a thunderstorm. This illustrated talk is packed with historic photographs, quirky artefacts, and curious characters, bringing the lost drinking dens of the Jewellery Quarter vividly back to life. Perfect for local history groups, heritage societies, or anyone with a thirst for the strange and sociable past of Birmingham’s most glittering quarter.

The Secret History of Birmingham Street Names

What’s in a Name? The Curious Origins of Birmingham’s Streets

Ever wandered down Needless Alley or Pinfold Street and wondered why they’re called that? In this lively and engaging talk, we’ll dig into the hidden history behind some of Birmingham’s quirkiest street names. Discover the street once home to stray animals, a lane said to be the “foulest in Britain,” and the surprising site of a cherry orchard in the heart of the city. From nymphs to nuisances, temples to Steel Yards, this is a story-filled stroll through the words that shape our streets.

Illustrated with historic maps, photos, and a few surprising artefacts.

Birmingham Top Hats and Tales

Top Hats and Tales: Curious Lives in Victorian Birmingham

Step into the smoke and splendour of Victorian Birmingham — a city of invention, ambition, and the downright bizarre. In this illustrated talk, based on my popular walking tour, we’ll meet mad hatters, women wrestlers, Victorian opticians, and shadowy figures who roamed the foggy streets by gaslight.

Expect stories of strange cures, social climbing, and scandal in a city bursting at the seams with change. This isn’t the polite parlour-room version of history — it’s the backstreet drama of a city in top hats and turmoil.

Told with artefacts, photographs, and plenty of character.

Hand and Hammer The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham

Hand & Hammer: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham

Birmingham wasn’t just the workshop of the world — it was the cradle of a quiet design revolution. In this richly illustrated talk, based on my walking tour, we’ll uncover the city’s hidden legacy of the Arts and Crafts Movement: from hand-carved doorways to forgotten makers, rebel artists, and radical thinkers who believed beauty belonged to everyone.

You’ll see original photographs and handle artefacts connected to the movement, tools and treasures that tell the story of Birmingham’s most artistic era.

Expect beautiful buildings, bold ideas, and a celebration of craftsmanship, creativity, and quiet rebellion.

Five Ways to Die in Birmingham

Five Ways to Die in Birmingham: Death, Danger and the City’s Darker Side

Based on my award-winning walking tour, this illustrated talk uncovers the grim and gripping true stories of how people met their end in Birmingham’s past. Join me on a journey into Birmingham’s shadowy past — where plague pits still lie beneath our feet, and a lost Jewish cemetery hides in plain sight. We’ll uncover the curious cures of the old orthopaedic hospital, the vanished Italian cemetery cleared for the ICC, and the strange tale of the man who was buried not once, not twice, but three times.

Kevin Thomas Contact Details:
Phone:

07515680749

Email:

Kevin2230111@yahoo.com

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