Quartz with Amethyst Crystals Finish:none Interior view of the Goldsmiths'

Interior view of the Goldsmiths' Hall showing the grand staircase

The Campanile of St Mark's collapsed in 1902

Lauren Bacall arrives in Birmingham to to promote her new book 'Lauren Bacall: By Myself' at Hudson's Bookshop

'The City Tonsor'

Quartz with Amethyst Crystals Finish:none Interior view of the Goldsmiths'Illustration of Quartz with a purple hue, containing amethyst crystals. This sample was found in Grumbach, Rhine Palatinate. Plate 31 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed: 'Tabula XXXI. Christian Leinberger pinx. J. M. Seligmann excudit. Joh. Sebast. Lectner Sculps.' Original: engraving. 1752