Notable Residents
- Donnaleigh Bailey, Michelle Corrigan in Birmingham based soap Doctors
- Percy Bullock, Worcestershire cricketer
- Howard R. Davies, racing motorcyclist.
- Alan Deakin, former Aston Villa captain
- John Kenneally VC
- David Edgar, playwright
- Don Maclean, comedian
- Conroy Maddox, surrealist artist
- William Mosedale, George Cross recipient
- Sir Robert Howson Pickard FRS Stereochemist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1937-1939
- Anthony E. Pratt, inventor of the board game Cluedo
- UB40, a reggae band
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“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
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