Which preposition to use with birmingham

in Occurrences 12%

A new canal without locks, which brings coals to Birmingham in two hours, which by the old canal required nine, is more magnificent even than the railroad, splendid as that is.

to Occurrences 10%

We went by Birmingham to Shrewsbury: then to the Pontycyssylte Aqueduct and by various places to Bala, and thence by Llanrwst to Conway.

of Occurrences 6%

It is the Birmingham of America.

on Occurrences 5%

A suitable fiancée was found for him by his friends in the person of Miss Mabel Brandon, the daughter of a rich Birmingham manufacturer, and the marriage was fixed to take place at Birmingham on Thursday, September 15th, 1907.

during Occurrences 4%

Great indeed are the changes that have taken place in Birmingham during the past forty or fifty years.

with Occurrences 3%

Although Mr. Chamberlain is so prominently identified with Birmingham and Birmingham with him, it is well known that he is not a native of the place.

for Occurrences 3%

Leave Birmingham for Stratford on the Avon (pron.

at Occurrences 2%

The public had come to regard his absence from Birmingham at this critical moment as decidedly remarkable, to say the least of it, and all those who did not know the lawyer by sight wished to see him in his Inverness cape and Glengarry cap such as he had appeared before the several witnesses on the night of the awful murder.

from Occurrences 2%

Many of those who only know Birmingham from an outside point of view, and who have only lately begun to notice its external developments, doubtless attribute all the improvements to Mr. Chamberlain's great scheme, and the adoption of the Artisans' Dwellings Act in 1878.

before Occurrences 1%

Morrison had been for years a bank-clerk in Birmingham before his appointment to the post he now held.

through Occurrences 1%

You leave Birmingham through Coleshill-street, and having passed by Ashted-row, you perceive the lofty trees in Vauxhall gardens, which must be left on the right hand, and a few hundred yards afterwards, keeping the right hand road, you pass by, on the right, Duddeston, an elegant pile of building, the residence of Samuel Galton, Esq.

as Occurrences 1%

He was a single man, self-educated, and well-known in Birmingham as an enterprising journalist; he educated me generously, fired my ambition to succeed in the world, and at his death, which happened four years ago, left me his entire fortune, a matter of about five hundred pounds after all outgoing charges were paid.

than Occurrences 1%

He would no more have thought of looking for England in Birmingham than of looking for Ireland in Belfast.

by Occurrences 1%

"'The morning before his death,' replied his lordship, 'he came up to Birmingham by an early train, and I drove up from Brockelsby to see him.

Which preposition to use with  birmingham