Birmingham on Tap

On this leisurely cross-town ramble historian Chris Upton (Newman University) will trace the bloodstream of the city, and show how access to water has shaped its development.

One of the world’s biggest infrastructure projects at the end of the 19th century, the Elan Valley Dam and 73 miles of pipeline brought Birmingham one of its enduring assets; soft, clean, and eminently quaffable tap water. Before Chamberlain pillaged our corporation pop from Wales, though, it was a very different story. On this leisurely cross-town ramble historian Chris Upton (Newman University) will trace the bloodstream of the city, and show how access to water has shaped its development.