I spent a week in Birmingham once - in the Grand Hotel if you will!
The company I worked for were based in Nechells (?) with offices all over the World - someone dropped out of a training course and I was packed off to make up the numbers. I thought it was very nice. Sorry, that's all I know about Birmingham - oh, apart from what I know from the Brum DVD, which I have seen with my kids, around 600 times.