TributeLegacy
Create a tribute page
Back to map All in Birmingham

plaque · Birmingham

Birmingham Law Society

Placeholder for Birmingham Law Society plaque

The Birmingham Civic Society Founded 1918 Birmingham Law Society Founded 1818 The Birmingham Law Society is one of the oldest local law societies in the country, founded on 3rd January 1818 at a meeting at The Royal Hotel, Temple Row. In 1932 the Society acquired these premises at 8 Temple Street for its headquarters, which had formerly been a Temperance theatre. The library became the largest provincial law lending library in the country and was in use until 2009. At the time of its bicentenary in 2018, the Birmingham Law Society had become the largest provincial law society representing members of all branches of the legal profession.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

Nearby locations in Birmingham

Browse all memorials in Birmingham

Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.

Directions to here