Stuart in Dumfries

In St Michael’s churchyard, Dumfries, where the poet Robert Burns is buried, another monument marks the burial place of over 420 people, who died from Asiatic Cholera, between September and November 1832. Cholera originated in India and first entered Britain in October 1831. Further epidemics occurred in 1848 and 1854. Read more…

Stuart in Birmingham

Today, it is difficult to imagine that this ‘Bar-Grill-Pub’ on Broad Street, Birmingham, today the hub of the city’s nightlife, was once described as ‘one of the very best sites that could possibly be selected within the Borough of Birmingham for the purpose of a Children’s Hospital’ (Reinarz, 2009, 79). Read more…