Views inside the Birmingham and Midland Institute showing the various activities on offer to students: we see organ, piano and classical music recitals, a choral society performing, two men playing chess, a debate on the future of pensions and a spiritualist (Ronald J. Baker). Raymond Roden interviews two officials from the Institute (one is a Mr Knight) about the history of the organisation that was set up in the nineteenth century to provide further education and their varying activities that include the school of music, Edgbaston Observatory and the subscription Birmingham library.
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The building on Paradise Street featured in this film closed in 1965.