23-417: Aston Park could be Aston Park, Birmingham Aston Park, Cheshire Aston Park, Flintshire Aston Park, Dallas [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
46-513: A borough. Aston Hall is now a community museum managed by Birmingham Museums Trust , having previously been managed by Birmingham City Council until 2012. Aston Hall is open to the public during spring, summer and autumn months, following extensive renovation from 2006 to 2009. It boasts a series of period rooms which have furniture, paintings, textiles and metalwork from the collections of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery . Visible from
69-440: A stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term magazine (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Contributions to the magazine frequently took the form of letters, addressed to "Mr. Urban". The iconic illustration of St John's Gate , Clerkenwell , on
92-472: A writer was with The Gentleman's Magazine . During a time when parliamentary reporting was banned, Johnson regularly contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia". Though they reflected the positions of the participants, the words of the debates were mostly Johnson's own. The name " Columbia ", a poetic name for America coined by Johnson, first appears in a 1738 weekly publication of
115-544: Is a leading example of the Jacobean prodigy house . In 1864, the house was bought by Birmingham Corporation , the first historic country house to pass into municipal ownership, and is still owned by Birmingham City Council . It is now a community museum managed by the Birmingham Museums Trust and, following a major renovation completed in 2009, is open to the public. Using a design by John Thorpe , construction
138-534: Is available at the Family History Library (FHL) under the call number 942 B2g Index, and is also available on microfilm (#599738–#599761) or microfiche (#6026701). In addition to the index, the FHL also has the magazine itself available in various formats. An abstract of the "chief contents of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868" was published by George L. Gomme in 1891. He describes it as "excerpts from
161-653: The House less than 200 yards to the north is Aston Villa Football club stadium. The hall received 28,804 visitors in 2019. The easternmost part of the grounds made way for the A38(M) motorway , also known as the Aston Expressway. This opened in 1972 and gave the city centre a direct link with the M6 motorway . In October 2019, the mansion was named as the UK's top haunted heritage site, according to
184-451: The Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, &c." covering 1731–1786, and volume 4 contains an "Index of Names of Persons" covering 1731–1818. The indexes are by surname only and are available online for free through Google Books: David Dobson gleaned references to American births, marriages, and deaths from The Gentleman's Magazine and published it as American Vital Records from
207-642: The Museum of Arms were moved to Aston Hall after a fire damaged the municipal public library and Birmingham and Midland Institute , which shared a building in Paradise Street, until the building of the current Art Gallery in the Council House complex. In the 1920s, the Birmingham Corporation was having financial troubles and had to choose between saving Aston Hall and the nearby Perry Hall . Aston Hall
230-759: The Spectrum Paranormal Investigations and National Lottery . In October 2023, Aston Hall became home to a parkrun , a free, weekly timed 5 km run which takes place every Saturday morning at 9am. The parkrun ceased running 10 months later in August 2024, however it is hoped this will restart again in the future. The Gentleman%27s Magazine The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in London , England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It
253-521: The Vice President of The Birmingham Civic Society, Gilbert Barling . As of January 2011, Birmingham City Council was working on the restoration of the statue, the head of which was missing. The council appealed for old photographs to assist in its reconstruction. In 1938, the Pageant of Birmingham, with around 10,000 performers, was held in the grounds, to commemorate the centenary of Birmingham becoming
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#1732852213193276-474: The company ran into financial difficulties, the house was bought by the Birmingham Corporation in 1864, becoming the first historic country house to pass into municipal ownership. Aston Hall was visited by Washington Irving , who wrote about it as Bracebridge Hall , taking the name from Abraham Bracebridge, husband of the last member of the Holte family to live there. Irving's The Sketch Book stories described
299-475: The damage is still evident, and there is a hole in the staircase where a cannonball went through a window and an open door, and into the banister. The house remained in the Holte family until 1817, when it was sold and leased by James Watt Jr. , son of industrial pioneer James Watt . The house was purchased in 1858 by a private company (the Aston Hall and Park Company Ltd) for use as a public park and museum. After
322-542: The debates of the British Parliament in the magazine. The magazine's long-running motto, E pluribus unum , Latin for "Out of many, one", is thought to have inspired the use of the phrase as an unofficial motto of the United States. Motteux's The Gentleman's Journal had previously used the phrase. A skilled businessman, Edward Cave developed an extensive distribution system for The Gentleman's Magazine . It
345-426: The front of each issue (occasionally updated over the years) depicted Cave's home, in effect, the magazine's "office". Before the founding of The Gentleman's Magazine , there were specialised journals, but no such wide-ranging publications (although there had been attempts, such as The Gentleman's Journal , which was edited by Peter Motteux and ran from 1692 to 1694). Samuel Johnson 's first regular employment as
368-489: The harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, that had largely been abandoned. An Aston Hall custom the owners afforded the servants of the house on Christmas Eve appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1795, which said: "the servants have full liberty to drink, dance, sing, and go to bed when they please." For a few years from 1879, Birmingham's collections of art and
391-550: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aston_Park&oldid=913679549 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aston Park, Birmingham Aston Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean house in Aston , Birmingham , England, designed by John Thorpe and built between 1618 and 1635. It
414-640: The original publications containing local history and information, topographical details, and family history are presented here, organized into volumes by county". Gomme's work has been digitised and indexed by Ancestry.com and is available online to Ancestry subscribers or at subscribing libraries. A four-volume set of indexes was compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the British Museum ) with some assistance or later editing by John Nichols and by Gabriel Richard. The contents of these indexes are given as: Volume 2 includes an "Index of Names to
437-601: The title formally "in print". In addition to an index for each year of The Gentleman's Magazine , which was usually published with the December issue of the magazine, a full index was compiled by the College of Arms and typed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. This 75-volume index, covering the years 1731–1850, gives the full name and an abbreviated reference to the date, event, and any other person(s) in each entry. The index
460-610: Was commenced in April 1618 by Sir Thomas Holte , who finally moved into the hall in 1631. The house was completed in April 1635, and is now Grade I listed . It sits in a large park, part of which became Villa Park , the home ground of the Aston Villa football club . The park is listed Grade II in Historic England 's Register of Parks and Gardens . The house was severely damaged after an attack by Parliamentary troops in 1643. Some of
483-530: Was read throughout the English-speaking world and continued to flourish through the 18th century and much of the 19th century under a series of different editors and publishers. It went into decline towards the end of the 19th century and finally ceased general publication in September 1907. However, issues consisting of four pages each were printed in very small editions between late 1907 and 1922 in order to keep
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#1732852213193506-604: Was saved, and in 1927, the Birmingham Civic Society designed formal gardens which were constructed by the city with a workforce recruited from the unemployed and paid for by government grants. The scheme included fountains, terracing and stone urns and a statue of Pan , by William Bloye , which the Civic Society paid for itself. In 1934 the finished work was presented to the City Parks Committee and unveiled by
529-558: Was the first to use the term magazine (from the French magazine , meaning "storehouse") for a periodical . Samuel Johnson 's first regular employment as a writer was with The Gentleman's Magazine . The original complete title was The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer . Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry . It carried original content from
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