Description:This, the second issue of John Kempson’s MAP OF THE TOWN AND PARISH OF Birmingham, bears the same heading and, it might erroneously be assumed from this heading, the same publication date. It shows little change from the first issue other than the extension of Frederick Street and the addition of Regents Place, both in the district that will later become the Jewellery Quarter. These additions could have been made at any time between 1811 and 1818. This copy is annotated "The blue shade shows the Parish of St. Philip, J Kempson."
TOWN AND PARISH OF BIRMINGHAM JOHN KEMPSON 1811-18 MAP/174791
This second issue of John Kempson’s Map of the Town and Parish of Birmingham still bears the legend in the top right hand corner of the map
TO THE COMMISIONERS OF THE STREET ACTS, THIS MAP OF THE TOWN AND PARISH OF Birmingham, shewing the Boundaries as perambulated by them, IN THE YEAR 1810, Is most respectfully inscribed by their most obedient Servant JOHN KEMPSON Surveyor.
It has the same set of Hackney Coach fares as on Kempson’s 1808 town map in the bottom left hand corner but now carries the line
Published April 1811 by John Kempson
In the bottom right-hand corner.
The map still has 21o north of west at the top and the borders enclose an area 4.6 kilometres by 6.9 kilometres centred on the north side of Goodman Street between King Edwards Road and Summer Hill.
Only two minor differences from issue 1 of the map [MAP/384603] are shown just beyond Newhall Hill in what is to become the Jewellery Quarter. Frederick Street now extends to level with the bend in Martin Street and a new street, Regent Street, joins the two.
This copy of the 1st version of issue 2 is annotated “The blue shade shows the Parish of St. Philip.” As William Hutton, Birmingham’s first historian, described it in his An History of Birmingham, first published in 1781
‘… a portion of land, about one hundred acres, nearly triangular, and about three-fourths built up, was taken out of the centre of St. Martin’s, like a shred of cloth out of a great coat to make a less, and constituted a separate parish, by the appellation of St. Philip’s.’
The map was definitely produced after the original 1811 issue 1 and before issue 3 of John Kempson’s Town plan which appeared in Wrightson’s Triennial Directory of Birmingham in 1818.