• The Birmingham Proof House was established by Act of Parliament in 1813 to ensure small arm user safety, as far as it is practicable...
  • The Birmingham Proof House was established in 1813 to test firearms and ammunition to ensure user safety. Over 200 years later the proof house is still at the...
  • Birmingham Proof House, which contains a museum of arms and ammunition which can be visited by prior arrangement, celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2013.
  • Established in the year 1813, the Birmingham Proof House has been dealing with arms only by the act of Parliment.
  • The UK has two proof house: The London Proof House, founded in 1637, and the Birmingham Proof House, founded in 1813.
  • birmingham proof house machine Roger has overseen a considerable programme of restoration and refurbishment in the last half dozen years.
  • Just Thursday 27th Feb this wk, I and a group of friends visited the Birmingham Proof House where they have a tour and museum.
  • I had a Portuguese AR-10 years ago with Birmingham Proof House marks, prob a gun that came out of Mozambique or Angola and made it into British hands.
  • The gates of the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House, Banbury Street, near Eastside in Birmingham city centre.
  • I have been lucky enough to be granted permission to follow a pair of guns around The Birmingham Proof House as they go through their process.
  • A private tour to include the history of the Birmingham Proof House and the evolution of the gun and ammunition trades, focusing on the Birmingham Gun Trade.
  • SOURCES Andy Foster, Pevsner Architectural Guide, Birmingham (2005), 187-9; The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House, Services and Facilities.