Victoria Square in Birmingham, is over run with rabbits again after 500 years. In the 1500’s the monks that lived on the site of today’s Council House kept rabbits for food in a Conigreave. Coni meaning rabbit and greave a clearing in a wood, hence the name of Congreve Passage, the pedestrian route between the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Central Library. The rabbits this time however are part of a children’s charity event sponsored by Lindt.
On the day of writing our Saturday afternoon walk visited sites connected with the growth of Cadbury in the city, but we skirted Victoria Square avoiding the Swiss Chocolate competitor.
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