Pure genius; Charles Darwin regained his health when he sampled Malvern's famous waters, says Chris Upton.

The Birmingham Post (England) | May 22, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Chris Upton

This is the year of Charles Darwin (and of Matthew Boulton and Abraham Darby and George Frederick Handel etc).

We all know that Charles Darwin was a native of Shrewsbury, of course, and that he attended the Grammar School there. But the man who transformed the way we see ourselves and the world around us has other Midland connections, too.

Darwin attended a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Birmingham, for example, and lodged in New Street.

But the place which must claim, after ...

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