Birmingham can do British grandeur too. Aston Hall might just be the most ostentatious example of Brummie wealth, and we’re well on board with making the trip and giving this Jacobean beauty a good old gawp. Completed in 1635, this was actually the first country house of its kind to pass into municipal ownership, paving the way to the museum it is today. This is splendour, this is majesty, this is royal grandeur, Birmingham-style.