{{GBthumb|114|184|SP077878}} '''Gosta Green''' is an area in the city of Birmingham, England. It lies three-quarters of a Mile to the north-east of the centre of the city-centre. ==Universities== It is the home of both the University_of_Aston and UCE_Birmingham's Birmingham_Institute_of_Art_and_Design (BIAD), the latter being the largest Art and Design university faculty in the UK outside London. The two purpose-built and landscaped campuses, of universities otherwise entirely separate from each other, run into one another. The campuses are adjacent to the Aston Science Park. ==History== Historically Gosta Green ('Gosty Green') was part of the parish of Aston. Probably named from its holding by William de Gorsty in the early 1300s. It was known as Gostie Green by the mid 1700s, the name being a corruption of Gorsty to Gorse (i.e. gorse bushes, locally called 'goss', which were common nearby). The Green was actually two greens by the mid 1700s; Lower Gorsty Green being the larger, encircled by a road. Methodist preacher John_Wesley was roughly handled while preaching on Gosta Green. In 1849, the Chartists Lovett and Collins, directly on their release from prison, gave speeches to 30,000 people on Gosta Green. Gosta Green was visited by Queen Victoria in 1858, when it was described as: "''the centre of the locality in which the Gun-trade in carried on''", and the local gun-makers guild spent around £6000 on street decorations. During the 19th_Century, until the late 1880s, Gosta Green was the location of a regular market. The surrounding streets were filled with Back-to-back_houses, small workshops, and a dozen Pubs. Only a few pubs remain to remind visitors of its Victorian past. Gosta Green's Birmingham Arts Lab was an important centre for alternative comic art in the late 1970s. The Lab building later became The Triangle Cinema, then the frontage became a bookshop. The building is currently empty. Category:Areas_of_Birmingham,_England {{WestMidlands-geo-stub}}