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Birmingham history

What used to be here?

Where Birmingham’s industrial pioneers lived and worked, and the buildings and landscapes the city has lost. Choose a person to see every place connected with them, or press “What’s near me?” — and pull the tab on the right to compare today’s streets with the Ordnance Survey map of 1888–1913.

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What survives

179 of 179 places shown

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11. Holy Trinity Church, Camp Hill — Surviving22. Warwick Bar — Surviving33. Duddeston Viaduct — Surviving44. Curzon Street Roundhouse — Lost55. St Andrew’s Church, Bordesley — Lost, Site redeveloped66. The Old Ship Inn, Camp Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped77. Bordesley Hall — Lost88. Heath Mill (Cooper’s Mill), Deritend — Lost99. Deritend Bridge and the River Rea crossing — Lost1010. The Old Crown, Deritend — Surviving1111. The Golden Lion, Deritend — Relocated1212. St John’s Chapel, Deritend — Lost1313. Holder’s Concert Hall and the Gaiety, Coleshill Street — Lost, Site redeveloped1414. Empire Palace Theatre, Hurst Street — Lost, Site redeveloped1515. Grand Theatre, Corporation Street — Lost, Site redeveloped1616. Curzon Hall and the West End Cinema, Suffolk Street — Lost, Site redeveloped1717. St Thomas’s Church, Bath Row — Partly surviving, Lost1818. The Royal Hotel, Temple Row — Lost, Site redeveloped1919. Hen and Chickens Hotel, New Street — Lost, Site redeveloped2020. Hockley Abbey — Lost, Site redeveloped2121. Duddeston Hall and Vauxhall Gardens — Lost, Site redeveloped2222. The Welsh Cross — Lost2323. The Old Cross, Bull Ring — Lost2424. Fish Market, Bell Street — Lost, Site redeveloped2525. Smithfield Market — Lost, Site redeveloped2626. Old Meeting House, Old Meeting Street — Lost, Site redeveloped2727. St Mary’s Church, Whittall Street — Lost, Site redeveloped2828. St Bartholomew’s Church, Masshouse Lane — Lost, Site redeveloped2929. The Exchange, Stephenson Place — Lost, Site redeveloped3030. Bingley Hall — Lost, Site redeveloped3131. Christ Church, New Street — Lost, Site redeveloped3232. Birmingham Manor House and Moat — Lost, Site redeveloped3333. King Edward’s School, New Street — Lost, Site redeveloped3434. Soho Manufactory new engine yard (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped3535. Soho Pool (Great Hockley Pool) (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped3636. Soho Mint drive-shaft tunnel — Partly surviving3737. Latchet Building, Soho (site) — Lost3838. Matthew Boulton’s monument by Flaxman, St Mary’s, Handsworth — Surviving, Relocated3939. General Dispensary, Union Street (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4040. General Hospital, Summer Lane (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4141. Birmingham Assay Office, Bull Lane (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4242. Birmingham Assay Office, first rooms at the King’s Head, New Street (site) — Lost4343. Boulton’s warehouse, Livery Street (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4444. Boulton’s temporary warehouse, Upper Priory (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4545. New Hall, Boulton’s town warehouse (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4646. Sarehole Mill — Surviving but altered4747. Boulton family house and works, Snow Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped4848. Myles Swinney’s printing office and type foundry, High Street — Lost4949. Henry Clay’s japanning works, Newhall Street — Lost5050. Westley Richards, Pritchett Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered5151. Westley Richards works, Grange Road, Bournbrook — Lost, Site redeveloped5252. Westley Richards, 82 High Street — Lost5353. West Smethwick Park — Surviving5454. Chance’s Glassworks, Spon Lane — Partly surviving, At risk5555. Witton Cemetery — Surviving, Surviving but altered5656. John Cadbury’s shop, 93 Bull Street (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped5757. Taylors & Lloyds bank, Dale End (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped5858. Lloyd’s slitting mill (the Town Mill), Digbeth — Lost5959. Farm (Lloyd’s Farmhouse), Sparkbrook — Surviving, Surviving but altered6060. The Custard Factory (Bird’s Devonshire Works) — Surviving, Surviving but altered6161. French Walls Works, Smethwick — Site redeveloped6262. Thomason’s Manufactory, Church Street — Lost6363. Birmingham Mint, Icknield Street — Partly surviving, Surviving but altered6464. Pickard’s mill, Snow Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped6565. Roebuck and Garbett’s laboratory and refinery, Steelhouse Lane — Lost, Site redeveloped6666. Josiah Mason’s pen works, Lancaster Street — Site redeveloped6767. Bust of Sir Josiah Mason, Chester Road, Erdington — Surviving, Relocated6868. Josiah Mason’s Almshouses, Erdington — Lost6969. Josiah Mason’s Orphanage, Erdington — Lost, Site redeveloped7070. The Victorian New Street Station — Lost, Site redeveloped7171. Summer Lane and the old Newtown — Site redeveloped7272. Theatre Royal, New Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7373. Prince of Wales Theatre, Broad Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7474. Old Square — Lost, Site redeveloped7575. The Victorian Central Library, Ratcliff Place — Lost, Site redeveloped7676. Birmingham and Midland Institute, Paradise Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7777. Mason Science College, Edmund Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7878. Smallbrook Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7979. The old Bull Ring and Spiceal Street — Lost, Site redeveloped8080. Holloway Circus — Surviving, Surviving but altered8181. Lancaster Circus — Surviving, Surviving but altered8282. St Chad’s Circus — Surviving but altered8383. Smallbrook Queensway — Surviving but altered8484. St Martin’s Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped8585. Paradise Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped8686. Masshouse Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped8787. The Grove, Harborne — Lost8888. Birmingham Municipal Bank head office, Broad Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered8989. Newhall Hill meeting ground — Site redeveloped9090. Statue of Thomas Attwood (1859) — Relocated, At risk9191. Thomas Attwood statue, Chamberlain Square — Surviving9292. Site of the Smethwick Engine, Bridge Street North — Partly surviving9393. The Smethwick Engine at Thinktank — Relocated9494. Old Joe and the Aston Webb buildings, University of Birmingham — Surviving9595. Key Hill Cemetery — Surviving, Surviving but altered9696. Corporation Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered9797. The Council House, Victoria Square — Surviving9898. The Chamberlain Memorial — Surviving, Surviving but altered9999. Boulton, Watt and Murdoch (“The Golden Boys”) — Relocated100100. Statue of Joseph Priestley, Ratcliff Passage — Relocated, Surviving but altered101101. Statue of James Watt, Ratcliff Passage — Relocated102102. Warstone Lane Cemetery — Surviving, Surviving but altered103103. The Chamberlain Clock — Surviving, Surviving but altered104104. St Paul’s Church and St Paul’s Square — Surviving, Surviving but altered105105. Newman Brothers Coffin Works — Surviving106106. The Jewellery Quarter — Surviving, Surviving but altered107107. Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House — Surviving, Surviving but altered108108. The Gun Quarter — Partly surviving, Site redeveloped109109. Austin works, Longbridge — Site redeveloped, Partly surviving110110. Lanchester works, Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook — Surviving, Surviving but altered111111. Lucas works, Great King Street, Hockley — Lost, Site redeveloped112112. Hay Mills wire works (Webster & Horsfall) — Surviving but altered113113. Bournville village — Surviving114114. Bournville works (Cadbury) — Surviving, Surviving but altered115115. Cadbury’s Bridge Street works — Lost, Site redeveloped116116. Cornwall Works (Tangyes) — Lost, Site redeveloped117117. Pen Museum, Argent Centre — Surviving118118. Victoria Works, Graham Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered119119. Highbury, Moor Green — Surviving, Surviving but altered120120. Heath Street Works (Nettlefold & Chamberlain), Smethwick — Site redeveloped121121. Aston Parish Church (St Peter and St Paul) — Surviving, Surviving but altered, At risk122122. Kynoch’s Lion Works, Witton — Lost, Site redeveloped123123. Odeon, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr — Surviving, Surviving but altered124124. Perry Barr Stadium (Alexander Sports Ground) — Lost125125. Perry Hall, Perry Barr — Lost, Partly surviving126126. Erdington Hall — Lost127127. Gaumont Palace, Colmore Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped128128. BSA works, Armoury Road, Small Heath — Lost, Site redeveloped129129. Elkington’s electroplating works, Newhall Street — Partly surviving, Surviving but altered130130. Curzon Street Station (1838) — Partly surviving, Surviving but altered, At risk131131. Snow Hill Station — Lost, Site redeveloped132132. Birmingham Central Library (John Madin) — Lost, Site redeveloped133133. Bishop’s House, Bath Street — Lost134134. Birmingham Market Hall — Lost, Site redeveloped135135. St Mary’s Church, Handsworth — Surviving136136. New Meeting House — Surviving but altered137137. Edgbaston Hall — Surviving138138. Fair Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped139139. Great Barr Hall — Partly surviving, At risk140140. Upper Priory Cotton Mill — Lost, Site redeveloped141141. Easy Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped142142. Watt’s house at Harper’s Hill (Regent Place) — Lost, Partly surviving143143. Heathfield Hall — Lost, Site redeveloped144144. Soho Foundry — Partly surviving, At risk145145. Soho Mint — Lost, Site redeveloped146146. Soho Manufactory — Lost, Site redeveloped147147. Soho House — Surviving148148. Perry Barr Common and the Warrens — Lost149149. King’s Standing Lodge and the Warren Houses — Lost150150. Icknield Street — Partly surviving151151. Roman Field — Lost152152. Kettle House Farm — Lost153153. King’s Vale Well and Pumping Station — Lost154154. Saltbox — Lost155155. Messuage Farm — Lost156156. Holly Lane — Partly surviving157157. Halfway Farm — Lost158158. Warren Farm and Lodge Pool — Lost159159. Paper Mill End and the Perry Barr mills — Lost160160. Oscott Brook — Lost161161. Medieval Oscott — Lost162162. The old school on Shady Lane — Lost163163. Queslett Lodge and old Queslett — Lost164164. Booth’s Farm and William Booth — Partly surviving165165. The College Arms — Partly surviving166166. The Kingstanding pub — Lost167167. The King Charles — Lost168168. The Hare and Hounds — Lost169169. The Warriors Club, Lambeth Road — Partly surviving170170. The Royal Billiard Hall — Partly surviving171171. Shops of the Circle — Partly surviving172172. The Co-op Dairy, Kingstanding Road — Lost173173. Chas. H. Davis’s Coal Yard — Lost174174. Kingstanding Baths — Lost175175. The Mayfair Cinema — Lost176176. Warren Farm Road Clinics — Partly surviving177177. Ebenezer Memorial Congregational Church — Lost178178. King’s Rise School — Lost179179. Dulwich Road schools — Partly surviving
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Old map: Ordnance Survey six-inch, 1888–1913, reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (CC BY 4.0). A dashed ring means the position is approximate; a shaded ring means only the general area is known.

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