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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

62 of 179 places shown ·

Old map
22. Warwick Bar — Surviving66. 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 — 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 — Lost2626. 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 redeveloped3232. Birmingham Manor House and Moat — Lost, Site redeveloped3535. Soho Pool (Great Hockley Pool) (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped3737. Latchet Building, Soho (site) — Lost4040. 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 — Lost5757. 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 altered6262. Thomason’s Manufactory, Church Street — Lost6464. 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 redeveloped7272. Theatre Royal, New Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7474. Old Square — Lost, Site redeveloped7878. Smallbrook Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7979. The old Bull Ring and Spiceal Street — Lost, Site redeveloped9292. Site of the Smethwick Engine, Bridge Street North — Partly surviving104104. St Paul’s Church and St Paul’s Square — Surviving, Surviving but altered106106. The Jewellery Quarter — Surviving, Surviving but altered108108. The Gun Quarter — Partly surviving, Site redeveloped112112. Hay Mills wire works (Webster & Horsfall) — Surviving but altered121121. Aston Parish Church (St Peter and St Paul) — Surviving, Surviving but altered, At risk125125. Perry Hall, Perry Barr — Lost, Partly surviving126126. Erdington Hall — Lost135135. 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 — 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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