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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

4 of 179 places shown — connected with Boulton & Fothergill (firm or society) ·

Old map
4545. New Hall, Boulton’s town warehouse (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4747. Boulton family house and works, Snow Hill — 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.

The places shown