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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

10 of 179 places shown — connected with Joseph Chamberlain ·

Old map
1515. Grand Theatre, Corporation Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7474. Old Square — Lost, Site redeveloped9494. 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 altered103103. The Chamberlain Clock — Surviving, Surviving but altered119119. Highbury, Moor Green — Surviving, Surviving but altered120120. Heath Street Works (Nettlefold & Chamberlain), Smethwick — Site redeveloped
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