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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

7 of 179 places shown — connected with Sir Josiah Mason ·

Old map
6666. 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 redeveloped7777. Mason Science College, Edmund Street — Lost, Site redeveloped9494. Old Joe and the Aston Webb buildings, University of Birmingham — Surviving129129. Elkington’s electroplating works, Newhall Street — Partly surviving, Surviving but altered
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