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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

37 of 179 places shown ·

Old map
11. Holy Trinity Church, Camp Hill — Surviving22. Warwick Bar — Surviving33. Duddeston Viaduct — Surviving1010. The Old Crown, Deritend — Surviving3838. Matthew Boulton’s monument by Flaxman, St Mary’s, Handsworth — Surviving, Relocated5050. Westley Richards, Pritchett Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered5353. West Smethwick Park — Surviving5555. Witton Cemetery — Surviving, Surviving but altered5959. Farm (Lloyd’s Farmhouse), Sparkbrook — Surviving, Surviving but altered6060. The Custard Factory (Bird’s Devonshire Works) — Surviving, Surviving but altered6767. Bust of Sir Josiah Mason, Chester Road, Erdington — Surviving, Relocated8080. Holloway Circus — Surviving, Surviving but altered8181. Lancaster Circus — Surviving, Surviving but altered8888. Birmingham Municipal Bank head office, Broad Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered9191. Thomas Attwood statue, Chamberlain Square — Surviving9494. 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 altered102102. 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 altered110110. Lanchester works, Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook — Surviving, Surviving but altered113113. Bournville village — Surviving114114. Bournville works (Cadbury) — Surviving, Surviving but altered117117. Pen Museum, Argent Centre — Surviving118118. Victoria Works, Graham Street — Surviving, Surviving but altered119119. Highbury, Moor Green — Surviving, Surviving but altered121121. Aston Parish Church (St Peter and St Paul) — Surviving, Surviving but altered, At risk123123. Odeon, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr — Surviving, Surviving but altered135135. St Mary’s Church, Handsworth — Surviving137137. Edgbaston Hall — Surviving147147. 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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