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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

17 of 179 places shown ·

Old map
1515. Grand Theatre, Corporation Street — Lost, Site redeveloped2424. Fish Market, Bell Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7474. Old Square — Lost, Site redeveloped7575. The Victorian Central Library, Ratcliff Place — Lost, Site redeveloped7676. Birmingham and Midland Institute, Paradise Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7777. Mason Science College, Edmund Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7878. Smallbrook Street — Lost, Site redeveloped7979. The old Bull Ring and Spiceal Street — Lost, Site redeveloped8080. Holloway Circus — Surviving, Surviving but altered8181. Lancaster Circus — Surviving, Surviving but altered8282. St Chad’s Circus — Surviving but altered8383. Smallbrook Queensway — Surviving but altered8484. St Martin’s Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped8585. Paradise Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped8686. Masshouse Circus — Lost, Site redeveloped108108. The Gun Quarter — Partly surviving, Site redeveloped133133. Bishop’s House, Bath Street — Lost
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