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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 ·

Old map
4141. Birmingham Assay Office, Bull Lane (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4242. Birmingham Assay Office, first rooms at the King’s Head, New Street (site) — Lost102102. 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 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