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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
44. Curzon Street Roundhouse — Lost3434. Soho Manufactory new engine yard (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped3535. Soho Pool (Great Hockley Pool) (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped3636. Soho Mint drive-shaft tunnel — Partly surviving6464. Pickard’s mill, Snow Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped9292. Site of the Smethwick Engine, Bridge Street North — Partly surviving9393. The Smethwick Engine at Thinktank — Relocated9999. Boulton, Watt and Murdoch (“The Golden Boys”) — Relocated101101. Statue of James Watt, Ratcliff Passage — Relocated116116. Cornwall Works (Tangyes) — Lost, Site redeveloped135135. St Mary’s Church, Handsworth — Surviving142142. Watt’s house at Harper’s Hill (Regent Place) — Lost, Partly surviving143143. Heathfield Hall — Lost, Site redeveloped144144. Soho Foundry — Partly surviving, At risk145145. Soho Mint — Lost, Site redeveloped146146. Soho Manufactory — Lost, Site redeveloped147147. 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.

The places shown