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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

18 of 179 places shown ·

Old map
3737. Latchet Building, Soho (site) — Lost4242. Birmingham Assay Office, first rooms at the King’s Head, New Street (site) — Lost4343. Boulton’s warehouse, Livery Street (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4444. Boulton’s temporary warehouse, Upper Priory (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4545. New Hall, Boulton’s town warehouse (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped4646. Sarehole Mill — Surviving but altered4747. Boulton family house and works, Snow Hill — Lost, Site redeveloped4949. Henry Clay’s japanning works, Newhall Street — Lost5252. Westley Richards, 82 High Street — Lost6262. Thomason’s Manufactory, Church Street — Lost6666. Josiah Mason’s pen works, Lancaster Street — Site redeveloped104104. St Paul’s Church and St Paul’s Square — Surviving, Surviving but altered105105. Newman Brothers Coffin Works — Surviving106106. The Jewellery Quarter — Surviving, Surviving but altered129129. Elkington’s electroplating works, Newhall Street — Partly surviving, Surviving but altered141141. Easy Hill — 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.

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