Skip to content
Kingstanding Together

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.

Show
What survives

20 of 179 places shown ·

Old map
11. Holy Trinity Church, Camp Hill — Surviving55. St Andrew’s Church, Bordesley — Lost, Site redeveloped1313. Holder’s Concert Hall and the Gaiety, Coleshill Street — Lost, Site redeveloped1515. Grand Theatre, Corporation Street — Lost, Site redeveloped2525. Smithfield Market — Lost, Site redeveloped2929. The Exchange, Stephenson Place — Lost, Site redeveloped3030. Bingley Hall — Lost, Site redeveloped5555. Witton Cemetery — Surviving, Surviving but altered6767. Bust of Sir Josiah Mason, Chester Road, Erdington — Surviving, Relocated6868. Josiah Mason’s Almshouses, Erdington — Lost6969. Josiah Mason’s Orphanage, Erdington — 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 redeveloped9494. 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 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