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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

9 of 179 places shown ·

Old map
1212. St John’s Chapel, Deritend — Lost1414. Empire Palace Theatre, Hurst Street — Lost, Site redeveloped1717. St Thomas’s Church, Bath Row — Partly surviving, Lost4343. Boulton’s warehouse, Livery Street (site) — Lost, Site redeveloped7070. The Victorian New Street Station — Lost, Site redeveloped7373. Prince of Wales Theatre, Broad Street — Lost, Site redeveloped128128. BSA works, Armoury Road, Small Heath — Lost, Site redeveloped130130. Curzon Street Station (1838) — Partly surviving, Surviving but altered, At risk134134. Birmingham Market Hall — Lost, Site redeveloped
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