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St Barnabas' Church was built in 1822-23 by Thomas Rickman, near the High Street in Erdington. There was a fire in 2007, that led to a rebuilding. The church was reopened in 2012.
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The Dovecote can be seen from the Alcester Road in Moseley. Now within the grounds of Moseley Hall Hospital. It dates to the 18th century.
A small red brick building facing the Alcester Road in Moseley, it was formerly a cow house in the grounds of Moseley Hall Hospital. Now used by members of the Moseley Society and friends.
Moseley Hall was built around 1790. A century later it was the home of Richard Cadbury, who gave it to the City to be a Children's Home in 1890. Now part of Moseley Hall Hospital.
The West Midlands Police Museum opened in the former Lock Up of Steelhouse Lane Police Station from 2020. The police station next door closed around 2017.
Kings Norton Community Fire Station is located at the top of Pershore Road South in Cotteridge, opposite the railway station. It was built in 1930.
The Button Works, a historic Grade II*-listed Birmingham gem dating back to 1872, is to be sensitively repurposed into 29 apartments.
92 New Street is to undergo substantial expenditure to secure the building’s long-term survival, bringing it into full use.
Spring Hill Library was built in 1893 by Martin & Chamberlain. A Grade II* listed building. It is now next to a Tesco supermarket. Between Spring Hill and Icknield Street.
On George Street West in Spring Hill, Birmingham is what was St Peter's Church, built in 1902, but is now the New Testament Church of God The Rock.
A former girls school in Harborne, Birmingham, on the High Street and York Street. Dates to 1885 by the famed architects Martin & Chamberlain. Now restaurants and cafes.
Shree Hindu Community Centre is on the Warwick Road, at the corner of Medina Road in Tyseley, Birmingham. Originally built as a Methodist Church in 1909-10, rebuilt into Hindu temple 2020-22.
A brown brick lodge built in 1895 by A. P. Walker. Located on Bournville Lane in Bournville, Birmingham. The Cadbury Club was located behind (until it was destroyed by a fire and demolished).
The building known as No 1 Lodge is located on Bournville Lane in Bournville and is part of the Cadbury chocolate factory. It was built in 1899 as offices for directors of Cadbury Bros.
On Bennetts Hill in Birmingham is two pubs. At No 23 is The Sun on the Hill, while The Briar Rose is at No 25. No 24 is offices called Bennetts Hill House
The Kings Norton Junction House was a toll house built on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and opened in 1796. Grade II listed in 1982. Damaged by fire in 2019. Getting restored in 2023.
On Lifford Lane in Kings Norton, what is now the Lakeside Business Centre used to be a Victorian paper mill called Sherbourne Mill. Some buildings survive along with the mill pool.
The Back To Backs is located in Southside on the corner of Hurst Street and Inge Street. The only surviving example of that kind of housing, now a museum run by the National Trust.
The Plough and Harrow is a public house and hotel on the Hagley Road, corner with Plough and Harrow Road in Ladywood. Grade II listed, dates to 1832-3. J. R. R. Tolkien once stayed here.
The Ivy Bush is a public house on the corner of Hagley Road and Monument Road in Ladywood, Birmingham. A Grade II listed building, it dates to the mid 19th century.
The King's Head is a public house on the Birmingham (Harborne) and Sandwell (Bearwood) border on the corner of the Hagley Road and Lordswood Road. The current building dates to 1905.
The King's Head Clock is back in Bearwood, Sandwell, near the Hagley Road West since 2015. It was on High Street, Birmingham from 1979 to 2015, before it moved back to Bearwood.
A former public house, Aston Cross Tavern was on the corner of the Lichfield Road and Rocky Lane at Aston Cross, Birmingham. It was last called O'Reillys, closed by 2012, now flats.
A former public library on the Lichfield Road at Aston Cross, Birmingham. It was opened in October 1903 from the Aston Manor Urban District Council.
A Methodist Church in Kings Heath at the corner of School Road and Cambridge Road. The architect was William Hale, and the building dates to 1896. An extension of the 1887 church.
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