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The Crown Inn (Corporation Street) - A Birmingham Gem!

The Crown Inn was built in 1888 by the architect Charles J. Hodson, on the corner of Corporation Street, Newton Street and Dalton Street in the Steelhouse Conservation Area.

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The Crown Inn (Station Street) - A Birmingham Gem!

The Crown was a public house on the corner of Station Street and Hill Street, opposite Birmingham New Street Station. Built in 1881 to the designs of Thomson Plevins. It closed in 2014.

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The Burlington Hotel - A Birmingham Gem!

The Burlington Hotel is between New Street and Stephenson Street. Built as the Midland Hotel between 1867 and 1875. The Burlington Arcade opened in 1994. Hotel restored in 2022.

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Statue of Joseph Sturge at Five Ways

Between Harborne Road and Hagley Road at Five Ways is the statue of Joseph Sturge. Sturge campaigned to abolish slavery in the 19th century. The statue dates to 1862.

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Faraday statue at the University of Birmingham

The bronze Faraday statue is located at the West Gate of the University of Birmingham. It was donated on the Centenary of the University by the artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005).

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Queensgate Square, Phase I & II, Suffolk Street Queensway, Birmingham - Placemaking with Community

Queensgate Square will deliver 199 studio, one- to three-bedroom apartments and duplexes, including affordable housing, across three buildings.

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Icknield Square, Icknield Street, Birmingham - Placemaking with Community

Icknield Square is a canalside community set to introduce 234 one-, two-, and three-bed build-to-rent homes across several interlinked new builds.
 

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Statue of Robert Peel outside Tally Ho! in Edgbaston

The second statue to be unveiled in Birmingham was of Sir Robert Peel in 1855 in what was then Council House Square. It was later moved to Calthorpe Park in 1927, then to Tally Ho! in 1963.

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Rowheath Playing Fields, Bournville

Rowheath Playing Fields in Bournville. Between Bournville Lane, Selly Oak Road and Heath Road. Football is played by many teams on Sunday's.

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1 Brindleyplace, Birmingham, UK - Construction with Community

1 Brindleyplace is to be refurbished and upwardly extended to deliver education space for Global Banking School.
 

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Quay Place - Modern Architecture

Quay Place on Broad Street

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The Broad Street Presbyterian Church (Now 'Popworld') - Classic Architecture

The Broad Street Presbyterian Church was built from 1848 to 1849. By 1929 it became the Second Church of Christ Scientist. Now a nightclub, it was Flares but now Popworld.

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'The Sentinals' - Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers - Modern Architecture

90 metres each located at Holloway Circus on Suffolk Street Queensway

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St Stephen's Church, Selly Park - Culture, history and faith

St Stephen's Church is located Selly Park, Birmingham at Serpentine Road. Architects was Martin & Chamberlain and built during 1870-71. Was restored around 2014-15.

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Birmingham Pride 2022

Birmingham Pride 2022 took place over the weekend of the 24th and 25th September 2022. The parade started at Centenary Square and went towards Southside via Victoria Square on 24/09/2022.

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Statue of Horatio Nelson at the Bullring

Following the visit of Horatio Nelson to Birmingham in 1802, and his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805, Birmingham got a statue of him in 1809 by Richard Westmacott.

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'Wattilisk' - Great Public Art

 

The Wattilisk was unveiled in 1987 outside of the Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts. It was sculpted by Vincent Woropay. It depicts James Watt and others.

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Five Ways Tower - Modern Architecture

Five Ways Tower is unnoccupied as a result of 'Sick Building Syndrome'

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The Derwent Works, 32 Constitution Hill, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham - Placemaking with Community

The Taylor & Challen development consists of the restoration & conversion of the former lathe workshop on Constitution Hill.

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Metropolitan House at Five Ways - a Modern Architecture Gem

Metropolitan House at Five Ways

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Broadway Building - a Modern Architecture Gem!

Broadway building is to be partially converted to provide office, research, development, and light industrial usages for The Binding Site.
 

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PoliNations - a spectacular garden in Victoria Square

Between the 2nd and the 18th of September 2022, Birmingham hosted an amazing garden full of colour, beauty and natural diversity called PoliNations which has opened up many conversations.

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The Tea Factory - BBC Birmingham & The Wider Site

The Tea Factory is to become an 84K SF state-of-the-art broad centre for BBC – their greenest ever building.

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Equestrian Statue of King George I at the University of Birmingham

The Equestrian Statue of King George I is outside of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Originally for Dublin, Ireland in the early 18th century. It was brought to Birmingham in 1937.

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The Hazelwell, Stirchley - A Birmingham Gem!

The Hazelwell is a public house in Stirchley on Hazelwell Fordrough and Pineapple Road. Not far from Vicarage Road. There has been a pub on this site in Mock Tudor style since the 1930s.

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