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Birmingham Assay Office moves from the public house on New Street to offices in Little Cannon Street. 1816 – The Birmingham Manor House is demolished by the Birmingham Street Commissioners and the moat filled in. 1817 29 May: The Smithfield Market is opened by the Street Commissioners on the site of the Birmingham manor house.
Street plan of Birmingham from 1731 by William Westley (the top of the map is oriented westwards) The explosive industrial growth of Birmingham started before that of the textile towns of the North of England and can be traced as far back as the 1680s. [178] Birmingham's population quadrupled between 1700 and 1750. [179]
Shopping streets in Birmingham, West Midlands (2 P) Pages in category "Streets in Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Birmingham historian Carl Chinn believes the name is a reference to the gang's sartorial elegance. He says the popular usage of "peaky" at the time referred to any flat cap with a peak. [ 4 ] " Blinder" was a familiar Birmingham slang term, still used today, to describe something or someone of dapper appearance. [ 5 ]
In 1846, the LNWR had obtained an act of Parliament, the London and Birmingham Railway (New Street Station) Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. ccclix), to extend their line into the centre of Birmingham, which involved the acquisition of some 1.2 hectares (3 acres) of land and the demolition of around 70 houses in Peck Lane, The Froggery, Queen Street ...
Hurst Street is a street located along the edge of the Birmingham Chinatown area of Birmingham, England. [1] The Birmingham Back to Backs, a complex of four restored houses, extends from Hurst Street to Inge Street. They are the last surviving example of this nineteenth-century construction type in the city.
85-87 Cornwall Street II* 1899 William Henman & T. Coope: 89-91 Cornwall Street II* 1904 C. E. Bateman: 93 Cornwall Street II* 1902 Thomas Walter Francis Newton & Alfred Edward Cheatle: 95 Cornwall Street II* 1901 Thomas Walter Francis Newton & Alfred Edward Cheatle: 153-161 Corporation Street: II* 1897 J. Crouch & E. Butler Crown Inn, The: II ...
A staircase on the back wall of each house led up to the first and second floors. The houses were lit by windows on the Hurst Street side and heated by shared chimney stacks. No. 63 Hurst Street shared a chimney with No. 65 Hurst Street, the front house of a pair of back to backs which were part of Court 2 Hurst Street, now demolished.