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Emblematic of this was the new Bull Ring Shopping Centre. Birmingham also became a centre of the national motorway network, with Spaghetti Junction. Much of the re-building of the postwar period would in later decades be regarded as mistaken, especially the large numbers of concrete buildings and ringroads which gave the city a reputation for ...
The 15th century Old Crown, originally the hall of the Guild of St John, Deritend, is the sole surviving secular building of the medieval town.. Although place-name evidence indicates that Birmingham was established by the early 7th century, [3] the exact location of the Anglo-Saxon settlement is uncertain and no known trace of it survives. [4]
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The visitor centre constructed in 2002. Blakesley Hall, a grade II* listed building [1] is a Tudor hall on Blakesley Road in Yardley, Birmingham, England. It is one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham and is a typical example of Tudor architecture with the use of darkened timber and wattle-and-daub infill, with an external lime render which ...
Birmingham City Council retakes ownership of Birmingham Elmdon Airport. 1961 Summer: Construction of the Bull Ring Shopping Centre begins. 25 August: Police launch a murder inquiry after the strangled body of missing teenager Jacqueline Thomas is found on an allotment in the Alum Rock area. The probable murderer is not identified until 2007 and ...
Old Market Hall and Fountain, Birmingham (1880) by Walter Langley. In the centre of the 365-foot (111 m) long, 180-foot (55 m) wide and 60-foot (18 m) tall hall was an ornate bronze fountain, designed and made by Messenger and Sons, and given by the Street Commissioners upon their retirement in 1851. [13]
Andy Hamilton. Jazz has been popular in the city since the 1920s. [33] The Harmonic Festival, [34] the Mostly Jazz Festival [35] and the annual International Jazz Festival run alongside the year-round contemporary programme presented by promoters and development agency Jazzlines, which is now integrated into Performances Birmingham Limited that runs Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall ...
This decorative scheme for the Town Hall and the whole of the city was devised by William Haywood, Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society. [13] Paul Robeson performs at Birmingham Town Hall on 7 March 1939, in aid of a local charity, the Birmingham Mail Christmas Tree Fund. [14] The advertised pianist was Lawrence Brown. [15]