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  2. Birmingham Corporation Tramways - Wikipedia

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    Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK, and was built to a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm).

  3. B&M - Wikipedia

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    B&M Retail Limited, trading as B&M, is a British multinational variety store and garden centre chain founded in 1978 and based in Speke. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange , and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index .

  4. List of shopping centres in the United Kingdom by size

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    This is a list of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom, listed by retail size in square metres (m 2). Only centres with space of 65,000 m 2 (700,000 sq ft) or more are listed. Some of these are out-of-town centres, while others are part of a city or town centre shopping district, which in almost all cases also includes many stores ...

  5. Coventry - Wikipedia

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    Coventry city centre after the massive air raid of 14/15 November 1940. Coventry suffered severe bomb damage during the Second World War. The most severe was a massive Luftwaffe air raid that the Germans called Operation Moonlight Sonata. The raid, which involved more than 500 aircraft, started at 7pm on 14 November 1940 and carried on for 11 ...

  6. Garden centre - Wikipedia

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    A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.

  7. Birmingham - Wikipedia

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    Birmingham was the terminus for both of the world's first two long-distance railway lines: the 82-mile (132 km) Grand Junction Railway of 1837 and the 112-mile (180 km) London and Birmingham Railway of 1838. [86] Birmingham schoolteacher Rowland Hill invented the postage stamp and created the first modern universal postal system in 1839. [87]

  8. Northfield, Birmingham - Wikipedia

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    The shops in Northfield town centre run along what used to be the main A38 (Bristol Road South; the A38 proper now bypasses the town centre) and include Home Bargains, Aldi, B & M (opened March 2011), plus a Sainsbury's supermarket on the junction with Frankley Beeches Road (previously based in the Grosvenor shopping centre). There is also a ...

  9. West Midlands Metro - Wikipedia

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    The West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram system in the county of West Midlands, England.The network has 33 stops with a total of 14.9 miles (24.0 km) of track; it currently consists of a single route, Line 1, which operates between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the towns of Bilston, West Bromwich and Wednesbury, on a mixture of former railway lines and urban on-street running.