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New Street is a street in central Birmingham, England. It is one of the city's principal thoroughfares and shopping streets linking Victoria Square to the Bullring Shopping Centre . It gives its name to New Street railway station , although the station has never had direct access to New Street except via Stephenson Place and latterly Grand ...
New Street may refer to: Birmingham New Street railway station, a railway station in Birmingham, UK; New Street, Birmingham, a street in Birmingham, United Kingdom; New Street, Brussels (Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat), a street in Brussels, Belgium; New Street (York), a street in York, United Kingdom; New Street, Kent, England, a hamlet in Ash-cum ...
The street runs south-west, from Davygate to Coney Street. Much of the south-east side of the street is occupied by 3-9 New Street. One of the first terraces of identical houses built in the city, it was completed in 1746 and originally consisted of six houses, with four surviving. 1 New Street was built in 1959, in a style to match the terrace.
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 ...
The Rue Neuve (French, pronounced [ʁy nœv]) or Nieuwstraat (Dutch, pronounced [ˈniustraːt]), meaning "New Street", is a pedestrian street in central Brussels, Belgium.It runs between the Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein and the Rue du Fossé aux Loups / Wolvengracht to the south and the Place Charles Rogier/Karel Rogierplein and the Boulevard du Jardin botanique/Kruidtuinlaan to the north.
Starting in 2003, ' The Most Beloved Vietnam Television Dramas' Voting Contest (Vietnamese: Cuộc thi bình chọn phim truyền hình Việt Nam được yêu thích nhất) is held annually or biennially by VTV Television Magazine to honor Vietnamese television dramas broadcast during the year(s) on two channels VTV1-VTV3.
On November 17, 2007, three Việt Tân members, US citizens Nguyen Quoc Quan, a mathematics researcher, and Truong Van Ba, a Hawaiian restaurant owner, and Frenchwoman Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, a contributor to Việt Tân's Radio Chan Troi Moi radio show, were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City. [13] when 20 security officers raided the house. [14]
During the Vietnam War, soldiers and deserters from the United States Army maintained a thriving black market at Chợ Lớn, trading in various American and especially U.S. Army-issue items. This was the area, near the Quan Âm Pagoda where photojournalist Eddie Adams took his famous execution photograph. [ 8 ]