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Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.It is the administrative centre of the borough. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 13,606, [2] while the 2017 population of the wider built-up area was estimated at 25,488. [3]
On the ground floor is a pub and a restaurant. It was bought by the Jurys Inns hotel chain in 2001 for £42 million and renamed Jurys Inn Birmingham. [8] In April 2022, the Fattal Hotel Group announced that all Jurys Inn Hotels would be rebranded as Leonardo Hotels. [9] The hotel was renamed Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham on 19 December 2022. [10]
The Cube is a 24-storey mixed-use development in the centre of Birmingham, England.Designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects, it contains 244 flats, 111,500 square feet (10,359 m 2) of offices, shops, a hotel and a 'skyline' restaurant.
Ladbroke bought Stakis in 1999 [6] and rebranded the 48 Stakis Hotels within their Hilton Hotels brand, with the property renamed Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Hilton sold the hotel, along with the Hilton London Metropole, to the Tonstate Group in 2006 for £417m. [7] Tonstate sold the two properties to Henderson Park for £500 million in 2017. [8]
A 30-year-old woman died in hospital from her injuries the next day, [28] and a 19-year-old woman died in hospital from her injuries two days later, [29] as did a 20-year-old woman. [30] A 20-year-old man in a neighbouring house was also injured as a result of the explosion and died in hospital the next day. [ 31 ]
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In 1618, John Penn was operating two water mills for corn milling and for blade sharpening in Sutton Coldfield.. The Websters, a Presbyterian family, operated a blade mill at Perry Barr, Birmingham and in about 1750, Joseph Webster acquired the additional lease of the Penns Mills which property in 1776 comprised a house and two dwellings adjoining a wire mill and a fulling mill, called Penns ...
Five Ways is a major commercial area of Birmingham city centre. The area began to develop in the early 1960s when Birmingham's business centre expanded westwards towards Edgbaston, along Broad Street and Hagley Road. Calthorpe Estates, the landowners, started various schemes to encourage highrise construction in the area and to develop it into ...