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The venue was known as Birmingham International Arena until 1 September 1983, [5] then as NEC Arena from 5 September 1983 to 31 August 2008. From 1 September 2008, the NEC Arena was officially renamed as the LG Arena , following a naming-rights sponsorship deal with global electronics company LG .
The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is an exhibition centre located in Marston Green, England, near to Birmingham and Solihull. [1] It is near junction 6 of the M42 motorway, and is adjacent to Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International railway station. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976.
Map from Birmingham Corporation Inner Ring Road Key Plan, 1946 The partially completed Queensway tunnel, viewed from the junction of Paradise Street and Easy Row in 1969. Birmingham's inner ring road was first planned by Herbert Manzoni in 1943 and an Act of Parliament permitting construction was passed in 1946. Due to financial controls ...
The Rotunda is a cylindrical highrise building in Birmingham, England.The Grade II listed building is 81 metres (266 ft) tall and was completed in 1965. Originally designed to be an office block, by architect James A. Roberts ARIBA, it was refurbished between 2004 and 2008 by Urban Splash with Glenn Howells who turned it into a residential building, with serviced apartments on 19th and 20th ...
[2] 11 Bennetts Hill (now demolished) was the birthplace of the artist Edward Burne-Jones in 1833, a fact commemorated by a Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque on the site. The neighbouring house, 10 Bennetts Hill, was occupied by David Barnett and Samuel Neustadt, both Jewish jewellery merchants.
Marston Green began as a small village surrounded by agricultural land in the estate of Coleshill [2] at this time, the village was known as Merstone [3] The village grew into a leafy suburb in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, due to the construction of many detached and semi-detached homes in the 1930s, which were typical of many suburban homes in the area.
Birmingham Business Park is 'the most established out-of-town office park in the Midlands' and is home to 116 companies, over 7000 employees and is the European and UK office headquarters for over 20 organisations. The Park offers 24 hour security and an on-site management team.
Fingerpost at Rotton Park Junction on the New Main Line crossroads showing the Old Main Line loops left and right) The Icknield Port Loop (originally the Rotton Park Loop) [1] is a 0.6-mile (1 km) loop of the eighteenth-century-built Old BCN Main Line canal in Birmingham, England, about 2 miles (3 km) west of the city centre, which opened to traffic on 6 November 1769 and in some definitions ...