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Alexander Stadium is an athletics stadium in Perry Barr, Birmingham, United Kingdom.It is the largest athletics stadium in the United Kingdom. [1] The stadium has four stands with a total seated capacity of 18,000.
By the end of 2003, it was the largest leisure park in the country ahead of The Printworks in Manchester and The Mailbox in Birmingham city centre. [4] A Goals soccer centre opened in 2007 with fourteen floodlit pitches situated on the roof. Goals also incorporates a Sports Bar which shows year round sporting events on both Sky and Terrestrial ...
Winson Green is a loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England.It is part of the ward of Soho. [1]It is the location of HM Prison Birmingham [2] (known locally as Winson Green Prison or "the Green") and of City Hospital [3] (formerly Dudley Road Hospital) [4] as well as of the former All Saints' Hospital.
The Priory started with two courts on the Pershore Road, and moved about a mile to its current site in the early 1880s. Edgbaston Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club was founded by a breakaway from another local club which had played lawn tennis since 1872, and where the inventor of the game Major Harry Gem , who had first played lawn tennis only five ...
Fox Hollies is an area of Birmingham, England, situated on the edge of Acocks Green district. It is named after the Fox Hollies Hall estate. [1] It roughly includes the area around Fox Hollies Road (part of the A4040 Outer Ring Road), stretching from Acocks Green in the north, to Hall Green in the south. A showpiece housing estate was built to ...
Boats on Handsworth Park pond. Birmingham has 591 parks and open spaces, [1] totalling over 3,500 hectares (14 sq mi), [2] more than any other equivalent sized European city. [3] The centrepieces of Birmingham's park system are the five Premier Parks. Fifteen parks have received the prestigious Green Flag Award. [4]
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 .
Adderley Park railway station serves the Adderley Park area in the east of Birmingham, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Trains . It was threatened with closure in 2004, but was given a reprieve (although its train service was reduced from half-hourly to hourly each way).