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Birmingham (pronounced /ˈbɝːmɪŋəm/ ( listen), BUR-ming-əm, locally /ˈbɝːmɪŋɡəm/ BUR-ming-gəm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the largest of the British Core Cities and the second most populous British city, with a population of 1,006,500 ...
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Bullring, Birmingham
The Bull Ring is a major commercial area of Birmingham, England. It has been an important feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages, when its market was first held. It has been developed into a shopping centre twice; first in the 1960s, and then...
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British 'Redbrick' university located in the city of Birmingham, England. Founded in Edgbaston in 1900 as a successor to Mason Science College, and with origins dating back to the...
Aston University, Birmingham
Aston University is a "plate glass" campus university situated on a 40-acre (0.16 km²) campus at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England.
Established in 1895 as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, Aston achieved university...
Birmingham International Airport
Birmingham International Airport (IATA: BHX, ICAO: EGBB) is an international airport located 5.5 NM (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east southeast of Birmingham city centre, at Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull within the West Midlands, England....
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue located inside the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham, England. It was officially opened by the Queen in June 1991, although had been opened on April 15, 1991. It is home to the City of...
International Convention Centre, Birmingham
The International Convention Centre (abbreviated to ICC) is a major conference venue in central Birmingham, England. The centre includes Symphony Hall and it faces Centenary Square. The building has another entrance leading to the canals of...
Lunar Society Moonstones
The Moonstones (grid reference SP062949) are a set of eight carved sandstone memorials to various members of the Lunar Society. Made in 1998, they can be viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Queslett, Great Barr, Birmingham, England....
Birmingham Central Library
Birmingham Central Library is the main public library in Birmingham, England. The main section, containing the music library, collections, and Birmingham Reference Library is located on several floors over Paradise Circus, with the main entrance and...
Hall of Memory
The Hall of Memory in Centenary Square, Birmingham, England, designed by S.N. Cooke and W.N. Twist was erected 1922-5, by John Barnsley and Son, to commemorate the 12,320 Birmingham citizens who died in World War I.
Built directly over a filled-in...
Birmingham Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert and meeting venue in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. It was created as a home for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival established in 1784, the purpose of which was to raise funds for the...
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BM&AG;) (grid reference SP066869) is an art gallery in Birmingham, England. Opened in 1885, it has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, archaeology, ethnography,...
National Indoor Arena
The National Indoor Arena or The NIA is a large indoor arena and is owned by the NEC Group. It is situated in central Birmingham, England and was opened in 1991, as the largest indoor arena at the time in the UK. The NIA hosts a range of events...
UCE Birmingham
Birmingham City University (formerly Birmingham Polytechnic and the University of Central England in Birmingham) is a University in the city of Birmingham, England. It is one of three Universities in the city, the other two being the University of...
Villa Park, England
Villa Park is a football stadium in the district of Aston, in Birmingham, England. It has been the home of Aston Villa Football Club since 1897. It is a UEFA Elite stadium and it has hosted 16 England internationals at senior level. The first...
Perrott's Folly
Perrott's Folly, grid reference SP047862, also known as The Monument, or The Observatory, is a 29-metre (96-foot) tall tower, built in 1758. It is a Grade II* listed building in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England.
The tower is one of...
Millennium Point
Also see- Millennium (disambiguation).
Millennium Point is a multi-use complex in Birmingham, situated in the developing Eastside of the city centre.
The complex was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on July 2, 2002.
Millennium Point is a Millennium...
National Sea Life Centre
The National Sea Life Centre (grid reference SP059867) is an aquarium with over 60 displays of freshwater and marine life in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. Its one-million-litre ocean tank houses giant green sea turtles, blacktip reef sharks...
Brindleyplace
Brindleyplace is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the centre of Birmingham, England (grid reference SP060866). It is often written erroneously as Brindley Place, the name of the street (in turn named after the 18th century canal engineer...
Custard Factory
The Custard Factory is an arts and media production centre in Birmingham, England (grid reference SP078864).
Located on the redeveloped site of the Bird's Custard factory in the industrial district of Digbeth, it is home to a community of businesses...
Carling Academy Birmingham
The O2 Academy Birmingham (formerly the Carling Academy Birmingham) is a music venue in Birmingham, England. In November 2008 it was rebranded by network operator O2, following a new sponsorship deal with Live Nation. The Academy Music Group have...
Longbridge plant
The Longbridge plant is an industrial site situated in the Longbridge area of Birmingham, England. Opened in 1905, Longbridge was once the largest manufacturing plant in the world. During the 20th Century the site employed many thousands of people,...
Rotunda
The Rotunda is an iconic, cylindrical highrise building in Birmingham, England. The Grade II listed building is 81 metres (266 ft) tall and was completed in 1965. It was refurbished between 2004 and 2008 by Urban Splash with Glenn Howells who turned...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is an art gallery and concert hall in Birmingham, England. It is situated in purpose-built premises on the campus of the University of Birmingham.
The Grade II listed Art Deco building was designed by Robert...
The Mailbox
The Mailbox is an upmarket development of offices, designer shops, restaurants, bars and luxury city-centre apartments in Birmingham, England. It includes a mini supermarket and three art galleries: the Artlounge, Castle Galleries and the Three...
Pebble Mill Studios
The BBC Birmingham network production centre Pebble Mill for both radio and television programming was located in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham, England.
Opened by Princess Anne on the 10 November 1971, it was a prominent landmark in the...
Bartley Reservoir
Bartley Reservoir is a reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England. It covers 460,000 square metres.
It is known as the place where Bill Oddie did much of his early birdwatching, and features in his books (notably Bill Oddie's Gone Birding)...
Birmingham Mint
The Birmingham Mint, a coining mint, originally known as Heaton's Mint or Ralph Heaton & Sons, in Birmingham, England started producing tokens and coins in 1850 as a private enterprise, separate from, but in cooperation with the Royal Mint. Its...
Key Hill Cemetery
Key Hill Cemetery, (grid reference SP059882), originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, a Nonconformist (non-denominational) cemetery, is the oldest cemetery (not being in a churchyard) in Birmingham, England. It opened on 23 May 1836. Located...
Sutton Coldfield television transmitter
The Sutton Coldfield transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility located in north Sutton Coldfield, in Birmingham, England.
On December 17, 1949, it became the first television transmitter to broadcast outside London and...
Council House, Birmingham
Birmingham City Council House in Birmingham, England is the home of Birmingham City Council. It provides office accommodation for both employed council officers, including the Chief Executive, and elected council members, plus the council chamber,...
St Andrews
St Andrew's is an association football stadium in the Bordesley district of Birmingham, England. It has been the home ground of Birmingham City Football Club for more than a century.
Constructed and opened in 1906 to replace the Muntz Street ground,...
Curzon Street railway station
Curzon Street Station was a railway station in Birmingham in the 19th century and is the world's oldest surviving piece of monumental railway architecture. It acted as the terminus for both the London and Birmingham Railway and the Grand Junction...
Alpha Tower
Alpha Tower is a commercial building in Birmingham, England. It was built to a design by George Marsh of Richard Seifert & Partners as the headquarters of ATV. Now operated by the developers GVA Grimley, it provides office space for a number of...
National Westminster House
103 Colmore Row (formerly known as National Westminster House) is a building on Colmore Row, Birmingham, England once owned by NatWest. It is now owned by the developer British Land who received planning permission in September 2008 to replace the...
Five Ways Tower
Five Ways Tower is an impressive looking landmark 23 storey commercial building on a 2.1 acre prime site located in the Birmingham Commercial City Centre by the corner of Frederick Road and Islington Road, near to the Five Ways roundabout and close...
Centre City Tower
Centre City Tower is a commercial building in Birmingham, England. Several companies have offices in the building, including Ofwat and Virgin Trains.
The building's architects were Richard Seifert and Partners.
The Centre City complex consists of...
1 Snow Hill Plaza
1 Snow Hill Plaza (also known as Kennedy Tower) is a highrise office building in Birmingham, England. It is 72 metres (236 ft) tall and was completed in 1973.
It receives the name Kennedy Tower from the mural dedicated to John F. Kennedy which was...
Quayside Tower
Quayside Tower is a modern commercial building in Birmingham, England. It is situated on Broad Street, one of Birmingham's busiest streets. It forms a prominent part of the Broad Street skyline which consists of many other highrise buildings....
Colmore Gate
Colmore Gate is an office and retail building in Birmingham, England. An example of early 1990s architecture by the Seymour Harris Partnership, the lift shaft is on the outside of the building and the windows are tinted a dark blue colour. The...
The McLaren Building
The McLaren Building is a 69 metre 21 story tall office building in the central Birmingham, England designed by Philip Bonham Associates. It is a thin green and brown building which is home to many businesses including Scott Wilson and Birmingham...
Metropolitan House
Metropolitan House (also known as 1 Hagley Road after its address) is a commercial building in Birmingham, England. It is situated on the A456 Hagley Road at Five Ways. Built to a design by John Madin, it is home to many businesses including...
Edgbaston House
Edgbaston House is a highrise commercial building in on Duchess Place, Birmingham. It was built by Laing Development Co Ltd. and the consulting engineers were Ove Arup. Construction cost £1,720,000. It was the result of work by Calthorpe Estates to...
British Telecom Tower
The British Telecom Tower (formerly known as the Post Office Tower and, before that the GPO Tower) is a landmark in Birmingham, England, and is also the tallest building in the city. Its Post Office code was YBMR.
Construction of the tower commenced...
Edgbaston Reservoir
Edgbaston Reservoir, originally known as Rotton Park Reservoir, is a canal feeder reservoir in the Ladywood district of Birmingham, England.
Originally a smaller fish stock pool named Roach Pool in Rotton Park it was extensively enlarged by Thomas...
Birmingham
HM Prison Birmingham (known locally as Winson Green Prison) is a Category B/C men's prison, located in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.
Birmingham is a Victorian prison, built in...
City of Birmingham Stadium
The City of Birmingham Stadium is a proposed multi-purpose stadium in the Saltley area of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, originally for Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Birmingham City F.C., to replace the current St Andrews Stadium however...
Birmingham Proof House
The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House was established in 1813 by an act of Parliament at the request—and expense—of the then prosperous Birmingham Gun Trade. Its remit was to provide a testing and certification service for firearms in order to prove...
Perry Barr Reservoir
Perry Barr Reservoir is a covered drinking water reservoir, in north Birmingham, England. Built on the site of the former Perry Barr Farm, it is not, despite its name, in the modern Perry Barr area, but nearby Kingstanding, at grid reference...
Frankley Water Treatment Works
Severn Trent Water's Frankley Water Treatment Works at Frankley, Birmingham, England, supplies drinking water to Birmingham and the surrounding area. The plant treats water from the Elan Valley in Wales, which arrives at Frankley Reservoir by...
Lifford Reservoir
Lifford Reservoir in the Kings Norton district of Birmingham, England was built by the Worcester & Birmingham Canal company in 1815 to compensate Lifford Mill for water lost to the canal. It is located at the junction of the Stratford-upon-Avon...
Wychall Reservoir
Wychall Reservoir, is a canal compensation reservoir in the Kings Norton district of Birmingham, England.
It was built in the early 1800s by the Worcester Canal Company, after mill owners claimed that water was being taken from the River Rea to fill...
Pallasades Shopping Centre
The Pallasades is a 1960s shopping centre located in Birmingham, UK. The centre was built as part of the reconstruction of New Street Station, and was formerly known as Birmingham Shopping Centre. It occupies 290,000 square feet (26,942 m) above the...
Alexander Stadium
The Alexander Stadium is the main athletics stadium located within Perry Park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at grid reference SP065925. It has staged the Amateur Athletics Association Championships, and was the venue of the 1998 Disability...
Frankley Reservoir
Frankley Reservoir is a semi-circular reservoir for drinking water in Birmingham, England. Its construction was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Water Act of 1892. It was built by Abram Kellett of Ealing in 1904.
It contains 900,000m of...
Saint Chad's Cathedral
The Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of Saint Chad is the Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and province of the Catholic Church in Great Britain. The cathedral, which dedicated to Saint Chad of Mercia, was the first...
Edgbaston Cricket Ground
Edgbaston Cricket Ground (also known as Edgbaston Stadium) is a cricket venue in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club, and is also used for Test matches and One Day Internationals.
Edgbaston...
Birmingham School of Art
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal art school based in the centre of Birmingham, England. Although the organisation was absorbed by Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971 and is now part of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art...
Chinese Pagoda
The Chinese Pagoda is a landmark in Birmingham, England. It is a stone carving of a Chinese pagoda, carved in Fujian, China and donated to the city by Mr C K Tang. Located in the centre of the Holloway Circus roundabout on the Inner Ring Road, it...
Birmingham Assay Office
The Birmingham Assay Office is one of the four remaining assay offices in the United Kingdom.
The development of a silver industry in 18th century Birmingham was hampered by the legal requirement that items of solid silver be assayed, and the...
Digbeth Coach Station
Birmingham Coach Station in Digbeth, Birmingham, England is operated by National Express. It sits to the south-east of the city centre, on the site of an earlier facility known as Digbeth Coach Station. A major interchange on Britain's coach network...
