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Corporation Street is a main shopping street in Birmingham city centre, England. Though it has a distinct southern terminus – the junction of New Street and Stephenson Place , adjacent to the entrance of New Street station – the location of its northern terminus is debatable.
[4] [5] The site they selected on Corporation Street had been occupied by the old Birmingham Workhouse, which had been built in 1734 [6] and cleared away as part of a larger scheme by the mayor, Joseph Chamberlain, to demolish old slums. [7] The foundation stone was laid by Queen Victoria on 23 March 1887 in her Golden Jubilee year.
The terracotta was manufactured by the renowned firm of Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, which also produced decorative works for 179-203 Corporation Street and the interior of the Victoria Law Courts in Birmingham and the Natural History Museum in London. It was built 1903–04 by architects Ewan Harper & James A. Harper.
Corporation Street tram stop is a tram stop on Line 1 of the West Midlands Metro serving Corporation Street, a major thoroughfare in Birmingham City Centre, England. Government approval for the extension from Snow Hill to Grand Central was given on 16 February 2012. [1] It was opened on 30 May 2016. [2] The stop only has a shelter on the ...
A new frontage on Corporation Street was constructed with a circular turret-like structure on the junction of Corporation Street and Union Street forming the entrance to a Gap store. In 2004, contracts were exchanged and the Birmingham Alliance sold the redeveloped shopping centre, raising sale proceeds of £93 million net of costs.
County Buildings (right hand half was the restaurant) Plaque to James Henry Cook The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel was a hotel that operated from 1898 until the 1930s in the County Buildings (now Grade II* listed), Corporation Street, Birmingham, England, as an expansion of the Pitman Vegetarian Restaurant established in 1896 on the same site.
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Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK, and was built to a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm).