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New terminal, The International Building, opens at Birmingham Airport. The design for the Rotunda is approved and the building begins construction. 1962 June: The outdoor market area in the Bull Ring is opened with 150 stalls. 31 August: Appointment of Albert E. Webb as chief fire officer.
The 15th century Old Crown, originally the hall of the Guild of St John, Deritend, is the sole surviving secular building of the medieval town.. Although place-name evidence indicates that Birmingham was established by the early 7th century, [3] the exact location of the Anglo-Saxon settlement is uncertain and no known trace of it survives. [4]
Birmingham gained gas lighting in 1818, and a water company in 1826, to provide piped water, although clean water was only available to people who could pay. Birmingham gained its first electricity supply in 1882. Horse-drawn trams ran through Birmingham from 1873, and electric trams from 1890. [37] Joseph Chamberlain
The Beorma Quarter was planned for construction from 2010 onwards, as a multimillion-pound 27-storey city-within-a-city development on a site at the end of Digbeth High Street, directly opposite Birmingham's already iconic Selfridges building (it will occupy the site of the city's last seven burgage plots [64]).
City expands to include Ensley, North Birmingham, Pratt City, Woodlawn. [2] Birmingham Terminal Station [3] and Empire Building [citation needed] constructed. 1910 - Population: 132,685. [11] 1912 - John Hand Building constructed. 1913 - City Federal Building constructed. 1916 October 18: 1916 Irondale earthquake. Robert E. Lee Klan No.1 formed ...
The position was created in the 1950s by the Public Works department to assist the design and construction of large building projects that were prompted by the demands of the growing population and by the vast amounts of money being invested into regenerating areas that had been devastated by the Luftwaffe in the Birmingham Blitz.
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It was the only new office building to be completed in Birmingham in 1995. In 2013, Deutsche Bank extended its lease for another 15 years. The headquarters of the Birmingham Organising Committee of the 2022 Commonwealth Games are also located in One Brindleyplace and has taken up the 73,000 sq ft (6,800 m 2), five-floor office until December 2022.