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Scholefield Tower, Newtown, Birmingham
Completed in 1965 by Wimpey, the tower contains 90 flats and is one of nine tower blocks on the St George's housing estate. Joshua Scholefield and William Scholefield were both leading civic figures during Birmingham's industrial expansion in the Victorian period.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 1 Oct 2015
0.01 miles
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Legoland in Birmingham?
Tower blocks by New John Street - erected following a comprehensive slum clearance programme in the nineteen sixties.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 1 Oct 2015
0.07 miles
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Daffodils in Newtown
Spring has come to this small patch of inner city parkland to the north of New John Street.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 17 Mar 2017
0.10 miles
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New John Street West, Newtown
The tower blocks, each of 15 storeys, form part of the St George's Estate and date from the early 1960s. The nearest to the camera is Teviot Tower.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 17 Mar 2017
0.10 miles
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New John Street West
Photo taken from New John Street looking towards New John Street West, the A34 which is the Birmingham to Walsall road and Summer Lane.
Image: © Derek Bennett
Taken: 23 Feb 2008
0.11 miles
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School, Brearley Street, Birmingham
"Birmingham's first Modernist building", the creation of W.T. Benslyn, 1938-39. "The wings look 1965, with cantilevered concrete balconies and flying staircases".
Now the Brearley and Teviot Children's Centre.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 22 Jun 2015
0.14 miles
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New John Street West, Birmingham
New John Street West is a section of the Birmingham ring road (the former middle ring road, some way out from the city centre). The large factory building is the former Brandauer works
Image Beyond it, at the right hand side of the photo, can be seen Thornton House, a 13-storey block of 50 flats, one of three built on Summer Lane in the late 1960s by the Birmingham city authorities, in the area now known as Newtown.
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 18 Mar 2022
0.14 miles
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Gate piers, St George's Gardens, Birmingham
One of three sets of cast-iron Gothic piers to what was the churchyard of St George (demolished in 1960). All by Thomas Rickman, c1821. Grade II listed.
The location may not be 100% accurate.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 22 Jun 2015
0.16 miles
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Thomas Rickman's tomb in Hockley, Birmingham
Rickman (1776 - 1841) was a renowned nineteenth century architect who specialised in church buildings. His Grade II listed tomb stands in the grounds of the former Church of St George in the Fields which was perhaps his greatest architectural achievement. Tragically that church was demolished in 1961 during a comprehensive slum clearance programme.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 1 Oct 2015
0.16 miles
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Rickman tomb, St George's Gardens, Birmingham
The prominent Gothic Revival architect Thomas Rickman died in 1841. His monument was designed by his partner R.C. Hussey. Originally it stood in the churchyard of Rickman's St George, but it doesn't any more as it was demolished in 1960. Grade II listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 22 Jun 2015
0.16 miles