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Birmingham: Pevsner Architectural Guides (Pevsner City Guide S.) A detailed, authoritative and easy-to-use guide to the architectural wealth of England's second city, the 'workshop of the world'. Its major buildings include the splendid English Baroque cathedral, the pioneering Neo-Roman town hall, and the mighty and still controversial Central Library of the 1970s. Streets of rich and varied Victorian and Edwardian architecture bear witness to the era when Birmingham's civic initiatives were the admiration of the country. More recently, the city has been rejuvenated with new architecture on a giant scale: the iconoclastic Selfridges, and the canalside precinct of Brindleyplace, where modernism and Classical Revival are excitingly juxtaposed. Outer districts and suburbs of extraordinary variety are explored in a series of tours. The famous Jewellery Quarter is a treasure-trove of quirky and resourceful historic buildings of every size and style. Stucco villas to match any in England can be found in Edgbaston, which also boasts educational buildings of outstanding quality. Cadburys' celebrated Garden Suburb at Bournville combines enlightened architecture with picturesque charm. A connecting theme is provided by the local Arts and Crafts school, which flourished well into the twentieth century. A narrative introduction sets the buildings in context. Tour Birmingham.

Discovery Walks: Birmingham and the Black Country (Discovery Walks) 30 walks with a strong heritage theme around Birmingham, the Black Country and the surrounding rural area, including detailed route directions, sketch maps, and author photographs. A unique mixture of urban, suburban and rural walks, emphasising both the industrial heritage and, at the same time, illustrating how much greenery and open country has survived. Birmingham is Brian Conduit's native city. Tour Birmingham.

Birmingham Canal Navigations Tourist map and detailed street plan at 1:30,000 with continuous coverage of the whole of the Birmingham Canal Navigations network in an area encompassing Wolverhampton, Dudley, Birmingham and Walsall and showing junctions with adjoining navigations. The map features named streets and built-up areas as well as highlighting canal facilities and places to visit. Facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators. Illustrated guide to the canal features of interest, descriptive introduction to the history of the BCN and a large scale inset map of the busy Central Birmingham waterways area.

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