Hockley
District of Birmingham
England - United Kingdom

Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914) was a British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended either Oxford or Cambridge university. Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city. During his early adulthood he was a radical Liberal Party member and a campaigner for educational reform.

Located at 52.4912, -1.91434 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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1836 births, 1914 deaths, British Empire, British Secretaries of State, Chancellors of the University of Birmingham, English Unitarians, History of Birmingham, West Midlands, Liberal Unionist Party MPs, Mayors of Birmingham, West Midlands, Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies, People educated at University College School, People associated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, People from Camberwell, Presidents of the Liberal Party (UK), Rectors of the University of Glasgow, Fellows of the Royal Society, UK MPs 1874–1880, UK MPs 1880–1885, UK MPs 1885–1886, UK MPs 1886–1892, UK MPs 1892–1895, UK MPs 1895–1900, UK MPs 1900–1906, UK MPs 1906–1910, UK MPs 1910, UK MPs 1910–1918, Wearers of monocles

Soho House

Soho House grid reference SP053891, Matthew Boulton's home (from 1766 until he died in 1809) in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is now a museum (opened in 1995), celebrating his life, his partnership with James Watt and his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham. It was designed by Samuel Wyatt and work on the current building began in 1789.

Located at 52.4996, -1.9229 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Lunar Society, Houses in Birmingham, West Midlands, Museums in Birmingham, West Midlands, Biographical museums in the West Midlands (county), Buildings with blue plaques, Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands, Museums established in 1995, Historic house museums in the West Midlands (county)

Soho Manufactory

The Soho Manufactory was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line principle, in Soho, Smethwick, England, during the Industrial Revolution.

Located at 52.4989, -1.9263 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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1761 establishments in England, Manufacturing plants in England, History of Birmingham, West Midlands

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 factory was situated in Icknield Street, on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter. It was created by Ralph Heaton II, using second-hand coin presses bought from the estate of Matthew Boulton.

Located at 52.488, -1.916 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Companies established in 1850, Companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands, Mints of the United Kingdom, History of Birmingham, West Midlands, Buildings and structures in Birmingham, West Midlands, 1850 establishments in England

Key Hill Cemetery

Key Hill Cemetery,, 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 in Hockley, the city's Jewellery Quarter, it is one of two cemeteries there (the other being Warstone Lane Cemetery). It is no longer available for new burials.

Located at 52.491, -1.915 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Cemeteries in Birmingham, West Midlands, Grade II listed buildings in the West Midlands

Birchfield

Birchfield is an area of Birmingham, England. It gave its name to the Birchfield Harriers athletics club, now based at the nearby Alexander Stadium, also in Birmingham. It has a hyperlocal website for the area called Be Heard in Birchfield. />

Located at 52.506, -1.90381 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands

Lozells

Lozells is a loosely-defined inner-city area in the West of Birmingham, England. It is centred on Lozells Road, and is known for its multi-racial population. It is part of the ward of Lozells and East Handsworth and lies between the districts of Handsworth and Aston. Lozells has a high population density compared to East Handsworth. It is a very ethnically diverse area with a high population of people of Afro-Caribbean and Pakistani origin.

Located at 52.5015, -1.90982 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands, UK locations with ethnic minority-majority populations

Soho Benson Road tram stop

Soho, Benson Road tram stop is a tram stop in Soho, Birmingham England. It was opened on 31 May 1999 and is situated on Midland Metro Line 1. This part of the route of the Midland Metro follows the former Great Western Railway route between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It is situated on the site of the old Soho and Winson Green railway station, which was closed in 1972. {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:52.49697|-1.93092|region:GB_scale:2000|||||| |primary |name= }}

Located at 52.497, -1.93092 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Transport in Birmingham, West Midlands, Midland Metro stops

Handsworth Park

Handsworth Park (originally Victoria Park) is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 10 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres (25 hectares) of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the Farcroft and Grove Brooks, flower beds, mature trees and shrubs with a diversity of wildlife, adjoining St.

Located at 52.5098, -1.92621 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Parks and open spaces in Birmingham, West Midlands

Icknield Street School

Icknield Street School, near the Hockley Flyover, north of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, England, is a good example of a Birmingham board school. Designed in 1883 by J.H. Chamberlain of Martin & Chamberlain, the main architects for the Birmingham School Board, it has been St Chad's Roman Catholic Annexe and is now an Ashram Centre. Standard VII classes for girls began in 1885. However, these classes closed in 1898 at the opening of the George Dixon Higher Grade Board School.

Located at 52.494, -1.9158 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands, Defunct schools in Birmingham, West Midlands, Educational institutions established in 1885, 1885 establishments in England

Museum of the Jewellery Quarter

The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is a museum at 75-79 Vyse Street in Hockley, Birmingham, England. It is a Community Museum, that is branch museum, of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. In 2008, it was named as the third best free tourist attraction in Europe by TripAdvisor, behind the Pantheon in Rome and the National Gallery in London.

Located at 52.4906, -1.91194 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Museums in Birmingham, West Midlands, Industry museums in the United Kingdom, Jewellery museums, Fashion museums in the United Kingdom

Warstone Lane Cemetery

Warstone Lane Cemetery,, also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery, is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England. It is one of two cemeteries located in the city's Jewellery Quarter, in Hockley (the other being Key Hill Cemetery). It is no longer available for new burials.

Located at 52.4885, -1.9148 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Cemeteries in Birmingham, West Midlands, Grade II listed buildings in the West Midlands, Anglican cemeteries

Spring Hill Library

Spring Hill Library is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England. Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin of Martin & Chamberlain with a 65-foot clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and surrounded by flattened ground where once it was attached to buildings. The site was previously the location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield Street.

Located at 52.485, -1.91948 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Library buildings completed in 1891, Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands, Libraries in Birmingham, West Midlands, Public libraries in the West Midlands (county), Terracotta, Ladywood

Guru Nanak NSJ, Handsworth

The Gurdwara Sahib was built in the late 1970s under spiritual guidance of Pujey Sant Baba Puran Singh Ji Kericho Wale and under the leadership of Pujey Bhai Sahib ji Bhai Norang Singh Ji. The Spiritual leadership of the Jatha is now under the control of Bhai Sahib Ji Bhai Mohinder Singh Ji. The total Gurdwaras spans an area of about 25,000 square metres and the building is four storeys high. There are five main Darbar Halls and three Langar Halls.

Located at 52.5016, -1.92455 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Places of worship in Birmingham, West Midlands, Gurdwaras in England

Soho and Winson Green railway station

Soho & Winson Green was an intermediate station on the Great Western Railway's London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill) line. Opened in 1854, it was elaborately decorated and had numerous platforms. In 1972, the station closed, along with the entire line, as funding fell into decline and passenger numbers fell. Soho Benson Road tram stop now sits upon the former station site, as part of the Midland Metro light-rail system.

Located at 52.4967, -1.93022 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Former Great Western Railway stations, Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands

Soho Mint

Soho Mint was created by Matthew Boulton in 1788 in his Soho Manufactory in Handsworth, West Midlands, England. A mint was erected at the manufactory containing eight machines, to his own patent design, driven by steam engine, each capable of striking 70 to 84 coins per minute. In addition to copper domestic coins, silver coins were made for some of the colonies, and various medals and trade tokens were struck.

Located at 52.4989, -1.9263 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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1788 establishments in England, History of Birmingham, West Midlands, Mints of the United Kingdom, Companies established in 1788

Hockley (GWR) railway station

Hockley was an intermediate station on the Great Western Railway's London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill) line, England. Opened in 1854, it lasted for the duration of the line's original life, eventually closing in 1972. It was further North, across Icknield Street, than the nearby Jewellery Quarter station, created when the line reopened in 1995.

Located at 52.4904, -1.9169 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Former Great Western Railway stations, Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands, Railway stations opened in 1854, Railway stations closed in 1972

Handsworth Wood railway station

Handsworth Wood railway station was a railway station in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England, on the London and North Western Railway's rail link between the Chase Line and the West Coast Main Line. The station operated between 1896 and 1941, and like neighbouring station Soho Road, closed during the Second World War. as a result of decreasing use by passengers who possibly found the new 16 bus route more convenient. The station site lies in a cutting through Handsworth Park, adjacent to St.

Located at 52.512, -1.9215 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands, Railway stations opened in 1896, Railway stations closed in 1941

Soho Road railway station

Soho Road railway station was a railway station in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England, on the London and North Western Railway's rail link between the Chase Line and the West Coast Main Line. The station operated between 1889 and 1941, and like neighbouring station Handsworth Wood, closed due to the Second World War.

Located at 52.5016, -1.9275 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands, Railway stations opened in 1889, Railway stations closed in 1941

Smith and Pepper

Smith and Pepper was a jewellery manufacturing firm in Birmingham, England, which traded between 1899 and 1981. The factory is now the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.

Located at 52.4906, -1.91194 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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British jewellers, Defunct companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands

Shree Geeta Bhawan

The Shree Geeta Bhawan Mandir is the first Hindu temple in the Midlands. It is situated on the corner of Heathfield Road and Brecon Road in Birmingham, on the border of Handsworth and Lozells. The building was the former St George's Presbyterian Church and was originally designed by J.P. Osborne in a cruciform shape in 1896, however was reopened as the Shree Geeta Bhawan Mandir in 1969.

Located at 52.5057, -1.91108 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hindu temples in England

Hockley Brook

Hockley Brook is a brook, or stream, in north Birmingham, England. It rises just outside the city, in Smethwick, and runs through the city's Soho, Hockley and Aston districts, to its confluence with the River Tame, beneath Gravelly Hill Interchange. From there, its waters flow, via the Trent, to the Humber Estuary and the North Sea. At the eastern end, it is known to locals as Aston Brook, giving its name to Aston Brook Street.

Located at 52.496, -1.91942 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Rivers of the West Midlands (county), Smethwick

Soho Loop

The Soho Loop is aBad rounding here{{#invoke:Math|precision_format| (2)*1,000/1,609.344 | 1-0 }}-mile (2 km) section of the eighteenth-century Old BCN Main Line canal in Birmingham, England, about 1.2 miles west of the city centre, which opened to traffic on 6 November 1769, and was bypassed in September 1827 by a straight 0.75-mile section of the New BCN Main Line.

Located at 52.4925, -1.9265 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Birmingham Canal Navigations, Canals in the West Midlands (county), Canals in England, History of Birmingham, West Midlands

St Michael's Church, Handsworth

St Michael’s Church in St Michael’s Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, England, is a Grade II listed, Church of England church, in the Diocese of Birmingham, built in 1851-1855 (and then in Staffordshire), and described as "a major local landmark". It can seat one thousand people, and was built mainly to accommodate workers from the local Soho Manufactory.

Located at 52.5002, -1.9242 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Church of England churches in Birmingham, West Midlands, Grade II listed buildings in the West Midlands, 1851 architecture, 1855 establishments in England

1907 Birmingham Tramway accident

The 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident was a fatal tram accident which occurred on 1 October 1907 in the city of Birmingham, England. A tram operated by City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd was going down hill on Warstone Lane in the Jewellery Quarter area of the city. The brakes of the tram failed and it ran away. At the junction of Warstone Lane and Icknield Street the tram overturned at high speed. It skidded until it stopped on the other side of the street, smashing into the pavement.

Located at 52.4866, -1.9181 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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History of Birmingham, West Midlands, Railway accidents in 1907, Railway accidents in England, 1907 in England