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Birmingham Central Library 1974 - 2015

From the steps of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - you can now see through to the Library of Birmingham!






Discovery Terrace views at the Library of Birmingham.





They were working away on a Saturday



 
Some of my split in two photos.

Discovery Terrace - LoB



Secret Garden - LoB





Centenary Way






From the steps of BM & AG



 
One week on, even more has been revealed!

Chamberlain Square view of the Library of Birmingham



BM & AG from Centenary Square





Discovery Terrace view





The Chamberlain Memorial can even be seen from this side now!

 
Can you now walk though the middle section and down the library steps since its been cut through the library? Or is it an illusion? Viv.
 
No Viv. Still either via the Fletchers Walk pedestrian diversion, or via the pedestrian diversion from Lionel Street towards Cambridge Street. I think the subway has closed.



 
Here's one more view seen from the Hall of Memory.

The modern 125 Colmore Row behind the council house and museum.

 
The view from Paradise Street (if you don't want to walk via Fletchers Walk you have to go under Suffolk Street Queensway near The Mailbox)

 
I'm sad to see this library go, it had a lot more character then the glasshouses that are going up in it's place. The area should be left has an open public place.
 
I do like the new library design wise, but not what they have relegated it to, as a matter of interest I went in the cafe yesterday,(opens at 8 am) cheese and tomato toastie and a coffee £6, but it was nice.
 
thanks for the pics john...i am glad to see the back of the old library... those of us who were regular users will know what a horrible smelly damp building it was...

as for the hiddious thing outside the new library i have no idea what it is meant to represent but instead of spending good money on things like that maybe they should spend it on getting the library running fit for purpose

no way would i eat the cafe again...far too expensive and a rip off..£2.50 for one( nothing special) blueberry muffin is way over the top when i can get a box of 4 from asda for a quid..

feb 24th i sent an email to them requesting some info..got a reply back saying they will get back to me within a few weeks...4 months later i am still waiting to hear from them...what a joke

lyn
 
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John

Perhaps it's meant to signify the death of local library's in Birmingham ?
 
The image might just represent somebody turning into a skeleton while waiting for their books to be delivered or their requests answered...... (me being cynical) :D

Simon
 
Thanks. Nice to be able to see the old buildings but sad to see the library gone. I spent a lot of time there as a student.
 
Forgot about this thread!

One from Chamberlain Square (ex Edmund Street) from 30th October 2016



15th October 2016 from the Discovery Terrace at the Library of Birmingham



14th October 2016 from Chamberlain Square



10th September 2016



4th August 2016

 
General view of Chamberlain Square on New Years Day 2017.



General view from what was Paradise Circus Queensway next to the Town Hall.

 
I wonder if we will ever again in Birmingham have a period when we are free from major alterations and building work !!! Doubt it very much. Eric
 
Eric,

We'd had several years of it when I left Brum in January 1961. At that point we'd had all the disruption that was involved in building the first section of Smallbrook Ringway. I've intermittently visited Brum over the last 50 odd years and it certainly doesn't seem to have stopped, the road system is full of tunnels and you never know where you are going to come up, and just as I thought things had started to settle down a bit, they smash down the Library. I don't think any city has suffered as much as Brum.

The roads that were built around Hall Green & the south were originally a single carriageway in each direction. Due to the increase in traffic it seems that these single carriageways were converted to double, but cars were allowed to park in the nearside carriageway thus forcing you to use only the offside carriageway. Where was the improvement - the carriageways are narrower than in any other city I know?

Maurice
 
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