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A Birmingham Library Deposit

Heartland

master brummie
BRL 258435 is an old Birmingham Reference Library Collection map that shows Birmingham in a circular map highlighting some features as well as old names. It shows the canals and would date from the 1820's.

Somers Town is shown and Asylum Road leading to the Asylum
 

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this is a great map heartland.. asylum road had not been cut at the time of this map...i will have to check this but i think before becoming asylum road it was called bread street...brilliant thanks

lyn
 
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