The Bond Fazeley Street

[Vivienne14]

This interesting industrial site has a varied history, up to its latest redevelopment as a hub for TV and film production. The link below gives a date of 1837 for its first occupation as the Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company.
A timeline of occupants include:

1837 - 1875 Birmingham Gas Light and Coke Company
1875 - 1888 Patent Transparent Ice Company
Followed by Fellows, Morton and Clayton, canal carriers — who constructed additional warehousing and the canal basin
Followed by HP Sauce.
Link:

History | The Bond Digbeth

 

[brummy-lad]

An aerial view from 1924.

 

[Vivienne14]

This is how The Bond building appears in series 29 of the BBC programme Silent Witness. The building is a hub for TV and film production. The internal shots are convincing as the programme's "Bowman Centre", pathology facility. I imagine the internal spaces offer flexiblity for filming and lend themselves to being set up as different scenes. But have no idea as to how it works in practice. Has anyone been inside ?

Seems to me that some original, internal, bare brick walls have been retained. Otherwise there's not much interior evidence of its former uses from what I've seen so far.