Fort Dunlop
Fort Dunlop, is the common name of the original tyre factory and main office of Dunlop Rubber in the Erdington district of Birmingham, England. It was established in 1917, and by 1954 the entire factory area employed 10,000 workers.Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Commercial building
- Description: historic factory building in Birmingham, England
- Also known as: “Dunlop” and “Funlop”
- Address: Fort Parkway, Birmingham, B24 9FE
Photo: Jameshabit, CC0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Castle Bromwich Hall and Hodge Hill Girls’ School.
Castle Bromwich Hall
Manor estate
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castle Bromwich Hall is a Jacobean mansion in the Castle Bromwich area of Solihull, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Castle Bromwich Hall is situated 1 mile east of Fort Dunlop.
Hodge Hill Girls’ School
School
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hodge Hill Girls' School is a secondary school located in the Hodge Hill area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Formerly a grammar school, today it is a non-selective community school administered by Birmingham City Council. Hodge Hill Girls’ School is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Fort Dunlop.
St Mary and St Margaret’s Church, Castle Bromwich
Church
Photo: Carl Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary and St Margaret Church, Castle Bromwich is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Castle Bromwich, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England. St Mary and St Margaret’s Church, Castle Bromwich is situated 1 mile east of Fort Dunlop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tyburn and Birches Green.
Tyburn
Village
Photo: Roy Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tyburn is a ward in Birmingham, in the county of West Midlands, England formerly known as Kingsbury. It is part of the Erdington formal district and comprises Castle Vale, Fort Parkway in Castle Bromwich, the Pype Hayes area of Erdington, Birches Green and Tyburn Road.
Birches Green
Hamlet
Birches Green is a small area of Tyburn in Birmingham, England, within the parliamentary constitiuency of Erdington. It is located between Gravelly Hill, Erdington and the M6 motorway.
Castle Bromwich
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castle Bromwich is a large suburban village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It borders the rest of the borough to the south east, Sutton Coldfield to the east and north east, Shard End to the south west, Castle Vale, Erdington and Minworth to the north and Hodge Hill to the west.
Fort Dunlop
- Categories: architectural structure, building, and office
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.5102° or 52° 30′ 37″ northLongitude
-1.81109° or 1° 48′ 40″ westOpen location code
9C4WG56Q+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 23483269OpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialWikidata ID
Q5471100
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In Other Languages
“Fort Dunlop” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “登祿普堡”
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