Ark Boulton Academy

Ark Boulton Academy, formerly Golden Hillock School, is a coeducational secondary school in Sparkhill in the south of Birmingham, England. It was opened in 1910 and has just under 900 pupils.

Type: School
Description: school in Birmingham, UK
Address: Birmingham, B11 2QG

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Small Heath railway station and St John’s Church, Sparkhill.

Small Heath railway station

Railway station

Photo: Michael Westley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Small Heath railway station serves the areas of Small Heath and Sparkbrook in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, which runs all the services. Small Heath railway station is situated 2,300 feet north of Ark Boulton Academy.

St John’s Church, Sparkhill

Church

Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John's Church is an Anglican church in Sparkhill Birmingham. St John's is a welcoming multi-ethnic church situated in the heart of Birmingham's Balti Belt, it is one of England's most ethnically and religiously diverse parishes. St John’s Church, Sparkhill is situated 1,700 feet southwest of Ark Boulton Academy.

Ghamkol Shariff Masjid

Mosque

Photo: Michael Westley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif is a Sunni mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, England. The website Muslims in Britain classifies the Ghamkol Shariff Masjid as Sufi – Barelvi. Ghamkol Shariff Masjid is situated 2,800 feet north of Ark Boulton Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sparkhill and Balti Triangle.

Sparkhill

Suburb

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Sparkhill is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England, situated between Springfield, Hall Green and Sparkbrook. Historically part of Worcestershire, Sparkhill once existed as a rural area with its main industry being agriculture until the 1880s.

Balti Triangle

Locality

A balti or bāltī gosht is a type of curry within the United Kingdom served in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a balti bowl. Balti curries are cooked quickly using vegetable oil rather than ghee, over high heat in the manner of a stir-fry, and any meat is used off the bone.

Sparkbrook

Village

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Birmingham, in the West Midlands, is Britain's second-largest city. Known in the Victorian era as the "City of a Thousand Trades" and the "Workshop of the World", Brum, as locals call the city, is enjoying a 21st-century resurgence as a great shopping and cultural destination.