Spring Hill Library

Spring Hill Library is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England. Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin of Martin & Chamberlain with a 65-foot clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and linked via a glazed atrium to a new Tesco superstore.

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.

Type: Building
Description: library in Birmingham, UK
Also known as: “Spring Hill Public Library”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Arena Birmingham and Library of Birmingham.

Arena Birmingham

Stadium

Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Utilita Arena Birmingham is an indoor arena and sporting venue in central Birmingham, England. It is owned by parent company the NEC Group. When it was opened in 1991, it was the largest indoor arena in the UK. Arena Birmingham is situated 2,200 feet southeast of Spring Hill Library.

Library of Birmingham

Library

Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Library of Birmingham is a public library in Birmingham, England. It is situated on the west side of the city centre at Centenary Square, beside the Birmingham Rep and Baskerville House. Library of Birmingham is situated 3,100 feet southeast of Spring Hill Library.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Museum

Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is situated 4,000 feet southeast of Spring Hill Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewellery Quarter and Ladywood.

Jewellery Quarter

Suburb

Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY 2.0.

The Jewellery Quarter is an area of central Birmingham, England, in the north-western area of Birmingham City Centre, with a population of 19,000 in a 1.07-square-kilometre area.

Ladywood

Suburb

Photo: Artrix, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ladywood is an inner-city district next to central Birmingham. It was historically in Warwickshire. In June 2004, Birmingham City Council conducted a citywide "Ward Boundary Revision" which increased the number of Birmingham wards from 39 to 40.

Brindleyplace

Locality

Brindleyplace is a large mixed-use canalside development, in the Westside district of Birmingham, England. It was named after Brindley Place, the name of the street around which it is built.

Spring Hill Library

Categories: public library and library building
Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.48509° or 52° 29′ 6″ north

Longitude

-1.91947° or 1° 55′ 10″ west

Inception

1893

Operator

Birmingham City Council

Open location code

9C4WF3PJ+26

OpenStreetMap ID

way 74488584

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q7580589

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