Gardens · West Midlands
Ringway Centre
Ringway Centre — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
A J Paxton — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Ringway Centre is a garden of interest in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Ringway Centre is a Grade B locally listed building located on Smallbrook Queensway in the city centre of Birmingham, England. The six-storey, 230 metres (750 ft) long building was designed by architect James Roberts as part of the Inner Ring Road scheme in the 1950s and is notable for its gentle sweeping curved frontal elevation. Completed in 1962, the Ringway Centre was the first part of the Inner Ring Road scheme to be completed, and the only part with street-level shops and footways. The building currently provides office space on its upper floors and commercial space at street level.
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Background
History
Smallbrook Street was built up during the medieval period as the start of the route southwest of the Bull Ring Markets. By the early twentieth century the site of the Ringway Centre was occupied by many small Victorian commercial and residential buildings. In 1940 during World War II most of the buildings on the south side of Smallbrook Street were destroyed by German bombing, including the Frank Matcham designed Empire Palace Theatre of 1894 on the corner of Smallbrook Street and Hurst Street. A few buildings survived the Birmingham Blitz, most notably the Scala Cinema which stood at the western end of the Ringway until its demolition in 1960 for the construction of Scala House. From 1940…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.4756, -1.8981
- Address
- Smallbrook Queensway
- Established
- 1950
- Official site
- www.oldreptheatre.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q24007823 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Ringway Centre (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Ringway Centre?
- Ringway Centre is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.
- When was Ringway Centre built?
- Built or established in 1950.
- Who owns Ringway Centre?
- Ringway Centre is owned by CEG.