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Newhall Street is a street
Street

A street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. It is a public parcel of landform adjoining buildings in an urban area context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about....
 located in Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
, England
England

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.

Newhall Street stretches from Colmore Row
Colmore Row

Colmore Row is a street in the centre of Birmingham, England, running from Victoria Square, Birmingham to just beyond Birmingham Snow Hill station....
 in the city centre by St Phillip's Cathedral
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip is a Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. Built as a parish church and consecrated in 1715, St Philip's became the cathedral of the newly-formed Anglican Diocese of Birmingham in the West Midlands in 1905....
 in a north-westerly direction towards the Jewellery Quarter
Jewellery Quarter

The Jewellery Quarter is an area of Birmingham City Centre, situated in the south of the Hockley, Birmingham area of Birmingham, England. It is covered by the Ladywood district....
. Originally the road was the driveway to New Hall occupied by the Colmore family. New Hall was demolished in 1787 after being vacated by the Colmores and used as a warehouse by Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton was an England manufacturer and engineer and a key member of the Lunar Society....
. Newhall Street was so named in 1766, after opening as a public street in 1746 called Newport Street and then New Hall Walk.






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Newhall Street is a street
Street

A street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. It is a public parcel of landform adjoining buildings in an urban area context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about....
 located in Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.

Newhall Street stretches from Colmore Row
Colmore Row

Colmore Row is a street in the centre of Birmingham, England, running from Victoria Square, Birmingham to just beyond Birmingham Snow Hill station....
 in the city centre by St Phillip's Cathedral
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip is a Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. Built as a parish church and consecrated in 1715, St Philip's became the cathedral of the newly-formed Anglican Diocese of Birmingham in the West Midlands in 1905....
 in a north-westerly direction towards the Jewellery Quarter
Jewellery Quarter

The Jewellery Quarter is an area of Birmingham City Centre, situated in the south of the Hockley, Birmingham area of Birmingham, England. It is covered by the Ladywood district....
. Originally the road was the driveway to New Hall occupied by the Colmore family. New Hall was demolished in 1787 after being vacated by the Colmores and used as a warehouse by Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton was an England manufacturer and engineer and a key member of the Lunar Society....
. Newhall Street was so named in 1766, after opening as a public street in 1746 called Newport Street and then New Hall Walk. The streets on the estate were named after the children of the family.

A number of telephone exchanges have existed on the street: the 1896 Bell Edison Telephone building, Telephone House (still an exchange), the Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
 Anchor Exchange
Anchor Exchange

File:365 - secret nuclear bunker, 'anchor' - ventilation shaft.jpgAnchor Exchange was an underground, hardened telephone exchange built in Birmingham, England in the 1950s....
 underneath it, and Brindley House (now being refitted as housing).

Notable Buildings

Newhall Street lies in the Jewellery Quarter and Colmore Row and Environs Conservation Area
Conservation area

A conservation area is a tract of land that has been awarded protected status in order to ensure that natural features, cultural heritage or biota are safeguarded....
 and has many listed building
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
s.

  • 17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham
    17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham

    17 & 19 Newhall Street is a Architectural terracotta listed building on the corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street in the city centre of Birmingham, England....
     popularly known as the Bell Edison Telephone Building. This building is on the corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street
    Edmund Street

    File:Edmund Street -development -Birmingham -UK.JPGEdmund Street is a street located in Birmingham, England.Edmund Street is one of a series of roads on the old Colmore Estate which originally stretched from Temple Row in the city centre, around St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, to the northern end of Newhall Street....
  • Birmingham Assay Office
    Birmingham Assay Office

    The Birmingham Assay Office is one of the four remaining assay offices in the United Kingdom.The development of a silver industry in 18th century Birmingham was hampered by the legal requirement that items of solid silver be assayed, and the nearest Assay Offices were in Chester and London....
  • Part of Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies
    Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies

    University College Birmingham, formerly known as Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies, is a university college in Birmingham, England....
  • The old Science Museum
    Science Museum, Birmingham

    The now defunct Birmingham Science Museum, or Museum of Science and Industry, previously the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works, is a building on Newhall Street in Birmingham, England....
    , formerly the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works
    George Elkington

    George Richards Elkington was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first commercial electroplating process.Elkington was born in Birmingham, the son of a spectacle manufacturer....
    , where blue plaque
    Blue plaque

    In the United Kingdom, a blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event....
    s commemorate George Elkington and also Alexander Parkes
    Alexander Parkes

    Alexander Parkes was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic.The son of a brass lock manufacturer, Parkes was apprenticed to a brass foundry at Messenger and Sons before going to work for George Elkington, who patented the electroplating process....
    , inventor of the first plastic
  • The Queens Arms public house
  • Numbers 17 & 19, 27 & 29, 43-51, 44,46 & 48, 50 & 52, 54, 56, 58 & 60, 61, 144, 199, 204 & 206, the Assay Office, and the Queens Arms Public House are listed buildings.
  • Lock number 9 of the Farmer's Bridge flight of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
    Birmingham and Fazeley Canal

    The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between Birmingham and the south east of England, by way of the Coventry Canal and the Oxford Canal....
     runs under Newhall Street, with a lock gate on either side of the bridge.


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Sources

  • Ordnance Survey 1st Edition Map, 1890