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Cadbury World - A Birmingham and West Midlands Gem!

Cadbury World is a visitor attraction located in Bournville, Birmingham, at the Cadbury chocolate factory. It opened up in 1990. All about the Cadbury Bros. Several rides to go on as well.

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Queen Mary's High School - A Walsall & West Midlands Gem!

A Grammar School founded by Queen Mary I in 1554. The current Tudorbethan buildings in Walsall dates to around 1850 at Littleton Street East and Upper Forster Street. Re-founded in 1893.

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The Leather Museum - A Walsall & West Midlands Gem!

The Leather Museum opened in Walsall back in 1988, in a restored Victorian factory building. It tells the story of the Walsall leather trade.

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Bennetts Hill House - A Birmingham & West Midlands Gem!

On Bennetts Hill in Birmingham is two pubs. At No 23 is The Sun on the Hill, while The Briar Rose is at No 25. No 24 is offices called Bennetts Hill House

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The New Art Gallery Walsall - A Walsall & West Midlands Gem!

The New Art Gallery Walsall is located at Gallery Square near the Walsall Town Arm of the Walsall Canal. Opened in the year 2000. Galleries on four floors.

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Passions: Art; Culture & creativity, Modern Architecture
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The Old Fire Station, Coventry - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

The Old Fire Station is on Hales Street in Coventry. Built in 1902, it ceased to be a fire station in 1976 when they moved to Radford Road. Refurbished in 2006 with restaurants, bars etc.

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Millennium Place - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

Millennium Place opened in the early 2000s with the Whittle Arch and the new frontage to the Coventry Transport Museum. Built on the site of the Coventry Theatre.

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Coventry Transport Museum - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

The Coventry Transport Museum was established in 1980. Home to a large collection of cars, motorbikes, bikes and commercial vehicles. Including those built in Coventry and Jaguar's.

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Wolverhampton Art Gallery - A Wolverhampton and West Midlands Gem!

Wolverhampton Art Gallery was opened on Lichfield Street in Wolverhampton in 1884. It was by the architect J. A. Chatwin of Birmingham. It was extended on Wulfruna Street in 2007.

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King Henry VIII School - A Coventry & West Midlands Gem!

King Henry VIII School was established in 1545  in Coventry, as a Free Grammar School. But by 1878 that was no longer the case. Now an Independent school, built 1885. Grade II listed.

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Herbert Art Gallery & Museum - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum opened in 1960 at Jordan Well in Coventry. The building was refurbished in 2008. From 2023, they are hosting Dippy the dinosaur for three years.

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Engine Arm Aqueduct - A Sandwell & West Midlands Gem!

The Engine Arm Aqueduct was built in 1825 by Thomas Telford to carry a water feeder to the Engine Arm, over the New Main Line from the Old Main Line of the Birmingham Canal in Smethwick.

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Passions: History & heritage, Rivers, lakes & canals
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Kings Norton Junction House - A Birmingham and West Midlands Gem!

The Kings Norton Junction House was a toll house built on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal and opened in 1796. Grade II listed in 1982. Damaged by fire in 2019. Getting restored in 2023.

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Lakeside Business Centre, Kings Norton - A Birmingham and West Midlands Gem!

On Lifford Lane in Kings Norton, what is now the Lakeside Business Centre used to be a Victorian paper mill called Sherbourne Mill. Some buildings survive along with the mill pool.

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Wightwick Manor, National Trust - A Wolverhampton and West Midlands Gem!

Wightwick Manor was built for the Mander family in the late 19th century. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1937. It is in Wolverhampton.

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Moseley Old Hall, National Trust - A Wolverhampton and West Midlands Gem!

Moseley Old Hall is located in Fordhouses, north of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. The hall was built in the late 16th or early 17th centuries. Associated with Charles II's 1651 escape.

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St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton - Culture, history and faith

St Peter's Collegiate Church is a Grade I listed building in Wolverhampton dating to the late 13th century. It was restored from 1852-65 by E. Christian. Built of Ashlar with a lead roof.

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St John's in the Square Wolverhampton - Culture, history and faith

St John's in the Square Wolverhampton is a church located at St John's Square in Wolverhampton. A Grade II* listed building, it was built between 1758 and 1776 by Roger Eykyn

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The former St George's Church, Wolverhampton - Culture, history and faith

St George's Church is a former Anglican church in Wolverhampton built in 1830. It later became a Sainsbury's supermarket from the 1980s until they relocated by 2013-14.

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National Trust Back to Backs - A Birmingham and West Midlands Gem!

The Back To Backs is located in Southside on the corner of Hurst Street and Inge Street. The only surviving example of that kind of housing, now a museum run by the National Trust.

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Oak House Museum - A Sandwell Gem!

Oak House is a half-timbered Yeoman's farmers house in West Bromwich, Sandwell, now a museum. A Grade II* listed building dating to the late 16th century. 

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Queen's Building - A Wolverhampton Gem!

The Queen's Building was the entrance gateway to Wolverhampton High Level Station, opened in 1849. Now near the Wolverhampton Interchange and Bus Station. Last used as a Costa Coffee.

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Plough and Harrow - A Birmingham Gem!

The Plough and Harrow is a public house and hotel on the Hagley Road, corner with Plough and Harrow Road in Ladywood. Grade II listed, dates to 1832-3. J. R. R. Tolkien once stayed here.

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The Ivy Bush, Ladywood - A Birmingham Gem!

The Ivy Bush is a public house on the corner of Hagley Road and Monument Road in Ladywood, Birmingham. A Grade II listed building, it dates to the mid 19th century.

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The Catholic Church of Saint Michael and the Holy Angels, West Bromwich - Culture, history and faith

The Catholic Church of Saint Michael and the Holy Angels is located on the corner of St Michael Street and High Street in West Bromwich, Sandwell. It was built 1875 -77 by Dunn and Hansom.

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