William Dargue - A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . . .  from A to Y

The Media Quarter

B5/B12 - Grid reference SP081863

Use the grid reference on the Ordnance Survey website - Get-a-map. 

Part of the City Council's concept to develop the east side beyond the City Centre, this name has been coined by the City Council for the area around Warwick Bar on Fazeley Street as far as the Custard Factory in Deritend/ Digbeth. It has recently been dubbed Lower East Side after one of New York's artistically creative districts, though it remains to be seen if the name will stick.

See Eastside.

William Dargue 066.05.09

Google Maps - If you lose the original focus of the Google map, press function key F5 on your keyboard to refresh the screen. The map will then recentre on its original location.

For 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps of Birmingham go to British History Online - Maps.