The front of the Town Hall facing Paradise Street

Paradise is a fairly common field and farm name. The word came into Middle English from the Greek translation of the Bible (Book of Genesis) where it is used of the Garden of Eden. It had a variety of related meanings from 'enclosure' to 'park' to 'garden' and was used for such until the 18th century.

City Centre

Paradise Close was a field south of Paradise Street near Birmingham Town Hall, which may have been associated with the Easy Hill estate. It was Paradise Row by 1785; Paradise Street by 1792; Paradise Circus Queensway with the building of the Inner Ring Road opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1971.

Paradise Lane 1940. Image, now free of copyright, downloaded from the late Peter Gamble's Virtual Brum website. See Acknowledgements for a direct link to this site.

Hall Green

Paradise Lane in Hall Green takes its name from Paradise Farm which was probably medieval in origin. It was rebuilt in Georgian times and demolished for house building c1960.