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Corporation Street maroon plaque

Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Corporation Street maroon plaque

The magnificent buildings of Corporation Street were designed to evoke a Parisian boulevard in the heart of Birmingham. The elegant red-brick buildings are the perfect backdrop to one of the city's most impressive shopping streets. Championed by Mayor Joseph Chamberlain, Corporation Street enhanced

Birmingham's status as England's second city. When designed in the nineteenth century, Corporation Street was one of the grandest streets in the country, and still is today. Corporation Street was fea

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