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In the mid-nineteenth century, Hurst Street was the centre of
Birmingham's Jewish community, with most Jewish immigrants to Birmingham living in slums around Hurst Street. The Hebrew National School was replaced by a new building on Hurst Street in 1843. Courses for 85 boys included Hebrew and Hebrew
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Unitarian Association for the Midland Counties (later the Birmingham Unitarian Domestic Mission Society) built a chapel known as the Hurst Street Domestic Mission on Hurst Street in 1844. It had schoolrooms beneath the chapel, and additional schoolrooms behind the chapel were added later. Its
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large central room became known as the People's Hall, where free lectures were held. The school's efforts to educate the city's poorest children were praised by the
Inspector of Schools in the 1850s.
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moved into the area around Hurst Street in the decades following World War II, and by the 1980s the area was recognized as the city's
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