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with a 65-foot (20 m) clock tower on the corner of Icknield Street and Spring Hill and opened on 7 January 1893, it now stands next to a roundabout and linked via a glazed atrium to a new (2010) Tesco superstore. The site was previously the location for the turnpike gate house for Icknield
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Pictures of Spring Hill Library in context with neighbouring buildings:
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This article about a West Midlands building or structure is a
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The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society
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Gothic Revival architecture in the West Midlands (county)
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Spring Hill Architecture – article by Joe Holyoak 1974
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Birmingham Libraries – History of Spring Hill Library
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Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, it is a
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Library
Ladywood
Birmingham
England
Coordinates
52°29′6.16″N 1°55′10.14″W / 52.4850444°N 1.9194833°W / 52.4850444; -1.9194833
Martin & Chamberlain
Grade II* listed
grid reference
SP055874
red brick and terracotta
Victorian
Ladywood
Birmingham
England
Martin & Chamberlain
Grade II* listed building

Arms of Birmingham
The ceiling, with curved iron girders concealed (unusual for Martin & Chamberlain)
Martin & Chamberlain
ISBN
0-7509-3857-9
John Young Walker MacAlister
Alfred William Pollard
Historic England
"Spring Hill Public Library (Grade II*) (1076161)"
National Heritage List for England
Historic England

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