LIVE24SEVEN // Best Of Birmingham S POT L IGHT ON - B I RMINGHAM The Best of


We invited Jas Sansi to write the opening words for our Best of Birmingham feature; what better way to explore this exciting city than through the eyes and lens of Birmingham’s favourite photographer…


Birmingham


• Walking towards Millennium Point will reveal a lot of Street Art in this creative district. Follow the trail to Curzon Street where the original station of the Birmingham to London railway line stands. It is also where HS2 arrives in 2026.


• Head over to the Colmore Business District. This is home to a number of my favourite places in Brum. St Philip’s Cathedral stands majestically at the heart of the district; the cathedral was awarded government restoration funding to mark its 300th anniversary last year.


• Opposite on Temple Row is the stunning Old Joint Stock. Go in, look up and enjoy the glass domed roof above the bar.


The ‘top ten’ of any city will always be personal to the author drafting such a list. The sights I’ve included for any visitor to Birmingham are in no way exhaustive, they are simply the tip of a very large and interesting iceberg.


• Let us begin our journey exactly where the city of Birmingham began over 1000 years ago with the establishment of a market in Digbeth. The Old Crown at 188 High Street, Deritend dates back to 1368. It is nestled in the city’s Irish District which boasts the third largest St Patrick’s Day Parade in the world every March.


• Walk out, turn left and left again onto Colmore Row. A short stroll brings you to Victoria Square; walk into the Town Hall and ask a member of staff to show you the W Harris watercolour of the building, painted in 1831.


• Then enter the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and bound up the stairs into the Round Room. In front of you stands Lucifer by Jacob Epstein, his hands placed towards the flames of hell, his body sculpted from a male, the face, female, to introduce an element of uncertainty.


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