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Creative quarter
Custard Factory
Workspace complex with independent shops, cafés and bars on the site of the Bird's Custard works.
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Digbeth & Eastside: things to do
Places worth your time in Digbeth & Eastside
Top places
Things to do in Digbeth & Eastside
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Museum
Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Science museum in Millennium Point with hands-on galleries and a planetarium, run by Birmingham Museums Trust.
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Park
Eastside City Park
Park of 6.75 acres in front of Millennium Point, opened in 2012, with a long canal water feature.
Historic building
Curzon Street station building
Grade I listed building of an early Birmingham railway terminus, in railway use until 1966.
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Railway station
Birmingham Moor Street station
One of the city's three main stations, next to the Bullring, with trains to London Marylebone.
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Music venue
Digbeth Institute
Music venue in a building opened in 1908 as a mission of Carrs Lane Congregational Church.
Cinema
Mockingbird Cinema & Kitchen
Independent cinema with a kitchen, at the Custard Factory.
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Mosaic
J. F. Kennedy Memorial
Mosaic mural memorial to John F. Kennedy by Kenneth Budd.
Conservation area
Warwick Bar
Conservation area of canalside factories and warehouses from the Industrial Revolution.
Art gallery
Eastside Projects
Free artist-run space showing experimental contemporary art.
Church
St Michael's Catholic Church
Grade II listed Catholic church on Moor Street, once the New Meeting chapel of English Dissenters.
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Church
St Anne's Church
Catholic parish church founded by John Henry Newman in 1849; the present building on Alcester Street dates from 1884.
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City Centre & Bullring
Victorian civic squares, two cathedrals and the Bullring around New Street station
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Jewellery Quarter
Workshops, small museums and a Georgian square in a working jewellery district
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Brindleyplace & the Canals
Gas Street Basin, Centenary Square and the concert halls and canalside squares of Westside
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- Digbeth & Eastside (area photo): Brianboru100, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Custard Factory: Oosoom at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum: Amandachan1106, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eastside City Park: Stove1441, CC BY 3.0, source
- Curzon Street station building: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0, source
- Birmingham Moor Street station: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Digbeth Institute: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, source
- J. F. Kennedy Memorial: Brianboru100, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Warwick Bar: Original uploader was Oosoom at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eastside Projects: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Michael's Catholic Church: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, source
- St Anne's Church: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, source
- City Centre & Bullring: Mutney, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jewellery Quarter: Brian Clift, CC BY 2.0, source
- Brindleyplace & the Canals: Oosoom at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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