Spring Hill Library (Birmingham)

United Kingdom / England / Birmingham / A457 Spring Hill
 library, Grade II* Listed (UK)

Spring Hill Library is a red brick and terracotta Victorian building in Ladywood, Birmingham, England.

Designed in 1891 by Frederick Martin[1] of Martin & Chamberlain 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 Street.

Still in use as a Birmingham branch library, is a grade II* listed building.

It was the subject of a bus crash in the 1950s when the bus flipped on to its' side scraping all down the side of the building with the marks still vaguely visible.

Spring Hill Library, Spring Hill, Birmingham, B18 7BH
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Coordinates:   52°29'6"N   1°55'9"W
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