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Article: Weekend: Archive: Trip down memory lane; Chris Upton looks at 200 years of development up and down Birmingham's famous Broad Street.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2002
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Byline: Chris Upton
'T he road to Halesowen,' wrote William Hutton, 'like the life of man, is chequered with good and evil, chiefly the latter.' Hutton's grumpy stroll along Broad Street took place more than 200 hundred years ago, but it's not hard to imagine him allocating the same description to its constituent parts even today. Of a conference centre and concert hall he would certainly have approved, and public houses he found appealing when his feet ached and his throat was dry.
Of Broad Street's more 'contemporary' pleasures he would not have been so ...