Building sights in The Midlands

1. A Map

   Birmingham Town Hall

   • Birmingham, England
   • Sights › Building

   To the south of the town centre stands the Town Hall, opened in 1834, and designed by Joseph Hansom (creator of the hansom cab, forerunner to London's black taxis) to look like the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome.

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   King Edward VI School

   • Stratford Upon Avon, England
   • Sights › Building

   Next door to the Guild Chapel is King Edward VI School, which Shakespeare probably attended; it was originally the Guildhall.

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3. Rugby School Tours

   • Warwickshire, England
   • Sights › Building

   Most tour guides are students (yours could be the next Salman Rushdie) and they'll give you a distinctly English education on the school that gave to the world the game of rugby and, by contrast, nurtured sensitive souls such as war poet Rupert Brooke and children's author Lewis Carroll. William Butterfield's Gothic Revival chapel (1875) is worth a look.

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