Historical Birmingham Maps and Prospects

Staff are working on our collections to check, document and repackage thousands of items ready for their transfer to the new building during this time. This work will be our major task and consequently we are not able to respond individually to enquiries until after September 2013.

However, if you are specifically requesting personal information held about yourself, a member of staff will contact you to discuss this further:

Email: archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk

For all other enquiries, please contact us again once we open in the new Library of Birmingham.

We regret the inconvenience this is likely to cause to our users. A new Library of Birmingham website will be launched soon. Details of the services we will be providing from September will appear in due course as well as contact details for the new Library.

Meanwhile to keep in touch with us, please follow our blog at: http://theironroom.wordpress.com/ and to follow the progress of the new library please see: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/lob

Some maps are usually kept on public display in Archives and Heritage, some are available upon request. They are all indexed, so please ask the staff or email archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk

Birmingham 1731 Westley map
Birmingham 1810
Birmingham 1841
Birmingham parishes, 1847
Birmingham centre and suburbs, 1864
Birmingham 1870/71
Birmingham and suburbs, 1909

About Birmingham's historical maps

Exciting new website for historical maps of Birmingham - www.mapseeker.co.uk

Choose a quarter section of a map. Then zoom in or choose a street from the index of street names.

Local and national maps, late 1940s onwards
The City of Birmingham - Maps
Digital Handsworth