Newhall Street is a street

Street

A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...

 located in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England

England

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.

Newhall Street stretches from Colmore Row

Colmore Row

Colmore Row is a street in the centre of Birmingham, England, running from Victoria Square to just beyond Snow Hill station. It is traditionally the city's most prestigious business address....

 in the city centre by St Phillip's Cathedral

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip is the Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. Built as a parish church and consecrated in 1715, St Philip's became the cathedral of the newly formed Diocese of Birmingham in the West Midlands in 1905...

 in a north-westerly direction towards the Jewellery Quarter

Jewellery Quarter

The Jewellery Quarter is an area of Birmingham City Centre, England, situated in the south of the Hockley area. It is covered by the Ladywood district. There is a population of around 3,000 people in a area....

. Originally the road was the driveway to New Hall occupied by the Colmore family. New Hall was demolished in 1787 after being vacated by the Colmores and used as a warehouse by Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton, FRS was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the...

. Newhall Street was so named in 1766, after opening as a public street in 1746 called Newport Street and then New Hall Walk. The streets on the estate were named after the children of the family.

A number of telephone exchanges have existed on the street: the 1896 Bell Edison Telephone building, Telephone House (still an exchange), the Cold War

Cold War

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 Anchor Exchange

Anchor Exchange

Anchor Exchange was an underground, hardened telephone exchange built in Birmingham, England in the 1950s. It is located nominally on Newhall St....

 underneath it, and Brindley House (now renovated into an apartment block).

Notable buildings

Newhall Street lies in the Jewellery Quarter and Colmore Row and Environs Conservation Area

Conservation area

A conservation areas is a tract of land that has been awarded protected status in order to ensure that natural features, cultural heritage or biota are safeguarded...

s and has many listed buildings.

• 17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham
  17 & 19 Newhall Street, Birmingham
  17 & 19 Newhall Street is a red brick and Architectural terracotta Grade I listed building on the corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street in the city centre of Birmingham, England.- Overview :...
  
   popularly known as the Bell Edison Telephone Building. This building is on the corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street
  Edmund Street
  __notoc__Edmund Street is a street located in Birmingham, England.Edmund Street is one of a series of roads on the old Colmore Estate which originally stretched from Temple Row in the city centre, around St Phillip's Cathedral, to the northern end of Newhall Street. Originally the estate surrounded...
  
  
• Birmingham Assay Office
  Birmingham Assay Office
  The Birmingham Assay Office is one of the four remaining assay offices in the United Kingdom.The development of a silver industry in 18th century Birmingham was hampered by the legal requirement that items of solid silver be assayed, and the nearest Assay Offices were in Chester and London...
  
  
• Part of Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies
  Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies
  University College Birmingham, is a university college in Birmingham, England. It is an affiliated university college of the University of Birmingham and as such all undergraduate and postgraduate degrees studied at University College Birmingham are awarded by the University of Birmingham.The...
  
  
• The old Science Museum
  Science Museum, Birmingham
  The now defunct Birmingham Science Museum, or Museum of Science and Industry, previously the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works, is a building on Newhall Street in Birmingham, England....
  
  , formerly the Elkington Silver Electroplating Works
  George Elkington
  George Richards Elkington was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first commercial electroplating process.Elkington was born in Birmingham, the son of a spectacle manufacturer...
  
  , where blue plaque
  Blue plaque
  A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event, serving as a historical marker....
  
  s commemorate George Elkington and also Alexander Parkes
  Alexander Parkes
  Alexander Parkes was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England. He created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic.-Biography:...
  
  , inventor of the first plastic
• The Queens Arms public house http://www.queensarmsbar.co.uk has more photographs
• Numbers 17 & 19, 27 & 29, 43-51, 44,46 & 48, 50 & 52, 54, 56, 58 & 60, 61, 144, 199, 204 & 206, the Assay Office, and the Queens Arms Public House are listed buildings.
• Lock number 9 of the Farmer's Bridge flight of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
  Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
  The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal is a canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in the West Midlands of England. Its purpose was to provide a link between the Coventry Canal and Birmingham and thereby connect Birmingham to London via the Oxford Canal....
  
  runs under Newhall Street, with a lock gate on either side of the bridge.

Sources

• Ordnance Survey 1st Edition Map, 1890
• Birmingham City Council - Conservation Areas (Colmore Row and Environs, Jewellery Quarter)