We began our journey at St Chads Basilica (formally Cathedral), then onto Lloyd House Police HQ (formally Stewards & Lloyds Steel manufacturer HQ) and across the road was the Gaumont Cinema which screened 168 performances over 3 years 3 months of the 'Sound of Music' - 2 million people saw it there, before the cinema closed in 1980. Also in that area was the only public hanging in Birmingham carried out in 1806.
We then went and paid our respects at the headstone in St Philips Cathedral (formally a Church) commemorating the killing of 21 people in the 1974 pub bombings, then looked inside the building. Across Colmore Row we went into the £30million refurbished Grand Hotel.