William Dargue  A History of BIRMINGHAM Places & Placenames from A to Y

Lower Eastside

B5/ B12 - Grid reference SP082862

First record: c2006

 

 

 

A name coined in the early 21st century for 'Media Quarter' around The Custard Factory in Deritend/ Digbeth; Lower East Side is one of New York's artistically creative districts. It remains to be seen whether the name will last.

 

 

See Eastside.

 

 

 

 

The Custard Factory photographed by Steve Cadman and used from Flickr under Creative Commons Licence Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic. 

William Dargue 04.04.2009

 

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For 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps of Birmingham go to British History Online.

See http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55193&sheetid=10098&ox=3331&oy=2256&zm=1&czm=1&x=448&y=358.