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The view from the Discovery Terrace Gardens on the top of the Library of Birmingham. In Centenary Square, Westside, Birmingham, West Midlands.

Birmingham City Council investigated relocating the library for many years. The original plan was to build a new library in the emerging Eastside district. A library was designed by Richard Rogers on a site in the area. However, for financial reasons and reservations about the location this plan was shelved.

In 2006, the Council confirmed the area between the Rep Theatre and Baskerville House as the future site for the library. Capita Symonds had been appointed as Project Managers for the Library of Birmingham.

The library has several nationally and internationally significant collections, including the Boulton and Watt archives, the Bournville Village Trust Archive, the Charles Parker Archive, the Parker collection of children's books, the Sir Benjamin Stone photographic collection, the Wingate Bett transport ticket collection, the Warwickshire photographic survey, the British Institute of Organ Studies archive and the Railway and Canal Historical Society Library.

The specialist Shakespeare Memorial Room was designed in 1882 by John Henry Chamberlain for the first Central Library. When that was demolished Chamberlain's room was dismantled and re-fitted into the new concrete shell of the new library complex. When the Library of Birmingham was built, it was again moved to the top floor. It houses Britain’s most important Shakespeare collection.

The Boulton and Watt Collection is the archive of the steam engine partnership of Matthew Boulton and James Watt, dating from its formation in 1774 until the firm's closure in the 1890s. The archive comprises about 550 volumes of letters, books, order books and account books, approximately 29,000 engine drawings and upwards of 20,000 letters received from customers.

Boulton and Watt manufactured the screw engines for Brunel's SS Great Eastern and the archive includes a portfolio of 13 albumen prints by Robert Howlett documenting the construction of the Great Eastern, including a rare variant of the Brunel portrait of 1857.

Information Sources:
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