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Oozells Street Board School

Coordinates: 52°28′39″N 1°54′45″W / 52.4776°N 1.9125°W / 52.4776; -1.9125
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The Ikon Gallery, formerly Oozells Street Board School
The tower was demolished in 1976 and restored in 1997

Oozells Street Board School was a Victorian board school in Oozells Street, off Broad Street in Birmingham, England. It is a Grade II listed building.[citation needed]

Designed in 1877 by local architects Martin & Chamberlain, responsible for over forty of the Birmingham board schools, it opened on 28 January 1878 to serve 807 primary children.[1]

The building became a college and then a furniture store for Birmingham City Council before being condemned for demolition; in 1976 the tower was demolished on safety grounds.[1]

The structure had a last-minute reprieve as the contract for demolition was being agreed and was renovated by Carillion, including the re-erection of the tower, with a steel girder frame, around 1997.[2] The work cost of £4,700,000[3] and the building reopened in 1998 as the Ikon Gallery.[1]

Since 1993 it has been surrounded by the new buildings of Brindleyplace which replaced an earlier industrial area of factories and workshops.

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Norman Bartlam (2002). Broad Street Birmingham. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-2874-3.
  2. ^ Carillion plc Archived 17 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Levitt Bernstein (architect) Archived 23 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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52°28′39″N 1°54′45″W / 52.4776°N 1.9125°W / 52.4776; -1.9125