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From Canals and Victorians to Today's City: Birmingham Walking Tour

Name: From Canals and Victorians to Today's City: Birmingham Walking Tour
Brand: Positively Birmingham Walking Tours
SKU: 101902P3
Price: 19.06 USD
Rating: 5.0 (297 reviews)

Badge of ExcellenceBirmingham, England

2 hours
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Appreciating Birmingham’s unique architectural heritage can be tricky on a self-led excursion. Explore Birmingham’s canals and landmarks on a walking tour, and discover the Georgian, Victorian, and modern influences on the cityscape. Gain intimate insight into Brindleyplace, Broad Street, and beyond as you explore with your live guide or audio guide, and gain a comprehensive overview of the history and heritage of the English industrial city.

Enjoy a comprehensive introduction to England’s second city
Explore with a guide for intimate insight into Birmingham’s heritage
Be immersed in the city’s ambiance as you explore by foot
Discover landmarks including Gas Street Basin and the ICC

What's Included

We use a live audio system. Each guest is loaned a receiver to hear the guide who wears a radio transmitter. Guest bring their own earphones with a 3.5mm socket or we provide a new pair.

This tour may use an audio system - but not always.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Library of Birmingham
Centenary Sq, Birmingham B1 2ND, UK
We start and end at the main entrance of the Library of Birmingham in Centenary Square, B1 2EA

Start time

01:30 PM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Library of Birmingham

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

International Convention Centre Birmingham

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Brindleyplace

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Gas Street Basin

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Victoria Square

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Chamberlain Square

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

2 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The Mailbox

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The Cube

1 minute • Admission Ticket Included

Ikon Gallery (Pass By)

Hall of Memory

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

ICC Mall

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Birmingham Town Hall

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Wheelchair accessible
Our route can be accessible for wheelchairs but we do need to modify the route and would appreciate an email from you if you intend to bring a wheelchair. Our Access Policy is clearly stated on the Positively Birmingham Walking Tours website.
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed

Near public transportation
Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 35 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

Traveler Photos

Featured review

Giorgia_W

Michael was really great - very friendly and knowledgeable about Birmihgham, just what we needed. Lots of great sites to see, would recommend.

Reviews

5.0

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Definitely worth the tour of Birmingham

Amanda_B, May 2024

Michael our guide was amazing. So knowledgeable. Really enjoyed the walking tour. So lovely to learn about the history of Birmingham

Response from Host, May 2024

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, Michael has a huge knowledge of the city and also a great sense of humour. Do come again on tour with us next time you are in the city, We have 6 tours of the city at present - see them on our Positively Birmingham website.

Really recommend

Giorgia_W, Nov 2023

Michael was really great - very friendly and knowledgeable about Birmihgham, just what we needed. Lots of great sites to see, would recommend.

Response from Host, Nov 2023

Thanks. Michael is great to have in the team. He spent his working life explaining Birmingham to students at Birmingham City Uni and we are fortunate he takes on some of our Saturday tours.

Informative small tour.

JAYNIE_H, Oct 2023

Really good friendly insight into Birmingham by Jonathan. Just about right with interesting fact about the city.

Entertaining and informative

Rebecca_W, Sep 2023

Jonathan was an excellent guide, very informative and entertaining. A thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours. We’ve visited Birmingham many times but on this tour we learned so much about its history. Highly recommend

Good Tour!

Patricia_G, Aug 2023

This was a well informed tour a good walk, beautiful sites and tour guide very friendly and informative.

Response from Host, Aug 2023

Thanks - that is very kind of you. Do come again when you are next in Birmingham. See all our tours on the Positively Birmingham walking tour website.

Crash course in Brum

Scott_S, Jul 2023

Jonathan was a very knowledgeable host. It was like being on a real life tony robbins history documentary. Dad jokes and all! Recommend this and the Jewellery Quarter tour.

Response from Host, Aug 2023

Hi - thanks so much. Yes, we have fun exploring this place and having run Positively Birmingham Walking Tours pretty much every weekend since July 2016. Our key aims are to inform in a fun and friendly way - even including some Dad jokes> Glad you enjoyed the Sunday tour as well - different to the Saturday tours and with a lot of surprises on the way.

Enjoyable walk!

Nicole_H, Jul 2023

Our guide Michael really brought the history to life, it was fun and informative. We enjoyed walking around the city

Fantastic city

Alessandro_L, Mar 2023

A sightseeing tour de so of history, the guide is attentive and willing to answer any questions, after the usual tour I asked to see the city's famous Graphites and the guide finished the tour and took me into the jungle of Birmingham, full of spectacular Graphites.

An exciting experience!

Yasmine_F, Nov 2022

Our tour guide Jonathon was so welcoming and made us feel at home. He was well informed and made the tour very interesting.The listed buildings and the concrete pieces of Art on the walls we were showed made me realise how important it is restore old buildings and pieces of Art which makes Birmingham so interesting amongst the modern buildings and roads that are being built

Great way to learn about Birmingham

David_K, Jul 2022

Had a great time very informative and learned a lot about Birmingham, the earphones are great so you can hear the guide and not have to be too close, i would recommend.

Fun interesting & informative

Claire_D, Jul 2022

An interesting informative day discovering a little of the history of Birmingham & viewing a little of that which was left from previous times. Friendly knowledgable guide.

Jonathan was great!

annamassad, Apr 2022

We had our tour with Jonathan, and he was INCREDIBLE! He was fun, energetic, has a fantastic knowledge about the city and most importantly he made everything very interesting saying here and there fun facts about the city, not only historical facts but current ones that the city it's been through! Good luck with you book Jonathan!

Great fun

Nicola_L, Apr 2022

Jonathan was very engaging and shared lots of interesting details on the area. We would thoroughly recommend his tours, and they benefit the homeless people of Birmingham.

Not to be missed tour of Birmingham

Gene_S, Apr 2022

Fabulous tour with Jonathan Berg. He is not only super knowledgeable but high energy. Get ready for a fun tour with fast talking and fast walking Jonathan

Very good tour

Andrea_S, Feb 2022

Our guide, Jonathan, was knowledgeable but still entertaining. He kept time well. With his comments and visuals he brought the city of Birmingham close to us. We enjoyed every minute of the tour.

Response from Host, Feb 2022

HI - Thanks for taking the time to feedback to us - viatl as we ensure we offer great fun tours of the city through the important year of 2022 in Birmingham. Do come again soon on one of other tours - the Sunday tour; 'Discovering Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter' restarts on March 6th and is full of surprises.

We thoroughly enjoyed all...

Sue_H, Dec 2021

We thoroughly enjoyed all of it, Jonathan was excellent, making the whole tour very enjoyable. Good value, even the horrendous weather did not spoil the tour, Jonathan kept us as dry as he possibly could.

Fantastic

Sheefa_D, Oct 2021

The whole walking tour was fantastic. Really interesting hearing about the history of Birmingham. Best bit was the cathedral.

Walking

Stefan_B, Sep 2021

Very nice tour. Very infotaining. Great guide. The guide had a good micro so it was always easy to unterstand.

Great tour

Adesina_O, Jul 2021

Great fun, really interesting, lots info given, guide was very charismatic and knowledgeable, adding to the experience

ナイス

MASAO_F, Mar 2020

私たちが日本人であることに気を使ってもらった。ゆっくりとはっきりとした英語で解説してもらった。少人数（6人）のツアーだったこともあり親切に丁寧に案内してもらい楽しい2時間が過ごせた。歩くスピードも速すぎず遅すぎず適度で心地よかった。