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By train/bus: From New Street Station in Birmingham's City Centre. Then you've got the option of taking a bus and walking 1 minute, or taking a train just one stop and walking about 15 minutes. Or you could even walk all the way from New Street Station, but it's about 1½ to 2 miles. The bus, is the number 66. As you come through the barriers of New Street Station turn to your left. Go through the glass doors; a bit further cross over towards Debenhams, turn right down Smallbrook Queensway, and you will eventually find the No. 66 bus stop a bit before the roundabout with the Chinese Pagoda on it. http://www.travelwm.co.uk/ The stop you want is the first stop on Icknield Port Road. Look out for Ladywood Middleway (a different stretch to the one you'd have driven along), which is a dual carriageway mostly downhill and as it sort of starts to level out there's a small police station on your left. Then you come to a roundabout with a church on the left of the exit taken (you basically go straight over), which is Icknield Port Road (which technically starts out as Wood Street). This is your stop. Cross the road and walk down Monument Road - the first right off Icknield Port Road, and you'll enter a car park with a big, colourful mural. Walking from Five Ways train station When you come out of Five Ways station go uphill along Lee Bank Middleway, which changes into Islington Row, towards Five Ways roundabout. Go across the roundabout (via subway) so you end up going down Ladywood Middleway, which has a Tesco on the right. Not far is the Broadway Plaza on your left. Further on on your left is a small police station. Go straight across at the roundabout, entering Icknield Port Road (church on the left). The first on the right (Monument Road) before the fire station leads into the car park of the Centre, which is the one with the mural. By car: From the M6 (Southbound) The most direct route is to leave the M6 at Junction 6, which is actually part of Spaghetti Junction. Take the slip road that leads onto A38 (M) towards the city centre, heading sort of south-west. The A38 (M) is a short stretch of contraflow motorway that lasts for roughly 2 miles. After about 1 mile don't take the slip road leading to (Park Circus) roundabout, signposted "Aston Waterlinks, Birchfield Perry Barr". At the end of the 2nd mile(ish) keep left to take the 2nd slip road that leads to a large roundabout (Dartmouth Circus) signposted as "Ring Road". Take the 3rd exit onto the A4540 (not signposted). The road you've just turned into is Newtown Middleway, which soon changes into New John Street West. Go past 2 sets of traffic lights. At the next roundabout go straight on (2nd exit) - this is still the A4540. You go under a fly-over and come to a 2nd roundabout with a Jet petrol station on the left. Go straight on, which is A4540 "Icknield Street". Avoid the left lane after the lights otherwise you'll be forced to filter left. At the next roundabout go straight on (2nd exit) - still the A4540 but now called Ladywood Middleway. This is all dual carriageway. As you get close to 4th and final roundabout you'll see a large and colourful mural to your right. This is the side of the building that you are heading for. At the roundabout itself you need to take the 3rd and last exit. This is Icknield Port Road (which technically starts out as Wood Street). There's a church on your left as you take the exit. IMMEDIATELY SIGNAL RIGHT - the turning is just before the keep left signs in the road. So, turn right into Monument Road. You will end up in the car park of the Centre itself, with the large and colourful mural. If you go past the fire station (on your right) you've gone too far. From the M5 Leave the M5 at Junction 3, taking the A456 North (3rd exit). Technically, the A456 here is the Quinton Expressway. After about a mile it bends right under a fly-over, and becomes "West Hagley Road". You swerve right down a hill and come to a small-ish roundabout with a petrol station on the right. Go straight on up the hill. At the 2nd main set of lights, after roughly 2 miles from that roundabout, you may notice the "Midland Wheel Club" on the corner on your right. A bit further on your left is the Rainbow Casino. Very soon you'll see a row of various shops on your left and then lights at a crossroads. The Ivy Bush pub is on the left corner. Turn left down Monument Road (B4214). (Just to confuse you, this road has the same name as another one that you'll be turning into soon). Towards the end of this road it bends to the right (Alston Street) and you'll come to a roundabout. At the roundabout take the first left (Icknield Port Road (which technically starts out as Wood Street)) with the church on your left, and IMMEDIATELY SIGNAL RIGHT - the turning is just before the keep left signs in the road. Turn right down this Monument Road. You will end up in the car park of the Centre itself, with the large and colourful mural. If you go past the fire station (on your right) you've gone too far. |
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