HOW BIRMINGHAM LOST ITS CROWN JEWEL
FROM THE QUEEN TO BLACKSTONE
By Mike Olley, Former ICC Committee Member
Thirty years ago, Her Majesty the Queen opened Birmingham’s International Convention Centre. Three decades on, the civic pride it symbolised has been quietly sold — and resold — at great public cost.
On 12 June 1991, Queen Elizabeth II came to Birmingham to open the International Convention Centre (ICC) in a mome…
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