Broad Street, Birmingham

However, in the following years, Easy Hill began to develop with the construction of a house by John Baskerville, a local printer and type-face designer.

However, one prescient early manifestation of the street's future purpose as a fashionable partying district was the Rum Runner nightclub, which from the late 1970s restyled itself after New York City's Studio 54 and later London's Blitz club.

The Broad Street area is home to numerous bars and restaurants, the Brindleyplace development and cultural attractions such as the Ikon Gallery.

There is long standing concern over traffic congestion in the evenings when car drivers attracted by the nightlife are cruising the area.

[6] The proposed SPRINT bus rapid transit route between Birmingham and Quinton would also serve Broad Street.

[7] At its northern end is: A 'Walk of Stars', similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, runs along the pavement on Broad Street.

[8] Since then comedian Jasper Carrott, glam rocker Noddy Holder, motor racing commentator Murray Walker, the cast and crew of BBC Radio 4's The Archers, long serving Archers cast member Norman Painting and founding member of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi have all been honoured on the street with a star.