Birmingham borough council is the largest unitary authority in the country.
Birmingham is renowned for the number of canals that crossed the city, later followed by the railways (New Street railway station is in the centre of the city), and then the motorways, including the “Spaghetti Junction” interchange.
BirminghamCity and Aston Villa football clubs are also there as is the National Indoor Arena, which regularly stages international athletics and other sporting events, and can seat 13,000 spectators.
Birmingham was originally part of Warwickshire, however the city expanded in the late 19th and early 20th century, absorbing parts of Worcestershire to the south and Staffordshire to the west.
Birmingham suffered heavy bomb damage during World War II during the Birmingham Blitz, and partly as a result of this the city centre was extensively re-developed during the 1950s and 1960s, with many concrete office buildings, ring-roads, and now much-derided pedestrian subways.
City of BirminghamCouncilHouse, with Dhruva Mistry's sculpture, 'The River', in the foreground (commonly known as 'the floozie in the jacuzzi').
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