Shopping Areas in Birmingham in general

Birmingham is a great day out for shopping. There are so many shops to suit everyone at Birmingham. Starting with the bullring. It is massive and like most indoor shopping centres has all your usual suspect of shops only most of them are bigger than in smaller shopping centres. The only drawback for some people is how busy it is but for me that just adds to the experience. As someone who used to live in London I miss shopping down the busy Oxford Street and this is the closest I get. There are so many fashion shops to choose from in the Bullring including Selfridges which is an experience in itself with a massive foodhall with ...  Read the complete review

Shopping-it can be a disaster which lives you overdrawn and depressed, or it can be a joyful experience which you remember with glee. Birmingham has an abundance of shops, shopping centres and retail parks, so if you like shopping you are in for a treat. If you like designer clothes and have dosh to splash, a Harvey Nicks store opened last year in the new Mailbox complex which you can find behind New Street Station. Also try the Burlington arcade and the many side streets off New Street to find small boutiques and big names like Red or Dead, Diesel and Versace. You have all of the ordinary mainstream shops as in any city such as M+S and the ...  Read the complete review

Until last week it has been nearly 20 years since I had been to Birmingham! Wow what a great difference. What has happened to Birmingham. It is great. The Bull ring shopping centre has gone but in its place a whole lot of new shops. We had the week before gone to London to do some shopping and came away nearly empty handed not finding much but in Birmingham all the shops seemed to be close together, so hardly no distance between the shops. This is not being lazy but when you buy a lot and dont want to keep popping back to the car every five minutes it does make a difference. Finding our way into and out of Birmingham was easy. It is ...  Read the complete review

A great improvement on the face of Birmingham. Anyone who entered the old Bull ring would tell you it was freezing cold, dirty, cramped and wreaked of fish! It was a horrible building which made Birmingham look quite down market. Now that the old ratty Bull ring has gone the new improved BullRing (notice the subtle difference in the spelling) built across the road has taken over in glorious style! Right now there is a huge hole in the middle of the town centre where the old one was, but still it doesn't detract from the pleasing asthetics of the new BullRing and Market as the old builings have been replaced by new, white clean modern builings and ...  Read the complete review

I spent 4 years living in Birmingham whilst I was at University, and recently returned for a weekend. The first thing I noticed about the central shopping area was how much it had changed in the 3 years since I had left. The Bullring is gone, and all that is left is a huge hole in the ground, a re-routed road system and a lot of rubble. They're building a new Bullring, and from what I've seen, it's going to be a superb shopping centre and Selfridge's will be moving in to one corner of it. They've torn down another of the shopping arcades in the centre as well - Martineau Square (apologies if I've spelled that wrong), and are ...  Read the complete review