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This page gives the return route from the exhibition to the bus stop towards Birmingham city centre and thence to rail stations. The route to the Apollo Hotel is also included.
Leave the Clarendon Suites via the main entrance and turn left. Cross the gap to a blank recess and follow the wall for about ten metres before turning right across the forecourt. You're aiming for the pedestrian gate onto Clarendon Road; this is to your left (south) of the vehicle entrance.
Go through the gate (or vehicle entrance), turn left, follow the wall to your left and continue to the junction with Hagley Road then turn right to cross.
You're at a K-junction from which Hagley road runs east/west, Clarendon road north and Portland Road northwest. This is a traffic light controlled junction with no pedestrian control. You need to be careful, as it may be difficult to distinguish the direction in which traffic is flowing owing to the acute angle between Hagley and Portland roads.
Cross the junction and continue (west) along the right-hand side of Hagley Road. After a while, you'll find a narrow strip of tactile paving before a bus shelter on your left. This is the stop for buses towards the city centre.
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On Foot to the Apollo Hotel By Bus to the City Centre and Rail Stations |
As you continue (west) along Hagley Road you pass the following features on your right:
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wall entrance to Thistle Hotel wall lamp post, in hedge wall gap wall with overhanging coping stones gap wall with overhanging coping stones gap lamp post wall double entrance wall lamp post hedge, no wall metal box post in middle of gap to Ask and Dolland & Aitchinson Holly bush above wall Lamp post just east of the gap to the Apollo Conference Centre lamp post, a few metres west of the first entry to the Apollo Hotel, which is a gap in the low wall |
turn right into the first entry to the Apollo and continue forwards across the front car park. You're aiming for the archway into the forecourt, having gone under this arch, cross the forecourt, turn right and locate the main entrance to Reception on your left.
Details of the forecourt to the Apollo Hotel lie beyond the scope of this survey.
We took the 139 for our outward and 19 for our return journey, though we understand that other buses follow the same route from here. You want the Colmore Row bus station, outside the Cathedral.
Get off the bus and turn left, continue to the tactile paving denoting the road crossing. You're opposite Snow Hill station.
For New Street, turn right into the Great Western Arcade, cross Temple Row and continue through the remainder of the arcade into Corporation Street.
Turn right, pass House of Fraser, cross Cherry Street and continue down the slope till you find the tactile paving indicating the crossing to your left. As you face across Corporation Street, the post with push button is to your right. This crossing has a sounder indicating when it is safe to cross this road.
Cross Corporation Street, turn right and follow the tactile paving to the crossing of New Street to your left. As you face across New Street, the post with push button is to your right and the same sounder indicates when it is safe to cross.
Cross New Street and continue down then up the slope into the Palisades shopping centre. As you move through this shopping centre you turn slightly left then right before continuing till you find the steps and escalators to New Street station to your right.
Describe Online has published a text guide to New Street station
© 2008, Terry Robinson