Birmingham Airport, formerly Birmingham International Airport, is an international airport located 7 nautical miles east-southeast of Birmingham city centre, 9.5 nautical miles west-northwest of Coventry slightly north of Bickenhill village, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England.
Birmingham Airport
The airport site, as it was around 1921.
British Airways and British Caledonian aircraft at the old terminal in 1978
The Maglev rapid transport system, which operated from 1984 to 1995, was the first commercial maglev system in the world
Bickenhill is a village in the civil parish of Bickenhill and Marston Green, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the West Midlands county, England, on the eastern fringe of the West Midlands conurbation. Bickenhill is also a ward and was within the historic county of Warwickshire. Birmingham Airport is also located within the civil parish.
St Peter's Church in the village
Bickenhill Community Fire Station near the National Exhibition Centre in May 2009