National Exhibition Centre
The National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is an exhibition centre located in Marston Green, England, near to Birmingham and Solihull. It is near junction 6 of the M42 motorway, and is adjacent to Birmingham Airport and Birmingham International railway station. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976.
The main entrance to the NEC (July 2015)
Plaque commemorating the opening of the "second phase of development" in 1989
Preparations for an exhibition in Hall 3a
View from inside the atrium
Marston Green is a village in the civil parish of Bickenhill and Marston Green, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands. It lies within the historic county of Warwickshire. The Parish which includes the village had a population of 7432 in the 2021 Census.
The Marston Green Tavern, prior to a recent refurbishment