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The Swan Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Yardley, Birmingham, which opened in Spring 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 2011-08-16 )〕 With its landmark high rise building, it stands on the A45 Coventry Road at its intersection with the A4040 Outer Ring Road (also the Birmingham Outer Circle Number 11 bus route), known as Swan Island. == History == It consists of a predominantly 1960s structure after the previous shopping centre was burned down. The previous shopping centre stood on the site of the Tivoli Cinema and Hardings Bakery. The Swan pub was on the opposite side of the Swan Island where the Swan office block is now. The Swan Inn was situated in a location in which it received a successful trade as many coaches and trade wagons passed it as they travelled from the southeast of the country into Birmingham. In 1731, Nicholas Rothwell of Warwick established a coach business which transported people from the inn to London via Warwick, Aylesbury and Banbury. At present, numerous coach companies use the shopping centre as a stop. The Swan Inn also became a popular venue for public displays including James Brindley, who outlined the results of a survey he had undertaken for the cutting of a navigable canal between Birmingham and the Black Country coalfields. The Swan was the terminus for trams serving Birmingham and new shops were built about 1938. One of the landmarks at this time was the local bakery (Hardings) which was situated at the corner junction of Coventry Road and Church Road. The present centre was also the location of a local cinema, ''The Tivoli''. The current shopping centre was constructed with Bakeman House, a block of flats, which currently houses mainly elderly tenants. The tower block has been refurbished by Birmingham City Council at a cost of £3 million. Works included repainting the exterior, installing double glazed windows and the addition of a new lighting feature around the parapet. The works took up to nine months were completed in December 2008 by Wates. The majority of the building is of a concrete exterior, however, the entrance block at the multi-storey car park is clad in corrugated steel painted a dark orange. The shopping centre itself was located underneath the tower block. When opened, it was a Gateway Supermarket and became an In Shop market up until August 2007. The shopping centre formerly had over 80 shops and businesses, however all had gone by February 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swan Shopping Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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