Centenary Square is a public square on the north side of
Broad Street in
Birmingham,
England, named in 1989 to commemorate the centenary of Birmingham achieving
city status. The area was an industrial area of small workshops and canal wharves before it was purchased by the council in the 1920s for the creation of a grand civic centre scheme to include museums, council offices, cathedral and opera house. The scheme was abandoned after the arrival of
World War II with only the
Hall of Memory and half of the planned
Baskerville House complete. After the war the scheme was revived in a simpler form however the council never managed to implement the design.