Ian Allan Book And Model Shop

This is a historians dream, stocked wall-​to-​wall with books and models from every conceivable period in history.
That’s not to suggest Ian Allan’s is stuck in the past, despite its reassuringly retro feel, this place moves with the times, giving prominence to the hottest history at a given moment in time. For instance, Titanic is pretty big in there at the moment. This place gives you total history though. You can not only read an account of the history of the tank on the battle fields, you can also get your history hands dirty and make a model to back things up.
This is the place to bring a kid who’s just developing historical interests of their own. Talking of kids, my husband drools longingly over the Apollo missions models in the window whenever we walk past this place, but isn’t allowed one!
Maybe if he’s good… how far away is Christmas?

My father would just love this place and I believe good part of boys probably do! I
Ian Allan Book and Model Shop is a business for transport enthusiasts and as there are only four shops of this fine publisher in UK, Birmingham is certainly privileged to be in the route of the transporter spotters.
Their range of books, magazines and models include publications about trains, buses, ships, lorries and all kind of transport you came across.
Even this shop is placed right in the city centre, next to one of the entrances of Birmingham New Street station and other businesses in the area, this bookshop seems to be a bit hidden from the eyes of people who pass by in this area weekly.
Even if this shop has its certainly public, you should visit it once to find out that they have really interesting maps and books that can be very useful for the next trip in this country and if you are also interested in History, There are fine publications about Medieval, World Wars and 17^th to 20^th centuries in this place.