A thousand trades, a thousand tales

Though much has changed over the centuries, echoes of Britain's Industrial Era still linger in modern-day Birmingham, Sindy Chan discovers.

The evening curtain slowly draws shut. We are staying cool up on the 18th floor of the Rotunda, a circular, 83-meter-tall tower built in 1965 as an office building, but it has since been renovated to make luxury apartments.

As the apartment light dims, French windows are amazingly transformed into stained glass. Reflections of modern interior decor blend harmoniously with external city lights stretching as far back as the indigo horizon. Down below, pedestrians navigate their way through the city's street past a bronze statue of a bull, which calls to mind the old time Bull Ring market that was once here in medieval times.