We’ve borrowed this from Jon Bounds – verbatim: James Fitzjames Fraser West, is going to start blogging on livejournal in January, only thing is he’s been dead since 1883. James was a surgeon at Queen’s Hospital (later the Accident Hospital, and now a ...
read moreThis weekend voting comes to an end on the rather low key campaign to hand £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund to one of four projects. Amongst the finalist is the Black Country Urban Park which plans to turn the Black ...
read moreYou may have spotted on our website a little badge which says shop here to support the Birmingham Conservation Trust. If you use this link to do your shopping between now and January 31st 2008 we could win £1000. Whether we ...
read moreThe Buildings of Birmingham – Ben Waddington’s guided tours of Brum, are still going stong, he promises to may you say” “They haven’t knocked it all down!”. Here’s the blurb… Join your tour guide Ben Waddington on a fascinating journey through Birmingham’s history, looking ...
read moreThe Minister for the West Midlands, Liam Byrne has summarised the plan, as it currently stands, for Eastside. (Download his short briefing here). It appears that the old Parcel Force site next to the Grade 1 Curzon Street Station is to be ...
read moreThis image is one of a number taken by Brett Wilde. You can find more of his photos of Birmingham’s buildings here.
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Salesman's Bag - photo copyright Nick Booth Most of the 70,000 artefacts have now been catalogued and removed from Newman’s in preparation for buildings work. Some remain, including this samples bag.
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Curzon Street Cat Anne Levitt – a trustee – and the old cat found under the floorboards at Curzon Street Station. Picture from here.
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We’ve already had a number of people contacting us to book their places on the two tours the trust is running. We’re opening Newman Brothers, which is emptying fast as volunteers and a team of professionals catalogue and store the contents, and ...
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English Heritage is urging us all to vote for Stonehenge in a global competition to define the new 7 Wonders of the World. The pyramids have been put through automatically, leaving 21 contenders including the Stature of Liberty and Sydney Opera ...
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