Heritage Open Days in Birmingham click for original podnosh flickr image We’ve just received this form the Heritage Alliance: New future for HODs with The Heritage Alliance, Civic Voice and the National Trust We are delighted to announce that The Heritage Alliance ...
read moreIt’s Adult Learners’ Week in Birmingham – all week! Take advantage of this FREE opportunity to find out how to trace your family tree. See below for details. Enjoy the research! Are You Interested in Tracing Your Family History? Come along to a FREE ...
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I love old buildings and the way in which they make me feel as if I am connecting with the past. And I am fascinated with why old buildings look like they do and the questions they pose. Why was one style ...
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Stop The Clocks Putting the hearse into rehearsals – a team of Birmingham University drama students and their directors – are beginning an exciting venture at the Coffin Fittings Works. Birmingham Conservation Trust welcomes Tin Box theatre company who have been busily devising their ...
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The Handsworth Heritage Trail was introduced last month and showcases the historic buildings across Handsworth and provides an ideal opportunity to promote Handsworth to local people as well as attracting new visitors to the area. The heritage trail emerged when Tracey Thorne (Handsworth ...
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Join the Birmingham Ghost Walk - dare to be scared! Uncover the ghosts of years gone by joining one of the Birmingham Ghost Walk s – now extended to include the Coffin Fittings Works on Fleet Street.We can’t promise you’ll see any ghosts, but you will ...
read moreEnglish Heritage has launched a project to find out how much of the country’s industrial heritage is at risk of neglect, decay or even demolition, and to raise the debate about what needs saving and how. In October this year it will ...
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The corner shop is something that everyone has a memory of and is familiar with; it has been a British institution for over two hundred years and still plays an important role at the heart of Britain’s communities today. A new website (www.thecornershopproject.co.uk) ...
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Staffordshire Hoard Gold dagger hilt - image from Portable Antiquities on flickr. We’ve taken this from the Birmingham News Room site: A new tour offering a behind the scenes look at the Staffordshire Hoard conservation work at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ...
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Key Hill Cemetery by Nicobinus on flickr – click image for original We’ve received this from the Friends of Key Hill Cemetery: A cash windfall will help reverse the devastation caused to an historic Birmingham landmark by “health and safety madness”. The Friends of Key Hill ...
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