Moseley Road Baths Action Group, of which Birmingham Conservation Trust is a member, is another step closer to securing a future for the historic Birmingham baths. Last month, BCT director Simon Buteux chaired the interview panel which appointed the partnership of the National ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of a section of Harborne walkway, close to the former site of the demolished Hagley Road train station. Part of the footpath, which opened in 1981, follows the track-bed of the old Harborne railway line that connected Birmingham ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the entrance building to the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. The park was, until recently, known as Birmingham Nature Centre, but as it includes many exotic animals, such as Red Panda’s and Meerkats, the new name seems more ...
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If you’ve ever visited the Jewellery Quarter, you almost have certainly passed the Fattorini building located on Regent Street. Impressively, after nearly two-hundred years in business, it’s still owned by the Fattorini family. Antonio Fattorini moved to England from Italy, and set ...
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Today’s Friday photo was inspired by Historic England’s audio-tour of post war public art in Birmingham city centre, available (here). Having explored these in the city centre, I went in search of more examples and found myself on the university of Birmingham campus. They ...
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Today’s Friday photo is Needless Alley a little passage way off New Street. This little passage way is a survivor from old Birmingham that has managed to escape the urban planners! For although the buildings around it have changed over the years, the ...
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Nestled away on Albion Street in the Jewellery Quarter, you might miss this little, unassuming building. I visited The George and Dragon Pub just two weeks ago for the first time, and what intrigued me, other than the building itself, was its literary ...
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This week’s Friday photo is of the Ashley building on the University of Birmingham Campus. It was designed and built along with its neighbour, the Strathcona building, between 1961-64 by Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis; an architectural firm known for their significant ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust has been working with Birmingham City Council to form a new independent ‘Chamberlain Highbury Trust’, which will take over the role of managing the Highbury Estate. If you follow our blog, you will be aware that back in September we ...
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Today’s Friday photo is The War Stone rock in Warstone Lane Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter. It is a glacial erratic made from the volcanic rock felstone, which was carried here from its parent rock in Wales by glacial ice and deposited ...
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