New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Friday Photo – The Ringway

Posted March 29th, 2019 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

Today’s Friday Photo takes us a building located on Smallbrook Queensway and one that was key in the city’s Inner Ring Road scheme in the 1950s. The Ringway (formally known as the Ringway Centre) is a locally listed building designed by architect ...

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Friday Photo – Frederick Street Townhouse

Posted March 1st, 2019 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

I’m back in the Jewellery Quarter for this week’s Friday Photo. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever really left. There are just too many wonderful buildings with stories to tell. This Friday, we’re on Frederick Street which is home to the ...

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Friday Photo – Burne-Jones House

Posted February 1st, 2019 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

This week’s Friday Photo is of the Art Deco inspired Burne-Jones House situated on Bennetts Hill and the site of the former birthplace and home of one of Birmingham’s favourite sons, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 19th-century artist. Bennetts Hill was originally created as ...

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Friday Photo – Unity Works

Posted January 6th, 2019 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

Happy New Year to all our Friday Photo followers! 2019 will hopefully be a year of more interesting photo stories from in and around Birmingham. This week’s Friday Photo is of the Grade II-listed Unity Works, tucked away on Vittoria Street in the ...

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St Paul’s Square in autumn

Posted December 11th, 2018 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

This week’s Friday Photo is of an autumnal-looking St Paul’s Square. I walk through here every day and love to see it changing with the seasons – autumn is my favourite though. Designed by Roger Eykyn of Wolverhampton, the building was constructed in ...

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Friday Photo – Newhall Street

Posted November 9th, 2018 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

Today’s Friday Photo is of Newhall Street which many people will remember was home to Birmingham’s Museum of Science and Industry before it moved to Eastside in the early 2000s. This stretch of road is the main route into the Jewellery Quarter ...

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Friday Photo – Queensway Tunnel

Posted October 12th, 2018 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

I took this photo on an autumn night in September. What’s surprising is how much this bridge ‘moves’ which I’d never noticed before, but then again, I suppose I’d never tried taking a long-exposure photo from here before. The Queensway tunnel was officially ...

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Friday Photo – 21 Lugate Hill

Posted August 20th, 2018 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

This week’s Friday Photo is of a large 19th century red-brick warehouse you’ve most likely walk past, but never looked up to notice just how beautiful it is. Well, it’s not actually a warehouse anymore, but it once was! Its date of construction ...

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Friday Photo – 48 Camden Street

Posted June 22nd, 2018 by Anne-Marie Hayes with 4 Comments

  I’m still focussing on the Jewellery Quarter – there’s just too many fantastic buildings to discover! This week’s Friday photo takes us to Camden Street, 48 Camden Street to be precise. I pass this building almost every day and it stands out ...

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Friday photo – The Gwenda Works

Posted May 25th, 2018 by Anne-Marie Hayes with 2 Comments

Okay, so I haven’t moved on from Legge Lane since my last Friday Photo…but there are just so many beautiful old buildings to discover on this stretch of road. A small stretch of road mind you! This week, we are transported to ...

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