Today’s Friday photo is the former home of Suffragette and trade unionist, Julia Varley. A Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque was erected on the house in Hay Green Lane, Bournville in her honour. In 1909 she established a branch of the National Federation of ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the former Rednal Library. Designed by Benjamin Bower and built in 1909, it is another of Birmingham’s Carnegie library buildings. Andrew Carnegie provided the funds for the erection of the building, and the purchase money for the land ...
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Today’s Friday photo is Northfield Library in South Birmingham, another of the ‘Carnegie libraries’ funded by Andrew Carnegie the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist. The land was given by George Cadbury and the foundation stone laid in 1906. The original library building and its contents, including 1,500-1,600 books, ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the ornate main entrance porch to the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. The building was designed by J. H. Chamberlain of Martin & Chamberlain architects, it was the last building he would design before he died in 1883. The site was given ...
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Staying local for today’s Friday photo: this week it is Kings Norton library. Situated on the Pershore Road, near to Kings Norton Green, Kings Norton Library is another of the Carnegie funded libraries in Birmingham (that I am slowly working my way through ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of Merecroft Pool, in Kings Norton Nature Reserve. The nature reserve is a lovely place to walk for a little bit of fresh air. Merecroft pool itself is thought to have been dug in around 1900 for use ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the imposing front entrance of the Church of Our Lady & St Rose of Lima. It is locally listed at Grade A and was designed by the architect Adrian Gilbert Scott: of the famous Gilbert Scott family of architects. Two other Birmingham ...
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This week’s Friday photo looks towards Victoria Square in the city centre. Taken a month or so ago, it shows the ongoing building work in the area and a side view of the grade I listed town hall which was designed by ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the interior of one of the upstairs rooms at Selly Manor, Bournville (decorated suitably spookily for Halloween). The currently occupied tester bed in the photo is thought to have belonged to Edmund Prys (1544 – 1623) – the panelled headboard ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the Quaker meeting house on Bournville Green. George Cadbury, a founder of Bournville Village, was a Quaker himself and the meeting house was built in 1905, having been designed by Bournville Village architect William Alexander Harvey. The ...
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