Today’s Friday photo is Lifford Hall in Kings Norton. Before the grade II listed hall was built in 1604, the site is believed to have contained an ecclesiastical building possibly dating from Saxon times. It is known that as of 1781, Lifford Hall was ...
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Today’s Friday photo was taken within the grounds of Rowheath Pavilion in Bournville. George Cadburys plan for Bournville Village stipulated that one tenth of the total area was to be reserved for parks, recreation grounds and other open spaces. This was intended ...
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Today’s Friday photo is a follow-up to a Friday photo from a couple of years ago that featured an exterior shot of the same church – I finally managed to attend an open day at the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Price of Lazar ...
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The Birmingham Oratory on the Hagley Road has been the subject of a Friday photo before but I’d like to share this different view: the beautiful domed ceiling above the shrine of St Philip Neri. This small area, that leads off from ...
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Today‘s Friday photo is of the neglected looking Royalty Cinema in Harborne. Opening in October 1930, the building was originally designed by architect Horace G. Bradley for Selly Oak Pictures Ltd. It is now Grade II listed and one of many cinemas ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the relatively young Muirhead Tower on the university of Birmingham campus. Named for the first professor of philosophy at the University; John Henry Muirhead. As with other departments at the university that were also constructed during the ...
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The Hare and Hounds building as it is today is not the original public house that stood on this site in Kings Heath since 1824, but a replacement completed in 1907, with some minor alterations occurring at later dates. Charles Hook Collett bought the existing pub only ...
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Today’s Friday photo is an autumnal view of St Augustine’s Church in Edgbaston. The 185ft tower and spire of the church are surprisingly well hidden away on a secluded island in between the Hagley Road and Portland Road, in what is now ...
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Spoilt for choice at Heritage Open Days earlier in the month, my Sunday selection was the beautiful Highbury Hall. Having never really explored the extensive grounds before, we set of in search of the apiary and the orchard where there were plenty ...
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Inspired by the up-coming open days at the Wake Green Road Prefabs, my Friday photo today is of Central Avenue in Austin Village, Longbridge. Herbert Austin founded the Austin Motor company in Longbridge in 1905, as there was a large increase in his workforce ...
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