Today’s Friday Photo is Kingstanding Mound, an scheduled ancient monument located in Kingstanding on the junction of Sutton Oak Road with Kingstanding road. It is the remains of a bowl barrow, a prehistoric burial mound, and its age is somewhere from late ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the Carnegie Infant Welfare Institute on Hunters Road, Hockley. The building was purpose built from 1922-23 as a mother and child’s welfare centre. It was set up by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust who provided a grant of ...
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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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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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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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Today’s Friday photo is a feature brick from the new Birmingham Assay Office on Moreton street. The Birmingham Assay Office was founded in 1773 to provide assaying and hallmarking of precious metal items, as required by the Hallmarking Act. It is one of ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the old Odeon in Kingstanding, which is now a popular Bingo club. The building was original constructed by Weedon and Clavering between 1935-1936 in an symmetrical, modernist, art deco design. It was purpose built as a cinema and ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the demolition of Birmingham Central Library. Opened in 1974 the Library was designed by local architect John Madin in the brutalist style. Since it open it created a marmite effect, some loved it some hated it. The ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the flagstaff of Victoria Works. Victoria Works, in the Jewellery Quarter, is a grade II former pen nib factory that was purpose built for Joseph Gillot in 1839-40. Along the outer wall of the building is a beautiful ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the Chamberlain Clock in the Jewellery Quarter. I captured the picture during the evening rush hour to get a touch of light trail now the darker evenings are here! The Clock, named after Joseph Chamberlain, is a cast-iron Edwardian ...
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