Click on the image to go to Amazon Christmas is a great time to do something simple to help the Birmingham Conservation Trust. If you shop on Amazon and use the link in the top right hand corner of this website or any ...
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Imber Village from Wiltshire Heritage on flickr Ghost signs are quite a common urban feature – ghost villages though are more commonly thought of a rural. Acccording to the BBC, publishers of The Times Atlas of Britain is asking people to share their ...
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Simon Hammond is our hero of the month. Social media can have some curiously random benefits for charities. earlier this week Simon Hammond asked facebook which charity he should support for his charity roulette. As I am wont to do I chucked a ...
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History Pin is a website that acts as an archive of the world’s historical photographs and stories. The site uses Google Maps and Street View technology to allow you to layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, revealing a series of ...
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Please see the poster above for information regarding the upcoming November 15th Free Heritage Event organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to be held at the Midlands Arts Centre ( MAC ). Are you interested in doing your own community heritage project , ...
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Played in Birmingham will lead readers along a trail of fascinating locations and little known buildings, landscapes and waterscapes, in all corners of the city and its surrounds detailing the diverse sporting heritage that can be found in Birmingham. Birmingham possesses several ...
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Halloween is just around the corner, Haunted Birmingham by Arthur Smith and Rachel Bannister is a collection of stories of apparitions, manifestations, strange sightings and happenings in Birmingham’s Streets, churches and buildings. A great book if you are interested in the paranormal and ...
read moreIt probably wont surprise anyone but the number of local government officers working on building conservation and archaeology is falling and is epxected to continue to do so, according to a report published on the Historic Environment Local Management website. This report shows ...
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Public parks emerged in the 1830’s to improve the health of the working classes living in the over-crowded conditions of the rapidly growing industrial towns. It was hoped that parks would reduce disease, crime, and social unrest, as well as providing “green lungs” ...
read moreCurator Irene de Boo discusses completion of a £1.14 million facelift of Birmingham’s 13th Century Weoley Castle Ruins.
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