English Heritage and CABE (The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) have launched a new website which helps teachers make the best use of outside space and historic buildings in their teaching. The site is called Engaging Places and explains what ...
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Stonehenge at the chill of the winter solstice courtesy of Whimsical Chris I know our job here is to report sensible news about heritage in Bimringham, but some stories can’t be resisted. The Telegraph tells us that it was really designed as a ...
read moreIn September 2007 an extraordinary work of art was played out on empty land overlooked by the Grade 1, Curzon Street Station. It echoed the history of the place through a monstrous steam powered organ. Watch this video for a fraction of ...
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How often do you just look up? Fiona Handscomb writes on her Birmingham Post blog: I began a kind of dislocated-neck walking tour of the city centre and, since, have started taking a craned neck approach everywhere I go. Yes, I have bumped ...
read moreA fascinating blog post on a blue plaque which tells how the Bull Ring markets used to be the site of public speaking: In the 18th Century meetings outdoors in central locations were deeply political, a means of empowerment through expressing points of ...
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Lovely job from Liverpool Museums with this electronic advent calendar which also allows you to send stylish historic e-christmas-cards. If you see any similar work from a heritage organisation please let us know. Found here. See also here and here.
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An image from the new site celebrating Boulton Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in September 1728, the son of a buckle-, button- and ‘toy’-maker. ‘Birmingham toys’ were not children’s playthings, but small decorative objects such as snuff boxes, toothpick cases, nutmeg graters ...
read moreWe meet every 2nd Monday in the month in the Community Room at the Ward End Fire Station, Washwood Heath Road, Ward End, Birmingham B8 2HF (link to a map). The meetings begin at 7pm and finish at 9pm with a fifteen ...
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Big City Plan Patches of Birmingham Birmingham Central blog has put up a very useful summary of the proposals for the Big City Plan. Interestingly it looks at the different areas of the city centre an outlines how each might be treated. This ...
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Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road. Image Courtesy of Brett Wilde A new group has sprung up on the internet. The Moseley Road Preservation Society is organising partly through the social networking website Facebook. To see what they’re up to you will ...
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