Soho Foundry – home of the Henry Pooley Gates (image from Wikipedia) Apparently Sandwell council will be pleased to see the famous Grade II Henry Pooley Gates held at the Avery Museum at Soho Foundry (part of the “Silicon Valley of the 18th ...
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3 Legge Lane - Ashton & More. Photo by focalplane, who's father ran the business. There is a wonderful short history at the end of this link of Ashton & Moore, a Birmingham firm specialising in coatings for the aerospace industry. It is ...
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Volunteers, staff and contractors worked together on the huge and detailed job of cataloguing the contents of Newman Bros Every year Engish Heritage publishes a regional and national survey of the state of our heritage and today Heritage Counts 2008 (link to a ...
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Follow this link and you will find a chapter from a fabulous book which looks at the coin making business in Birmingham in the 18th and 19th centuries. The blurb for George Selgin’s Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers the Royal Mint and ...
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Cover of one of the Hidden History leaflets A new Heritage Link website on diversity and heritage has shown me something I didn’t know existed – a series of Heritage Lottery Fund leaflets on Black and Asian Heritage in the West Midlands: Caring for ...
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Heather Broadbent of AWM with our Director Elizabeth Perkins outside Newman Bros. on Fleet Street We have just heard some great news: our project at Newman Brothers has been granted planning approval. Above you see Heather Broadbent of AWM with our director Elizabeth ...
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Industry and Genius scuplture using Baskerville font, picture from Tim Ellis So what is the Baskerville Project I found myself asking (not alone) since I stumbled across the beginnings of an animation from Smile (see through this link). A quick search and the ...
read moreThere are few things more seductive than old film. Jon Bounds has been rootling through the online footage at MACE — that’s the Media Archive for Central England. There is a 1956 colour film about living in Back to Backs which I’ve ...
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Aston Hall, image by Martin Hartland A news release from Birmingham City Council tells us that a further £300,000 has been made available for the restoration project at Aston Hall. The council writes: A much loved local landmark is set to receive a £300,000 ...
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The Old Crown - image courtesy of Steve Cadman You have until the 14th of November to get your thoughts in the conservation area for Digbeth, Deritend and Bordesley High Streets. Birmingham City Council writes: Digbeth/Deritend Conservation Area was designated in May 2000. It lies ...
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