Heritage Open Days 2007 – Curzon Street Cat
Curzon Street Cat Anne Levitt – a trustee – and the old cat found under the floorboards at Curzon Street Station. Picture from here.
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Heritage Open Days 2007 – Book early!
We’ve already had a number of people contacting us to book their places on the two tours the trust is running. We’re opening Newman Brothers, which is emptying fast as volunteers and a team of professionals catalogue and store the contents, and ...
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Is Stonehenge one of the new 7 Wonders?
English Heritage is urging us all to vote for Stonehenge in a global competition to define the new 7 Wonders of the World. The pyramids have been put through automatically, leaving 21 contenders including the Stature of Liberty and Sydney Opera ...
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A Visit to Soho Foundry
Soho Foundry May 2007 - Image Ted Rudge Expect interesting developments over the next couple of years for Soho Foundy, a place which Simon Baddeley describes as “part of a Silicon Valley of the 18th century”. (The picture was taken by Ted ...
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Keith Berry’s Photo’s of Old Birmingham
One of Keith Berry This picture of the Jewellery Quarter in 1976 (yes just 30 years ago) is one of hundreds of extraordinary images you can browse online from Keith Berry. He describes the stash of images as: A selection of my ...
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Photos of Birmingham – thousands of them
Image from Kate&Drew If the Birmingham Flickr group is new to you then please click this link and have a browse. More than 500 professional and amateur photographers post their pics of the city on this website, with thousands of images to browse through. ...
read moreVAT, listed buildings and the heritage of the Olympics.
The campaign to see VAT refunded for work on Listed buildings owned by charities is gathering pace. The Princes Regeneration Trust has just published a report by the New Economics Foundation proposing VAT relief for work on listed buildings owned by charities ...
read moreCould you reach out from the Back to Backs?
The National Trust is looking for two new people to help them reach members of BME communities in the West Midlands. The four year “Whose Story” project will include work to involve a wider range of communities in contributing to ...
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Could you volunteer for Newman Brothers?
Work will soon begin on cataloguing and storing the contents of Newman Brothers, a critical part of recording the story of the building and the business and preparing for building work. Hundreds of you have already had a chance to visit the building ...
read moreBirmingham Town Hall
The £35m re-working of the town hall is attracted some attention, especially from photographers using the internet website flickr to display their pics. The shot above is from focalplane, who says: (more…)
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