Early photos of the Staffordshire hoard (not David's - but from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) I know a pile of gold isn’t a threatened building – but we love local heritage here at the trust. I just wanted to share some really ...
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Elizabeth Perkins, the Director here at the Conservation Trust, has finally been reunited with the wallpaper that she stripped of the walls of the Back-to-Back houses in Birmingham 8 years ago! The back to backs are run by the National trust, but ...
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One of the boxes from the John Madin Design Group. Image copyright Stuart Whipps. Click to visit his website. Last month I decided to take a look around the Ikon Gallery where I was just in time to see the exhibition ‘Why Contribute ...
read moreToday marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Titanic was one of three ‘Olympic Class’ liners commissioned by the White Star Line to be built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Construction on Titanic ...
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One of our fantastic Trustees, Nick Booth, who sadly will be leaving the Trust later in the year, has just won a major Big Society award for his work with social media surgeries. Run through his company Podnosh these free surgeries teach ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust has been selected as one of twelve case studies nationally for a new English Heritage – Heritage Counts report on resilience in heritage organisations during challenging financial times! The research, which is being carried out by BOP consulting, will particularly focus ...
read moreIt is not only in Birmingham that the fight to save old and important buildings goes on. See here – UNDERSHAW and spare a minute to think of how important Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is to our literary past. Would it then make ...
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Today Headline in the Dail Telegraph We have received this from the umbrella charity Heritage Alliance: Buried within the Budget was a shock decision by the Chancellor to introduce standard rate VAT to the cost of approved alterations to listed buildings. This means from ...
read moreIs it possible to recycle a building? I guess the answer is yes and in Birmingham we have many examples. A visit to the Birmingham Back-to-Backs will prove that not only can buildings be saved for the future, they can also be turned ...
read moreIt’s amazing to discover how many people are passionate about their local history and built heritage. Why is it that some of us are so bothered about old buildings when others would say that they are just bricks and mortar? Is it ...
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