After some fantastic news reports in the past, we have asked the TNT News Team from Ladywood, led by Norman Bartlett, to report on the restoration project for us and keep us updated on the on-site progress when the contractors have taken ...
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Last Friday all the remaining contents of The Coffin Works were packed up and shipped out as we get ready for the start of restoration work. We were joined by eight employees from Ernst & Young in Birmingham who took advantage of their ...
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Great day at Stirchley Library and outside the baths today; collecting hands, community support and ideas about how we present ‘the heritage of the baths’ to people. Amazing turnout! We estimate we engaged with over 200 people – and a huge thanks ...
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Just looking through this latest Birmingham Heritage Forum marketing leaflet reminds me of the richness and exciting heritage we have to offer in the city. Download a leaflet at will, or pick up a copy from any of the featured venues in the leaflet, ...
read moreUnfortunately we have had to cancel the Sunday tours and well as Saturday. It is still snowing in the Jewellery Quarter, conditions are freezing and BBC WM says that conditions on the roads are worse than yesterday. The advice is again not to ...
read moreUnfortunately we have had to cancel all the tours of the Coffin Works today, Saturday 23rd March due to the snow. Too many people, including volunteers giving the tours, couldn’t make it and the advice on the radio said roads could be ...
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We will capture on film some of the stories of what it was like to work in the Shroud Room This week the Trust welcomed the first members of the team who will be making the Coffin Works come to life as a ...
read moreNot a Brum building at risk, but here is a really interesting piece in the London Standard, highlighted by Lucie from the Architectural Heritage Fund, on a community who uses the law to rescue their local pub from a change of use ...
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West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust – annual seminar 2013 Discovering, Recording and Conserving: 20th Century Heritage in the West Midlands Dudley Zoo, 18th April 2013 Over the last 20 years there has been increased interest in conserving the heritage of the 20th century. However the ...
read moreInteresting article in the Birmingham Post this week about the 50th anniversary of the retirement of Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor of Birmingham, who has been described as bringing “more damage to the city than the Luftwaffe could only ever dream ...
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