You will have heard about the scaffolding going up at the Coffin Works, but have you seen our new panels? These will remain on the wooden shutter boards until opening next summer. For those of you who won’t naturally pass down Fleet ...
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Great news today that the Heritage Lottery Fund said YES to the City Council’s application for funding and the project at Stirchley Baths can now go ahead! Birmingham Conservation Trust were commissioned to research and write the HLF Activity Plan which covers all ...
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I am really excited to update you on some of the wonderful things happening in preparation for opening Newman Brothers as a heritage attraction next summer. So much going on!! Thanks to an AIM Biffa award, which is part of the National Heritage Landmarks Scheme, we have commissioned ...
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On Tuesday 1st October Birmingham Conservation Trust Director Simon Buteux will be giving a talk on the latest developments at the Coffin Works. The talk, entitled “A mercantile Marie Celeste”, will be take place at the Birmingham and Midland Institute on Margaret Street ...
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BCT Director, receiving our visitors for HODs 2013 Well, Heritage Open Days are over for another year and I hope you got a chance to explore the city – or indeed another town or city – as part of this year’s annual free ...
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Yesterday a new exciting exhibition launched called Voices of The Old Print Works in Balsall Heath, opposite the magnificent Moseley Road Baths. It is the result of a small Heritage Lottery Fund grant which collected oral histories from people who worked at the Old Print Works. ...
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Birmingham Town Hall is the case study at this year’s AABC conference and AGM – so architects from across the UK will be heading to our brilliant city to see conservation in action. if you are interested; here are some details: Following two ...
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With this year Heritage Open Days starting tomorrow I thought I would share these two excellent promotional videos to get you in the mood! Over the summer the HODs team in London having been working in partnership with Met Film School to commission ...
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We’re in the Rose Villa Pub in the JQ with Suzanne, Development Officer for the trust (having hijacked her log-in!)… Just doing some WordPress training. Here’s a bit about us… Joe: I’m a town planner from Stirchley, very interested in the heritage of Birmingham, ...
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Our volunteer feature writer Sairah is back with a new feature on Death! This time she has been researching death and mourning traditions in Judaism. Previous articles have been on Death in Islam and Death in Christianity. We asked Sairah to do this ...
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