Public parks emerged in the 1830’s to improve the health of the working classes living in the over-crowded conditions of the rapidly growing industrial towns. It was hoped that parks would reduce disease, crime, and social unrest, as well as providing “green lungs” ...
read moreCurator Irene de Boo discusses completion of a £1.14 million facelift of Birmingham’s 13th Century Weoley Castle Ruins.
read moreThe BBC reports today that the Former Moseley School of Art is on the Victorian Societies list of the 10 most endangered Victorian buildings in England and Wales. The BBC says: The list of 10 was drawn up using nominations from members of the ...
read moreThe last outing this year for Birmingham’s enchanting history bus: From the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Website.. 3rd October 2010 – 3rd October 2010 Travel through time on our free History Bus around some of Birmingham’s finest heritage sites. Please note that this is ...
read moreWe’ve just received this… Join Historian Ben Waddington on a tour of sights and buildings inspired by his article ‘Invisible Architecture’ from Issue One of Dirty Bristow. Register here http://invisiblearchitecture.eventbrite.com/ and pay your £5 when you get there. . He says: ...
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We have some utterly brilliant news. Birmingham Conservation Trust now owns Newman Brother’s Coffin Works. In the past we were working on the project through the previous owners, Advantage West Midlands. We have bought the building from AWM with support from Birmingham City ...
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Water fun at the Coffin Fittings Works We have been cleaning up ready to welcome visitors to the Coffin Fittings Works Open Day on Saturday, September 11th. We are at 13-15, Fleet Street and look forward to showing you round. Although we have no running ...
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We owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to our wonderful volunteers who turned up this morning and gave us more than 100% effort. It was a mammoth task to clean up and prepare for our Open Day on Saturday, but Julian, Teresa, ...
read moreCome and visit us on Saturday September 11th and see inside the Coffin Fittings Works. We will be delighted to show you round, explain the processes of manufacture and tell you some of the stories of Newman Brothers. When we last opened, we had some ...
read moreJust a quick post about some interesting work going on in Handsworth. I’m going to quote at some length from a Be Birmingham news release: Local residents took part in a variety of free, family fun activities on Friday 20th August . There was ...
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