Bette Mansfield an usherette at The Electric in the 1930's. For the original image please click on the picture. BBC news ran a good piece on the history of the Electric Cinema on Station Street in yesterday’s new bulletins. If you ...
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The Big Blank Canvas website - tell 'em what you think A simple site where you can say what you think represent culture in Birmingham. Don’t forget to mention our wonderful buildings. Click here: http://canvasbirmingham.com/. You can donate to Birmingham Conservation Trust here or ...
read moreAs you may know the 1974 Central Library in Birmingham won’t be listed, which means it is very likely to be demolished. Pete Ashton has created a flickr group to collect photographs of the library before it goes. Whatever your opinion of the ...
read moreWatch the video then see the exhibition. Ends Jan 3rd 2010. More here.
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Town Hall Birmingham, photo by Tim Ellis, please click it for the original. Those who keep track of this website will know that the trust had a set back this year. Losing the funding for the Coffin Works punched has left us keen ...
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Central Library in Birmingham by Rory Munro - click for original. The government has announced that the John Madin designed Birmingham Central Library will not be listed – which means that the building can now be demolished as part of Birmingham’s Big City ...
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Birmingham Central Library. Photo: Matthew Black Tomorrow we are all expecting to find out the fate of Birmingham’s famous Central library. Will it be listed, and so protected from demolition, or not? Culture minister Margaret Hodge has the final say and it is ...
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) has won £4.8 million worth of lottery money to create a Birmingham History wing which will look into the city’s development and the history of its people, it was announced today. We would like to congratulate the ...
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Newman Brothers by Brian Simpson on flickr, click on the image for the original As our effort to encourage AWM to think afresh about it’s commitment to the Coffin Works the Birmingham Post reports what’s going on: Birmingham Conservation Trust, which has been working ...
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No Access from Wayne Fox on Twitter - click to see the original The first couple of people have stepped forward to show their support for Newman Brothers following Heritage Open Days over the weekend. Ian at 7 inch cinema has used their blog ...
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