New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Friday Photo: Flour, Fasteners and Fire

Posted March 13th, 2020 by Dave Evetts with No Comments

This ornate doorway in Princip Street appears to go nowhere, certainly not to offices that the faded lettering on the lintel suggests. I think it’s the last bit of the Britannia Mills. In 1849 Mary Bodington & Sons were listed as Corn Merchants at this ...

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Friday Photo – Taylor and Challen Building

Posted March 6th, 2020 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

The Grade-II listed building, which dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was originally constructed as a foundry specialising in producing metal works and a wide variety of machinery for Birmingham’s booming metal trades, including presses and stamps. It was ...

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Friday Photo: Mitchells and Butlers War Memorial

Posted November 8th, 2019 by Dave Evetts with 1 Comment

Mitchells & Butlers War Memorial, Cape Hill It is Remembrance Sunday this weekend. Many war memorials were built in the 1920s to mark the huge loss of life in the Great War. The pale grey limestone obelisk was a familiar pattern for these ...

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A Cycle Conundrum

Posted March 14th, 2019 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Can you help? We’ve had a enquiry come through about Birmingham’s industrial past. The gentleman is trying to assemble information on the Tildesley [Cycles] Limited company.He has been unable to find much factual information on the Internet apart from but ...

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WAKE GREEN ROAD PREFABS – MY LIFE IN ONE

Posted November 3rd, 2017 by BCT moderator with No Comments

Terry Bates, a past resident of the Wake Green Road prefabs, recalls his youth spent there: Much has been written about these buildings that were erected as a temporary measure in 1945. They still stand today and I’m sure that the walls could ...

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