New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Staffordshire Hoard to remain in West Midlands

Posted March 23rd, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Excellent news! Staffordshire Hoard: BBC News According to the BBC Website: The Staffordshire Hoard is to remain in the West Midlands after the £3.3m purchase price was met. This news follows on from previous fears that the hoard could be sold on the open market ...

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The Archway of Tears at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham

Posted March 23rd, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 39 Comments

    The Archway of Tears The Archway of Tears at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham     Birmingham Conservation Trust have secured funding to carry out an Options Appraisal on the Archway of Tears at the City Hospital on Dudley Road. This is the initial stage ...

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The long battle for the Staffordshire treasure hoard

Posted March 15th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

In the Sunday Times Magazine this weekend, Tony Robinson outlined the speculative history of the Staffordshire Hoard, from its Anglo Saxon origins through to why it was buried in the Midlands 1,400 years ago. Is this hoard evidence of a massacre? Where are ...

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Birmingham: A History in Maps by Paul Leslie Line

Posted March 14th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Westley’s 1731 plan of Birmingham. Photo courtesy of mapseeker.co.uk A friend and I were visiting Berrington Hall in Herefordshire a while ago and saw a framed old map of Birmingham from the mid 1700’s hanging on the wall of the study. We studied it ...

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Birmingham: Then and Now

Posted March 11th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Photo by D.J. Norton Looking through his late father’s photograph collection in early 2005, Mark Norton had a brainwave: With more careful study of the pictures I was able to work out exactly where many of them had been taken.  Subtle clues from one ...

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How can we make the most of the next 3 weeks?

Posted December 2nd, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

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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Birmingham Central Library “granted immunity from listing”

Posted November 23rd, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 6 Comments

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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Government to announce decision on Listing for Birmingham Central Library

Posted November 22nd, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

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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Art Deco Buildings in Birmingham

Posted November 14th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 14 Comments

Birmingham Conservation Trust joined twitter a few weeks ago.  We’ve been able to have some very enjoyable conversations with people use the service.  This morning Najm Clayton (who’s is doing a photostudy of Art Deco in Birmingham) asked us this question: Najm's question ...

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Simple ways to support this charity if you are involved in business.

Posted November 1st, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

Last week Jon Bounds and I spent a night in London as part of some work we were doing.  Both of us booked our hotel through  the Birmingham Conservation Trust  web shop: www.buy.at/birminghamconservation As a result the Conservation Trust took a proportion of each ...

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