New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Highbury Hall – a new future?

Posted February 26th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Highbury Hall, Moseley, by Kate&Drew on www.flickr.com You will find a  fairly detailed piece from Cllr Martin Mulaney about the future of Highbury Hall and Chamberlain House in Moseley on the The Stirrer website, click here. He makes some interesting points about how we ...

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News from Newman Brothers

Posted February 12th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

The plating room is one of the areas being cleaned of chemical contamination We are delighted to be able to tell you that this new year is off to a positive start at the former Newman Brothers Coffin Fittings Works on Fleet Street ...

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Public Meetings in Birmingham

Posted December 2nd, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

A fascinating blog post on a blue plaque which tells how the Bull Ring markets used to be the site of public speaking: In the 18th Century meetings outdoors in central locations were deeply political, a means of empowerment through expressing points of ...

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Matthew Boulton – 2009 the year of celebration

Posted November 30th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

An image from the new site celebrating Boulton Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in September 1728, the son of a buckle-, button- and ‘toy’-maker. ‘Birmingham toys’ were not children’s playthings, but small decorative objects such as snuff boxes, toothpick cases, nutmeg graters ...

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Ward End and Hodge Hill Local History – dates and speakers

Posted November 26th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

We meet every 2nd Monday in the month in the Community Room at the Ward End Fire Station, Washwood Heath Road, Ward End, Birmingham B8 2HF  (link to a map). The meetings begin at 7pm and finish at 9pm with a fifteen ...

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Options for Birmingham’s Big City Plan

Posted November 24th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Big City Plan Patches of Birmingham Birmingham Central blog has put up a very useful summary of the proposals for the Big City Plan.  Interestingly it looks at the different areas of the city centre an outlines how each might be treated. This ...

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Ashton & Moore (Metal Colourers) Ltd.

Posted November 4th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 4 Comments

3 Legge Lane - Ashton & More. Photo by focalplane, who's father ran the business. There is a wonderful short history at the end of this link of Ashton & Moore, a Birmingham firm specialising in coatings for the aerospace industry.  It is ...

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Growing numbers of you volunteer for heritage in the West Midlands

Posted October 30th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

Volunteers, staff and contractors worked together on the huge and detailed job of cataloguing the contents of Newman Bros Every year Engish Heritage publishes a regional and national survey of the state of our heritage and today Heritage Counts 2008 (link to a ...

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A Ramble Round Old Birmingham

Posted October 28th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Follow this link and you will find a chapter from a fabulous book which looks at the coin making business in Birmingham in the 18th and 19th centuries. The blurb for George Selgin’s Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers the Royal Mint and ...

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Hidden Heritage in the West Midlands

Posted October 21st, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Cover of one of the Hidden History leaflets A new Heritage Link website on diversity and heritage has shown me something I didn’t know existed – a series of Heritage Lottery Fund leaflets on Black and Asian Heritage in the West Midlands: Caring for ...

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