Today’s Friday Photo is of Summer Row! If you transport yourself back to 15th-century Birmingham, you would be transported back to green fields and miles of woodland- a little different from 21st-century Birmingham, and this street was actually called New Road. This ...
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Today‘s Friday Photo is the festive looking interior of Symphony Hall. The hall is 26 years old this year, having had its opening night on the 15th April 1991. It is home to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, who had previously ...
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The Windsor Theatre, Bearwood, Smethwick Once there were many theatres in small towns providing entertainment. As movies grew in popularity, some theatres were converted to cinemas, some closed forever. In turn the small local cinemas closed as multi-screen megaplexes appeared. The Windsor is a ...
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I really don’t know how I hadn’t heard of this building until about 18 months ago. Maybe it’s because it’s slightly off the beaten track, away from the madding crowds, or maybe it’s because Birmingham is a city deeply modest about its ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the sad looking Kingsway Picture House in Kings Heath. More recently in use as a bingo hall as of 1980, the building was erected in 1925 as a cinema designed by Horace G. Bradley. Bradley was also the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the sunken garden at Moor Hall Hotel in Sutton Coldfield. You may think this was purpose designed as a pretty country house “secret garden” but it’s origins are actually much more interesting. This was originally part of a ...
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By David Evetts This distinctive building by the architect Holland Hobbiss sits on Soho Hill in Birmingham, not far from Soho House. It housed jewellery makers, goldsmiths and silversmiths when it opened in 1922. It has a very different look to many nearby properties ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of another new building- The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, as it’s now been renamed. It was founded as the Birmingham School of Music in 1886, but this building dates from 2017! I watched it being built for over ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the Black Horse public house in Northfield. Now a Grade II* listed building, it was designed by Francis Goldsborough as the flagship public house of Davenports brewery, built in 1929-30. A spate of new pubs were built during ...
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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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