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Friday Photo: The War Stone

Posted February 19th, 2016 by Julie Webb with 1 Comment

  Today’s Friday photo is The War Stone rock in Warstone Lane Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter.  It is a glacial erratic made from the volcanic rock felstone, which was carried here from its parent rock in Wales by glacial ice and deposited ...

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Friday Photo- Moorpool Estate Bowling Green

Posted February 13th, 2016 by Anne-Marie Hayes with 2 Comments

Today’s Friday photo is of Moorpool Estate, in Harborne, but more specifically of the wonderful bowling green, one of the estate’s many green spaces. For those of you who haven’t heard of Moorpool Estate, it is a little oasis in the city ...

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Friday Photo: St Nicolas’ Place

Posted February 5th, 2016 by Ellie Gill with No Comments

                        Today’s Friday photo(s) are of a couple of interesting details taken in the main building at St Nicolas’ Place, Kings Norton. St Nicolas’ Place is of a group of grade II* buildings dating from the late 15th century that have been altered ...

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Friday Photo: Hallmark brick from the new Birmingham Assay Office

Posted January 29th, 2016 by Julie Webb with No Comments

  Today’s Friday photo is a feature brick from the new Birmingham Assay Office on Moreton street.   The Birmingham Assay Office was founded in 1773 to provide assaying and hallmarking  of precious metal items, as required by the Hallmarking Act. It is one of ...

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Friday Photo- The Midland Bank

Posted January 25th, 2016 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

This week’s Friday photo is of a building that most people certainly pass every day if they happen to work in the city centre. Formerly the Midland Bank, and located on Bennetts Hill, it is now a popular, bustling and busy bar, ...

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Job Vacancy: Weekend Operations Assistant at the Coffin Works

Posted January 21st, 2016 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

We have a vacancy for a new team member at our award-winning Coffin Works, home to the highly rated Newman Brothers museum. Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. Do you have excellent customer service skills? Are you a practical problem-solver? ...

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Friday Photo: The Pen Museum

Posted January 15th, 2016 by Ellie Gill with 1 Comment

Today’s Friday photo is of a display at the Pen Museum in the Jewellery Quarter. During the 19th Century, Birmingham was at the forefront of the world steel pen trade. The invention of the steel pen enabled the spread of literacy throughout the ...

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Friday Photo- Digbeth Police Station

Posted January 2nd, 2016 by Anne-Marie Hayes with No Comments

Happy New Year to everybody! For the first Friday Photo of the year, I chose a building in the city that is probably often overlooked. Also, my camera broke last week, so you’re going to have to settle for a good old ...

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Friday Photo: St Martin’s Church

Posted December 25th, 2015 by Ellie Gill with No Comments

    Today‘s Friday photo is of a festive St Martin’s church in the Bullring. There has been a church at the centre of the bullring markets site since the 13th century, the present Victorian church having been built on the site of its ...

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Friday Photo: Farewell Birmingham Central Library

Posted December 18th, 2015 by Julie Webb with 4 Comments

Today’s Friday photo is of the demolition of Birmingham Central Library.  Opened in 1974 the Library was designed by local architect John Madin in the brutalist style. Since it open it created a marmite effect, some loved it some hated it. The ...

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