Today’s Friday photo is of a tin tabernacle on the Aldridge Road. It is not the most glamorous of buildings, but it is an interesting historical concept. Tin tabernacles were developed in the mid 19th century, as prefabricated buildings made out of ...
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This factory was built in about 1900 and appears on maps simply as “Bedstead Works” facing the workhouse that evolved into City Hospital. (more…)
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This week’s Friday Photo is of the Art Deco inspired Burne-Jones House situated on Bennetts Hill and the site of the former birthplace and home of one of Birmingham’s favourite sons, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 19th-century artist. Bennetts Hill was originally created as ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the Obelisk on Monument Hill in Lickey Hills Country Park. The Obelisk is a grade II listed monument made of Anglesey marble, it was erected in 1834 as a memorial to Other Archer the 6th Earl of ...
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This smart blue and gold clock stands near the Kings Head pub at Bearwood. One hundred years ago it stood on the opposite side of the Hagley Road. How did it manage to cross the road? I would like to say the ...
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Today’s photo is the former Presbyterian Church on Broadstreet. This staffordshire blue brick church was built in 1848-49 by J R Botham and was original a presbyterian church and in 1929 was taken over by the Second Church of Christ Scientist. It ...
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Happy New Year to all our Friday Photo followers! 2019 will hopefully be a year of more interesting photo stories from in and around Birmingham. This week’s Friday Photo is of the Grade II-listed Unity Works, tucked away on Vittoria Street in the ...
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When is a Church not a Church? When it’s a Chapel. The Old Church in Smethwick was originally built as a chapel of ease. It saved weary parishioners from making to the long walk to the parish church of St Peter in Harborne ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of an autumnal-looking St Paul’s Square. I walk through here every day and love to see it changing with the seasons – autumn is my favourite though. Designed by Roger Eykyn of Wolverhampton, the building was constructed in ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the Selly Oak institute on the Bristol road. Now looking rather neglected, the grade II mock timber frame building was opened by George Cadbury in 1894, having been gifted to the working community by the Cadbury family ...
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