Mitchells & Butlers War Memorial, Cape Hill It is Remembrance Sunday this weekend. Many war memorials were built in the 1920s to mark the huge loss of life in the Great War. The pale grey limestone obelisk was a familiar pattern for these ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the interior of one of the upstairs rooms at Selly Manor, Bournville (decorated suitably spookily for Halloween). The currently occupied tester bed in the photo is thought to have belonged to Edmund Prys (1544 – 1623) – the panelled headboard ...
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Castle Bromwich Hall is a Jacobean mansion built in about 1599 for Sir Edward Devereux. In 1657 the house and its land was sold to Sir John Bridgeman I, and it was he who founded the formal gardens, that were stylised in ...
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These commercial offices were built by S. N. Cooke and E. Holman between 1931-33. Today they are apartments with a restaurant at street level. The design was a modern take on classical elements such as the Portland stone exterior which is not ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of a warehouse along the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal in Erdington. I’m not sure exactly when it dates from and there’s a real lack of information available about this part of the canal stretch, despite some gems that ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the Quaker meeting house on Bournville Green. George Cadbury, a founder of Bournville Village, was a Quaker himself and the meeting house was built in 1905, having been designed by Bournville Village architect William Alexander Harvey. The ...
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The Big House, Oldbury This week’s Friday Photo takes a step to the west from Birmingham to the town of Oldbury in Sandwell. The old town centre here survives in patches between the bus station, Sainsburys and the council offices. The oldest building ...
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Today’s Friday photo is part of the front façade of the Birmingham School of Jewellery and Silversmithing. This 1911 extension to the original school building, with its tall gridded windows, is one of my favourite façades in the Jewellery quarter. Amid the expanding jewellery trade in Birmingham, ...
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Today’s Friday photo is Coleshill Hall Farmhouse on the Birmingham Road in Coleshill. The building is grade II listed and was originally a 17th century coach house and stable block to the Medieval Coleshill Hall, which was demolished in the early 1800’s. ...
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Langley Maltings, Western Road, Oldbury Langley Maltings in Oldbury was seriously damaged by arson in 2006. This view from the Titford Canal shows the ends of the two parallel malthouses and a set of kilns between them. Walking along a curving towpath on ...
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