An interesting new section on the English Heritage website has been launched all about the history of disability and the built environment: from 1050 to the present day. Disability in Time and Place reveals how disabled peoples’ lives are integral to the heritage all around us. From ...
read moreGreat film featuring our friends at the Pen Museum filmed by Norman Bartlam and Ladywood’s young team of reporters at TNT News. Great historical background on the Jewellery Quarter’s pen trade as well as modern day pen makers. I feel a feet up, hot cup of ...
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Like many people I spend a fair amount of time at a desk, behind a computer. Working for BCT I do, however, have many a day when I’m out and about, meeting new volunteers, developing new areas of work and getting back ...
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Tickets for our Candle-lit tours of the wonderful Newman Brothers (with a Victorian Christmas theme, cup of hot choc and mince pie!) are ON SALE NOW! Over 50 gone in last two days, but we have lots of tours between Wed 12 ...
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For this week’s Friday Photo, we thought that, as Birmingham is looking so Christmassy, we should join in. The Friday Photo was taken in Birmingham Cathedral (1715c) and features the Nativity. The glass is from one of four windows designed by Edward Burne ...
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Last week we said our ‘official’ farewell to Nick Booth who after ten years stepped down as a Trustee. You might remember me mentioning that due to our new Constitution, Trustees now only serve for a maximum of 3 years. It is ...
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We have just added a new Blogger Profiles page on the BCT website where you can find out about our wonderful team of BCT bloggers! If you are keen to share your thoughts, interests, pictures and passion for Birmingham’s rich historic environment and heritage and ...
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Suzanne Carter at Birmingham Conservation Trust has come up with a great idea to post a heritage photo each week. Sounds like a great idea; suggestions welcome? Tell me what you would like to see and we will go out and take ...
read morePaul from Midlands Heritage has take some wonderful images inside Newman Brothers which we thought we’d share with you! See his flickr page… Paul has also put them all on a moving gallery on Youtube. It is just under 10 minutes long, but ...
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The theme of this year’s Heritage Counts focuses on resilience: the ability of heritage organisations to cope with issues that affect them. BCT are featured as a case study along with the West Midlands Waterways Partnership. They also use an image of Tin Box’s Stop ...
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