Regarding the recommendations for books about Birmingham I thought I would share this with everybody. My choice of book may seem to some like a very odd choice. However, the book concerned is by an Author called David Christie Murray who was ...
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With Panto season upon us it seemed fitting to look at Birmingham’s theatre heritage.
The era of theatre building took place from the 1880s to World War I, where over 1000 professional theatres were operating in Britain at this time. One of the ...
During the summer months I started to look into historic hospital buildings and during this time I came across ‘Urban Explorers’. They are a community of people who are dedicated to historic buildings and decay. They like to look around and take ...
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Lost Victorian Britain is the latest book by architectural historian Gavin Stamp and exposes the brutality towards the Victorian architectural heritage. The books sub title ‘How the 20th century destroyed the 19th century’s architectural masterpieces’ says it all.
Lost Victorian Britain by Gavin ...
Played in Birmingham will lead readers along a trail of fascinating locations and little known buildings, landscapes and waterscapes, in all corners of the city and its surrounds detailing the diverse sporting heritage that can be found in Birmingham.
Birmingham possesses several ...
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