New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

The Museums Advent Calendar

Posted December 1st, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Lovely job from Liverpool Museums with this electronic advent calendar which also allows you to send stylish historic e-christmas-cards.  If you see any similar work from a heritage organisation please let us know. Found here. See also here and here.

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Matthew Boulton – 2009 the year of celebration

Posted November 30th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

An image from the new site celebrating Boulton Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in September 1728, the son of a buckle-, button- and ‘toy’-maker. ‘Birmingham toys’ were not children’s playthings, but small decorative objects such as snuff boxes, toothpick cases, nutmeg graters ...

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Moseley Road Preservation Society

Posted November 16th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road. Image Courtesy of Brett Wilde A new group has sprung up on the internet.  The Moseley Road Preservation Society is organising partly through the social networking website Facebook.  To see what they’re up to you will ...

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Sandwell wants to get shut of historic gates.

Posted November 4th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 17 Comments

Soho Foundry – home of the Henry Pooley Gates (image from Wikipedia) Apparently Sandwell council will be pleased to see the famous Grade II Henry Pooley Gates held at the Avery Museum at Soho Foundry (part of the “Silicon Valley of the 18th ...

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The Practicalities of Pulhamite.

Posted January 11th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

English Heritage will be be featuring Highbury Park in a new publication on Pulhamite. I tell you this because we all need to enrich our lives with a better understanding of Pulhamite – so please have a look at the excellent ...

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Vote £50 million to help West Midlands’ Heritage

Posted December 6th, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

This weekend voting comes to an end on the rather low key campaign to hand £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund to one of four projects. Amongst the finalist is the Black Country Urban Park which plans to turn the Black ...

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Heritage Open Days 2007 – Book early!

Posted July 26th, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

We’ve already had a number of people contacting us to book their places on the two tours the trust is running. We’re opening Newman Brothers, which is emptying fast as volunteers and a team of professionals catalogue and store the contents, and ...

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Is Stonehenge one of the new 7 Wonders?

Posted June 17th, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

English Heritage is urging us all to vote for Stonehenge in a global competition to define the new 7 Wonders of the World. The pyramids have been put through automatically, leaving 21 contenders including the Stature of Liberty and Sydney Opera ...

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Keith Berry’s Photo’s of Old Birmingham

Posted June 1st, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

One of Keith Berry This picture of the Jewellery Quarter in 1976 (yes just 30 years ago) is one of hundreds of extraordinary images you can browse online from Keith Berry. He describes the stash of images as: A selection of my ...

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Could you reach out from the Back to Backs?

Posted May 15th, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

The National Trust is looking for two new people to help them reach members of BME communities in the West Midlands. The four year “Whose Story” project will include work to involve a wider range of communities in contributing to ...

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