Ham House (image from the National Trust website) For those of you who (like myself) love the peace and quiet of a historic building or garden, but sometimes begrudge having to share this tranquility with other visitors, the National Trust recently released an ...
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Photograph of Queen Victoria courtesy of the Ironbridge website Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge, Shrophire will be celebrating the 81st birthday of Queen Victoria over Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend (29/05 – 31/05) with an ‘extravaganza of colour, music and street entertainment’. A ...
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Can you think of any Victorian or Edwardian buildings in the Birmingham area which may be at risk? The Victorian Society is about to launch its annual appeal to find the nation’s most endangered historic buildings. Endangered can mean there are plans to ...
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Manor House, West Bromwich. Image courtesy of Sandwell Council website The Manor House, a medieval building in West Bromwich, has been closed to the public for years and is only open for designated events and open days – including this Sunday and Monday ...
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Ghost sign on the Stratford Road. Photographed by Caroline Bunford, image courtesy of The History of Advertsing Trust Something that has always fascinated me are the faded, years old painted adverts one can occasionally spot on the sides of buildings. Some are more obvious, ...
read moreBirmingham Central Library could be considered the Marmite of libraries: you either love it, or you hate it. Well, here is a project for those who wish to profess their love for that Brutalist structure: Project Brutal. (via Created in Birmingham) “Project Brutal: Initial ...
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Bells Farm in 1969 - photo by Phyllis Nicklin from the Birmingham University Archive Dave Thomas, one of our volunteers has sent us this update which I thought we would share with you: I’m really interested in old buildings and the work that Birmingham ...
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Piercefield, Chepstow, Monmouthshire From time to time we like to point you in the direction of other organisations which work in the same field as us. www.savebritainsheritage.org is the website of Save Britain’s Heritage, an organisation established in 1975: European Architectural Heritage Year – ...
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Barges on the Birmingham Canal by slack12 on flickr (click picture for original) This blog post from Stephen Bubb, the CEO of ACEVO caught my eye: I have had discussions with British Waterways about their interest in becoming a third sector organisation a currently ...
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