New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Conservation Areas at Risk – an English Heritage Survey

Posted April 17th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Do you live in a conservation which you think is at risk?  Have you had experience of regulations protecting conservation areas being eroded? English Heritage is approaching every local authority in the country for a first national survey of Conservation Areas as a ...

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Engaging Places

Posted January 15th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

English Heritage and CABE (The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) have launched a new website which helps teachers make the best use of outside space and historic buildings in their teaching. The site is called Engaging Places and explains what ...

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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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Options for Birmingham’s Big City Plan

Posted November 24th, 2008 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Big City Plan Patches of Birmingham Birmingham Central blog has put up a very useful summary of the proposals for the Big City Plan.  Interestingly it looks at the different areas of the city centre an outlines how each might be treated. This ...

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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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Birmingham Victorian Surgeon starts blog

Posted December 18th, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

We’ve borrowed this from Jon Bounds – verbatim: James Fitzjames Fraser West, is going to start blogging on livejournal in January, only thing is he’s been dead since 1883. James was a surgeon at Queen’s Hospital (later the Accident Hospital, and now a ...

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