New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Lost Buildings of Birmingham by Roy Thornton

Posted March 23rd, 2010 by BCT with 3 Comments

Click above to view this title on Amazon I was able to go to The Victorian Society‘s Saving a Century exhibition at the Central Library just before it moved on to the next city. It was completely engrossing with some fantastic photography and stories both dispiriting ...

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Birmingham: Then and Now

Posted March 11th, 2010 by BCT with 1 Comment

Photo by D.J. Norton
Looking through his late father’s photograph collection in early 2005, Mark Norton had a brainwave:
With more careful study of the pictures I was able to work out exactly where many of them had been taken.  Subtle clues from one ...

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The dark corners of the coffin works – photoset

Posted October 31st, 2009 by BCT with No Comments

Genesis4626 took this wonderful set of images of Newman Brothers back in September.  They capture the atmosphere of the dark corners of the old works.

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Gethin Thomas’s images of the Newmans Brothers

Posted October 30th, 2009 by BCT with No Comments

More images of Newman Brothers – this time from Gethin Thomas.

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Another set of images from the Coffin works.

Posted October 29th, 2009 by BCT with No Comments

The images above were taken of Newman Brother’s coffin works on September 11th 2009 by the Birmingham Flickr Group member keshvala.  If you look at keshvala’s other photos you’ll see their passion for Birmingham’s historic buildings.

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