DONNA TAYLOR IS A DOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. SHE IS CURRENTLY WRITING A THESIS ON THE ORIGINS OF BIRMINGHAM TOWN COUNCIL AND IS OWNER OF THE BLOG ‘NOTES FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BIRMINGHAM’. On July 19th 1881 Mayor Richard Chamberlain laid the ...
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Today‘s Friday photo is of the neglected looking Royalty Cinema in Harborne. Opening in October 1930, the building was originally designed by architect Horace G. Bradley for Selly Oak Pictures Ltd. It is now Grade II listed and one of many cinemas ...
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I couldn’t find a seasonal photo this year, so decided to share a good old favourite instead, Birmingham School of Art building on Margaret Street. Royal Birmingham Society of Artists founded the Birmingham Government School of Design in 1843, and in 1877 the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the relatively young Muirhead Tower on the university of Birmingham campus. Named for the first professor of philosophy at the University; John Henry Muirhead. As with other departments at the university that were also constructed during the ...
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Today’s Friday photo features, what I affectionately call the “water splash” in Sutton Park. I have many a happy childhood memories splashing bare feet in summer or with wellies in winter. This is a section of longmore brook near Wyndley Pool. Wyndley ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of an Anderson Shelter at Moor Pool Estate. The estate boasts many of the wartime shelters, and you’ll even find a few dotted about on its allotments. By 1939 over one and a half million shelters were ...
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The Hare and Hounds building as it is today is not the original public house that stood on this site in Kings Heath since 1824, but a replacement completed in 1907, with some minor alterations occurring at later dates. Charles Hook Collett bought the existing pub only ...
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Built in 1908, this week’s Friday photo is a beautiful grade II listed red brick building that is sure to catch your eye. Located on Albion Street and literally over the road from the Pig and Tail (formerly the George and Dragon ...
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Today’s Friday photo is an autumnal view of St Augustine’s Church in Edgbaston. The 185ft tower and spire of the church are surprisingly well hidden away on a secluded island in between the Hagley Road and Portland Road, in what is now ...
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This Friday photo is of the four civic centre tower blocks in Civic Close and Brindley Drive. In the post war era the new solution to the social housing crisis sweeping the country, was that of the high rise “tower block”. As ...
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