Our first Literary Bus meeting was at Blakesley Hall in 2010. This picture became synonymous with the project, with Gollum peering behind Chris in Blakesley’s beautiful gardens. © Anne-Marie Hayes I first met Chris 10 years ago while working at Museum of the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the view down the nave towards the high altar of the beautifully ornate Birmingham Oratory Church. Birmingham Oratory moved to its current location on the Hagley road in 1852, though the original building was a simple barn-like church with a ...
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This week’s Friday photo could be none other than the newly unveiled New Street Station and Grand Central Shopping Centre. I took this picture of the spectacular roof yesterday at the opening of Grand Central. The roof allows natural light to flood ...
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The Woodman Pub is one of my favourite pubs in Birmingham because its history is so palpable, and it’s not too far from where I work! Walking into the red-brick building, you are immediately greeted with a sense of past, a sense ...
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In 1932 Highbury Estate – Highbury hall and its gardens, the Birmingham home of Joseph Chamberlain – was given in trust to the City of Birmingham. Since then it has been operated by Birmingham City Council as sole trustee. It has been ...
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Thank you to all our wonderful supporters and friends, for voting for Birmingham Conservation Trust and our Newman Brothers Coffin Works Restoration to win the Heritage Angels 2015 People’s Favourite Award! It’s a long title, but a very worthwhile prize that means a ...
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Today‘s Friday photo is inside the beautiful modernist Roman Catholic church of St Thomas More. The grade II designated building was designed in 1968-9 by Richard Gilbert Scott (son of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, designer of the iconic red telephone boxes.) The building ...
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Steward Street School Today’s Friday photo is the former Steward Street School in Ladywood. As the summer is drawing to a close and the kids are heading back to school, I thought it fitting this week to feature an old school. Steward Street ...
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Walking along Colmore Row last week, I looked up and saw a wonderful sight- The Grand Hotel, undressed of all its scaffolding. The Hotel almost adorns Colmore Row, and the facade with its delicate brick and terracotta stonework, could easily be a building ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the view from atop the new BCU Curzon building on Cardigan Street taken during a local instameet. It is a perfect view to show the juxtaposition of many generations of Birmingham’s architectural history. Centre stage you can see the ...
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