Blakesley Hall Summer 2015 Today’s Friday photo is the beautiful timber framed Blakesley Hall in Yardley. I am not sure why I have never visited before, but yesterday was my first visit to the site! It was a fascinating afternoon. At the ...
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Walking around Digbeth you may not have noticed St Anne’s Church, hidden amongst the industrial buildings of the area, its steeple peeping above roofs of the surrounding buildings- you might say that it’s almost incongruous with its surroundings. And it kind of ...
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Todays Friday Photo was taken inside the Grade I listed Victoria Law Courts on Corporation Street, during a public open day (and not a disciplinary visit!). Architects Aston Webb and Ingress Bell won the competition to design the law courts and the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the Bejewelled Owl from this summer’s Big Hoot art trail, which stands in St Paul’s Churchyard in St Paul’s Square. The Big Hoot has brought businesses, artists, schools and the local community together to create a public trail ...
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This beautiful red-brick building is located in the heart of Sutton Coldfield and steeped in history, having once been a hotel, a council building and even a fire station. In 1974, when Sutton Coldfield became a district of Birmingham, the town hall ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust have been invited to London on the 7th September to Historic England’s Angel Awards. We are hoping to bring back to Birmingham the national prize for the Best Rescue of an Industrial Building Award for 2015 for Newman Brothers ...
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On Friday the 4th of July, a group of Birmingham Conservation Trust supporters and volunteers from The Coffin Works ventured over to Wellesbourne for a guided tour of Chedham’s Yard, a Blacksmiths and Wheelwrights yard that had been owned by the ...
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Today’s Friday photo(s) are from inside the Standard Works building on Vittoria street in the Jewellery Quarter. They were taken during a recent tour by the Ruskin Mill Trust, who had bought the grade II listed building after it having been disused for 20 ...
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Cambrian Wharf and Farmer’s Bridge Top Lock Today’s Friday photo, taken on what was a beautiful sunny day in Brum, is a view of Farmer’s Bridge Top Lock and Cambrian Wharf, which links onto the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. The Birmingham and Fazeley ...
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It’s incredibly small and discreet, so you may not have noticed the blue plaque dedicated to the Gild Hall of the Holy Cross, the former location of King Edward’s VI school. Having worked at Blakesley Hall for seven years, I learned of ...
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