My name is Elli Szarka and and today is the last of 5 days I have spent working with the Birmingham Conservation Trust as part of my post-GCSE work experience, just as everyone was getting even more caught up in the restoration ...
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There was good news this month when it was announced that the 28 storey Alpha Tower building at the bottom end of Broad Street/Suffolk Street has been given grade II listed status by English Heritage. This sculptural modernist tower which was built in ...
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Join an undertaker (Brian Parsons), an undertaker’s daughter (Kate Mayfield), and a Victorian gothic novelist (Essie Fox) for a fascinating candle-literary evening which is taking place on October 8th in the Shroud Room of the newly restored Coffin Works in Birmingham’s Jewellery ...
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This week was the Centenary of WW1 so it seemed fitting to remember those who lost their lives by featuring this week the beautiful stained glass window in the Hall of Memory. The Hall of Memory opened in 1925 to commemorate those ...
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If you have been to Manor Farm Park, just off the Bristol Road between Selly Oak and Northfield, you’ll have noticed the ‘Cadbury Barn’ at the main entrance which is semi-derelict and boarded up. Birmingham Conservation Trust has been commissioned to prepare an ‘Options Appraisal’, ...
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As you will know by now (but please keep on spreading the word!) at the end of October 2014, Birmingham Conservation Trust is opening an industrial heritage attraction located in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter. The Newman Brothers factory, built in 1894 and ...
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A building close to my heart, The Queen’s Arms pub on Newhall St was opened around 1820. It is a Grade II listed building and is a fine example of a Victorian drinking establishment. It even has its own ghost which cheekily ...
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Dawn, as an ex-funeral director, has been an invaluable source of information on the project, helping me developing my own knowledge of coffin furniture. Six months ago I embarked on what was possibly the most daunting (and exciting!) task of my career so ...
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This weeks the Friday photo features the beautiful Argent Centre formerly known as the Albert Works. The building sits proudly on the corner of Legge Lane and Fredrick Street in the Jewellery Quarter and contains a number of workshops. It is grade ...
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Ok well we apologies but there was no Friday photo last week so today we will do two. So for last Friday here is this fabulous motif that can be seen on Albion Rd side of the Old Fire Station in the ...
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