Wandering down the canal as you do I came across this interesting Stop Lock, I realised that it resembled the threatening French guillotine. After some research I found out that the guillotine styled stop lock is the only one of its kind on ...
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This weeks the Friday photo features Junction House which is Grade II listed and dates back to 1796. It was a tollhouse and still to this day has a board on the front of the house showing how much people had to ...
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The BT tower is a dominant and familiar presence in the Birmingham skyline. Built in 1965, the building is our tallest. When it was built it was known as the GPO tower and then after that the Post Office tower. The tower ...
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Simon, Alistair and me! It’s fairly true to say that Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works first came to the public’s attention in 2003 when it was one of three buildings featured in the regional heats of the series ‘Restoration’, aired on BBC2 and ...
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This weeks Friday photo is late apologies. It was taken in the Shakespeare Memorial Room at the new Library of Birmingham which open at the end of this summer. The room was originally created and designed to house the Shakespeare Memorial Library ...
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The wait is over! We are delighted to announce that our The Friday Photo wall calendar – Historic Birmingham 2014 – is now available. It is a limited print run, so please don’t delay and buy yours today!!! We are promoting it as ‘the ...
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Brandwood End Cemetery (as featured in Tracey’s Friday Photo a couple of months ago) in Kings Heath is a fascinating and peaceful place to visit, especially at this time of year. It was opened in 1899 – by George Tallis, Chairman of ...
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Not a building or a monument, Sutton Park is still a historic treasure. The largest urban park in Europe, Sutton Park’s history can be traced back at least to Roman times and there is a Roman road running through it that dates ...
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John Bright was MP for Birmingham for over thirty years, from 1858 to his death in 1889. A relatively obscure figure now, he was a key reformist figure in the nineteenth century. An independent thinker, for the majority of his parliamentary career ...
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This weeks the Friday is back on the lovely canals of Brum. This photography was taken on a stretch of the Grand Union Canal in Saltley looking towards Saltley viaduct which was built in 1895. The Victorian bridges along the Grand Union ...
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