Not a Brum building at risk, but here is a really interesting piece in the London Standard, highlighted by Lucie from the Architectural Heritage Fund, on a community who uses the law to rescue their local pub from a change of use ...
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West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust – annual seminar 2013 Discovering, Recording and Conserving: 20th Century Heritage in the West Midlands Dudley Zoo, 18th April 2013 Over the last 20 years there has been increased interest in conserving the heritage of the 20th century. However the ...
read moreInteresting article in the Birmingham Post this week about the 50th anniversary of the retirement of Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor of Birmingham, who has been described as bringing “more damage to the city than the Luftwaffe could only ever dream ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust first became involved with the Coffin Works in 2001, when we carried out a feasibility study on the options for the future of the building. The option that was chosen was to turn about half of the factory into ...
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The Friday Photo by Tracey Thorne Here is this week’s Friday Photo – Bloomsbury Library. Which is run by Birmingham City Council. It was closed the day I passed by and looked very forgotten given that it is such an amazing building. I ...
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Do you really know Birmingham? Discover something new about Birmingham at the Birmingham Architecture Festival taking place over the bank holiday weekend of May 24th – 27th. The theme for the festival is “Take a Second Look”. Over the weekend a range of events ...
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Photo by Tracey Thorne This week’s The Friday Photo features Platform 5 in Moor Street Station in Birmingham. Moor Street Station dates back to 1909 and is operated by Chiltern Railway. Platform Five is home to the restored Great Western Train. Great atmosphere ...
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I have been volunteering at the Back to Back houses in Hurst Street for almost a year now and decided it would be nice to share a little about my experience so far. The Back to Back houses were originally restored by the ...
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On Saturday morning, 2nd March, a group of volunteers got together in the back room of the Shakespeare Inn, just round the corner from the Coffin Works, to start work on researching the Newman Brothers’ archive. Julie and Rachel begin work on the Newman ...
read moreThere is a free talk by Martin Killeen as part of the University of Birmingham’s Cadbury Research Library’s event programme. This may be of interest to some of you. In his later years William Morris devoted much of his energy to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded ...
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