In honour of yesterday being National Read A Book Day, today’s Friday photo is of Stirchley library. The building is grade II listed and was designed by architect John P. Osbourne. The land on which it was built in 1905 was gifted by ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of a large 19th century red-brick warehouse you’ve most likely walk past, but never looked up to notice just how beautiful it is. Well, it’s not actually a warehouse anymore, but it once was! Its date of construction ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the BT Tower standing tall in the Birmingham skyline, in a view taken from the top floor of another Birmingham landmark, the Rotunda. At 152m high and designed by the Ministry of Public Building and Works, the BT ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of one of the of glacial erratic boulders in Cotteridge park. Cotteridge park was one of the many parks created in the early 20th century for the health and wellbeing of the inhabitants of Birmingham. There are a ...
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I’m still focussing on the Jewellery Quarter – there’s just too many fantastic buildings to discover! This week’s Friday photo takes us to Camden Street, 48 Camden Street to be precise. I pass this building almost every day and it stands out ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the small section of tracks that remain at what was the Rednal Tram Terminus. The tracks were part of the Birmingham Corporation Tramways network, the other end of this line starting in Birmingham city centre. The Rednal ...
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Okay, so I haven’t moved on from Legge Lane since my last Friday Photo…but there are just so many beautiful old buildings to discover on this stretch of road. A small stretch of road mind you! This week, we are transported to ...
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In today’s Friday photo this overgrown flowerbed hides a secret. Concealed underneath is the stump of the oak tree that was removed from the junction of the Bristol Road and Oak Tree Lane in 1909. At the time they believed that it ...
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From its junction with New Street to Old Square, Corporation Street is well-known for its shops. Beyond Old Square the street carries on down to the Childrens’ Hospital and it has entirely different character. Many of the buildings here are offices for ...
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