New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Birmingham: Public Sculpture Trails by George Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse

Posted April 20th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Public Sculpture Trails Birmingham’s historical features that contribute to the city’s quality and character are most obvious in its built heritage.  However, aspects of Birmingham’s heritage are represented through the associations with historical people and events, literature and with art. Birmingham is rich ...

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‘Ghost signs’ – our fading past

Posted April 12th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

Ghost sign on the Stratford Road. Photographed by Caroline Bunford, image courtesy of The History of Advertsing Trust Something that has always fascinated me are the faded, years old painted adverts one can occasionally spot on the sides of buildings. Some are more obvious, ...

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Birmingham Council Boundaries from 1838 to 1931

Posted April 2nd, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Birmingham Council Boundary Changes 1838 to 1931 Sometimes you spot some things that are surprisingly mundane and interesting.  This map charting the growth of Birmingham’s local authority to 1938 fits into that category and comes from the website www.british-history.ac.uk and the 1964 book ...

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Join the National Trust and help us

Posted March 21st, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Click the image to go to the National Trust Membership site This weekend saw the doors creak open to visitors in hundreds of historic properties across Britain. If the spring sunshine has got you thinking of all the brilliant places you could visit ...

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Birmingham: Then and Now

Posted March 11th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Photo by D.J. Norton Looking through his late father’s photograph collection in early 2005, Mark Norton had a brainwave: With more careful study of the pictures I was able to work out exactly where many of them had been taken.  Subtle clues from one ...

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Places of worship campaign

Posted March 11th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

The Victoria Society have this from their  Facebook Group: Places of Worship at The Heritage Alliance (POWAlliance) has joined forces with the Church of England and English Heritage in the campaign to preserve the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme beyond its planned expiry ...

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Heritage related things we have found on the web on February 13th.

Posted February 13th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 4 Comments

These are our links for February 13th: The Georgian Group: ‘Free February’ on Twitter – The Georgian Group is saying thank you to its followers on Twitter by offering a year’s free membership of the Group to all those who follow it in ...

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Ethical Xmas?

Posted December 14th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

If you like to support charity when buying Christmas gifts here are some ideas: For starters every time you use this http://buy.at/birminghamconservation we get a donation with each thing you buy. (Have a look here for a full list of traders and ...

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Photos of Birmingham Central Library

Posted December 6th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

As you may know the 1974 Central Library in Birmingham won’t be listed, which means it is very likely to be demolished. Pete Ashton has created a flickr group to collect photographs of the library before it goes. Whatever your opinion of the ...

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Save Britain’s Heritage

Posted December 4th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Piercefield, Chepstow, Monmouthshire From time to time we like to point you in the direction of other organisations which work in the same field as us. www.savebritainsheritage.org is the website of Save Britain’s Heritage, an organisation established in 1975: European Architectural Heritage Year – ...

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