New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Friday Photo- Sutton Coldfield Town Hall

Posted July 17th, 2015 by Anne-Marie Hayes with 2 Comments

This beautiful red-brick building is located in the heart of Sutton Coldfield and steeped in history, having once been a hotel, a council building and even a fire station. In 1974, when Sutton Coldfield became a district of Birmingham, the town hall ...

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The Friday Photo – The Floozie in the Jacuzzi

Posted February 14th, 2014 by Tracey Thorne with No Comments

This weeks the Friday photo is of The River more affectionately known as the Floozie in the Jacuzzi. She sits in all her splendor in the upper pool of the fountain in Victoria Square and she weighs a cracking 1.75 tonnes. The ...

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Happy Christmas Birmingham! From the Horse Fair to the Frankfurt Market

Posted December 23rd, 2013 by Joe Turner with No Comments

Well, Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market (as featured in last week’s Friday photo) is over for another year. As it has been running for 12 years* it is almost a heritage asset in its own right now, and – love it or hate ...

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Birmingham Town Hall

Posted April 6th, 2007 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

The £35m re-working of the town hall is attracted some attention, especially from photographers using the internet website flickr to display their pics. The shot above is from focalplane, who says: (more…)

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