The Conservation Trust has been granted £14,000 of funding from English Heritage to carry out an architect’s appraisal at the 17th-century Bells Farm. It’s great news for the farmhouse, which is a Grade II*-listed and in urgent need of restoration ...
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Bette Mansfield an usherette at The Electric in the 1930's. For the original image please click on the picture. BBC news ran a good piece on the history of the Electric Cinema on Station Street in yesterday’s new bulletins. If you ...
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Brandwood End Cemetery has twin Grade II-listed Mortuary chapels which are in need of restoration and improvements. Brandwood End Mortuary Chapels The chapels make the centrepiece of the cemetery and are designed by Birmingham-architect J. Brewin Holmes in the Gothic style of terracotta and ...
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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 – ...
read moreThe West Midlands Regional Observatory reports: Research launched by English Heritage has found a significant link between an adult’s ‘sense of place’ and the concentration of historic environment assets within their area. Sense of Place and Social Capital and the Historic Built Environment (pdf, ...
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Birmingham Central Library. Photo: Matthew Black Tomorrow we are all expecting to find out the fate of Birmingham’s famous Central library. Will it be listed, and so protected from demolition, or not? Culture minister Margaret Hodge has the final say and it is ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust joined twitter a few weeks ago. We’ve been able to have some very enjoyable conversations with people use the service. This morning Najm Clayton (who’s is doing a photostudy of Art Deco in Birmingham) asked us this question: Najm's question ...
read moreThe images above were taken of Newman Brother’s coffin works on September 11th 2009 by the Birmingham Flickr Group member keshvala. If you look at keshvala’s other photos you’ll see their passion for Birmingham’s historic buildings.
read moreBrian Simpson was one of a number of members of the Birmingham Flickr group who visited Newman Brother’s coffin work in September to take photo’s of the building. Below is his set of images.
read moreA £750,000 programme of restoration has started this week at the JW Evans factory at 54-57 Albion Street in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. This fabulous family silverware business was bought a year ago by English Heritage from a family whose workshops had been on ...
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