The plating room is one of the areas being cleaned of chemical contamination We are delighted to be able to tell you that this new year is off to a positive start at the former Newman Brothers Coffin Fittings Works on Fleet Street ...
read moreIn September 2007 an extraordinary work of art was played out on empty land overlooked by the Grade 1, Curzon Street Station. It echoed the history of the place through a monstrous steam powered organ. Watch this video for a fraction of ...
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An image from the new site celebrating Boulton Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in September 1728, the son of a buckle-, button- and ‘toy’-maker. ‘Birmingham toys’ were not children’s playthings, but small decorative objects such as snuff boxes, toothpick cases, nutmeg graters ...
read moreWe meet every 2nd Monday in the month in the Community Room at the Ward End Fire Station, Washwood Heath Road, Ward End, Birmingham B8 2HF (link to a map). The meetings begin at 7pm and finish at 9pm with a fifteen ...
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Big City Plan Patches of Birmingham Birmingham Central blog has put up a very useful summary of the proposals for the Big City Plan. Interestingly it looks at the different areas of the city centre an outlines how each might be treated. This ...
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Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road. Image Courtesy of Brett Wilde A new group has sprung up on the internet. The Moseley Road Preservation Society is organising partly through the social networking website Facebook. To see what they’re up to you will ...
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Volunteers, staff and contractors worked together on the huge and detailed job of cataloguing the contents of Newman Bros Every year Engish Heritage publishes a regional and national survey of the state of our heritage and today Heritage Counts 2008 (link to a ...
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Cover of one of the Hidden History leaflets A new Heritage Link website on diversity and heritage has shown me something I didn’t know existed – a series of Heritage Lottery Fund leaflets on Black and Asian Heritage in the West Midlands: Caring for ...
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Heather Broadbent of AWM with our Director Elizabeth Perkins outside Newman Bros. on Fleet Street We have just heard some great news: our project at Newman Brothers has been granted planning approval. Above you see Heather Broadbent of AWM with our director Elizabeth ...
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Industry and Genius scuplture using Baskerville font, picture from Tim Ellis So what is the Baskerville Project I found myself asking (not alone) since I stumbled across the beginnings of an animation from Smile (see through this link). A quick search and the ...
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