The Minister for the West Midlands, Liam Byrne has summarised the plan, as it currently stands, for Eastside. (Download his short briefing here). It appears that the old Parcel Force site next to the Grade 1 Curzon Street Station is to be ...
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Salesman's Bag - photo copyright Nick Booth Most of the 70,000 artefacts have now been catalogued and removed from Newman’s in preparation for buildings work. Some remain, including this samples bag.
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Image from Kate&Drew If the Birmingham Flickr group is new to you then please click this link and have a browse. More than 500 professional and amateur photographers post their pics of the city on this website, with thousands of images to browse through. ...
read moreThe National Trust is looking for two new people to help them reach members of BME communities in the West Midlands. The four year “Whose Story” project will include work to involve a wider range of communities in contributing to ...
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Work will soon begin on cataloguing and storing the contents of Newman Brothers, a critical part of recording the story of the building and the business and preparing for building work. Hundreds of you have already had a chance to visit the building ...
read moreThe £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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Our recent announcement of Advantage West Midlands’ decision to provide financial backing to progress work on Newman Brother’s coffin fittings factory in the Jewellery Quarter prompted some media interest. The Wolverhampton Express and Star made this video about the project (yes – newspapers ...
read more[youtube]yv2Yxk5Eegg[/youtube] This video is well worth a few minutes of your time. In it Cllr Martin Mullaney (a fomer trustee of the Birmingham Conservation Trust) takes us on a tour of the Grade II Moseley Road Tram depot offices – now empty ...
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