Today’s Friday photo is of the relatively young Muirhead Tower on the university of Birmingham campus. Named for the first professor of philosophy at the University; John Henry Muirhead. As with other departments at the university that were also constructed during the ...
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Today’s Friday photo features, what I affectionately call the “water splash” in Sutton Park. I have many a happy childhood memories splashing bare feet in summer or with wellies in winter. This is a section of longmore brook near Wyndley Pool. Wyndley ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of an Anderson Shelter at Moor Pool Estate. The estate boasts many of the wartime shelters, and you’ll even find a few dotted about on its allotments. By 1939 over one and a half million shelters were ...
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The Hare and Hounds building as it is today is not the original public house that stood on this site in Kings Heath since 1824, but a replacement completed in 1907, with some minor alterations occurring at later dates. Charles Hook Collett bought the existing pub only ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the lunar stones, which were commissioned to commemorate the famous Lunar Society. This was a society made up of members of prominent midland industrialists, philosophers and intellectuals, which included James Watt and Josiah Wedgewood. Nine lunar stones were ...
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Built in 1908, this week’s Friday photo is a beautiful grade II listed red brick building that is sure to catch your eye. Located on Albion Street and literally over the road from the Pig and Tail (formerly the George and Dragon ...
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Today’s Friday photo is an autumnal view of St Augustine’s Church in Edgbaston. The 185ft tower and spire of the church are surprisingly well hidden away on a secluded island in between the Hagley Road and Portland Road, in what is now ...
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This Friday photo is of the four civic centre tower blocks in Civic Close and Brindley Drive. In the post war era the new solution to the social housing crisis sweeping the country, was that of the high rise “tower block”. As ...
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This week’s Friday Photo is of a structure you have probably seen before, if you’ve ever ventured into Digbeth, and you’d be mistaken for thinking that trains run along its tracks. But what is fascinating about this week’s photo is that the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is taken in Witton Cemetery. The cemetery opened in 1863 and was consecrated by the Bishop of Worcester in May of that year. It was the only cemetery owned by the corporation of Birmingham, until it acquired others from 1911. ...
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