Today’s Friday Photo is Brookvale Park Lake. This lake, along with the nearby Witton Lakes, were formed artificially in the 19th century as drinking water reservoirs for Birmingham. The lake is though fed from two natural brooks that rise from Kingstanding and ...
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When I saw first this view two weeks ago, I was in awe. I could clearly see the bridge between old and new, the good, the bad and the ugly, and the city of a 1000 trades, in all its wonderful and ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of St Michaels Church in Boldmere. The original church was designed by JF Wadmore of London in 1857. A decorated style with outer walls of grey limestone and white Hollington stone dressings, it was expanded twice; first in ...
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The magnet club building & sports ground was original owned by the famous Witton based company GEC (General Electric Company), which was an important local employer for many years. The building and grounds were purpose built in the 1920’s as recreational centre ...
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This was Julie’s Friday Photo back in December, just as the demolition of the iconic building started, and now six months on, the library is nearly gone, a ghost of its former self, and split in half, literally. I took this photo ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the grade II listed Baskerville House in Birmingham City Centre. Named for John Baskerville, It was built on the site of ‘Easy Hill’ his former estate. Baskerville was a renowned printer and though to be a sometime member/collaborator ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the Old Rectory at Sheldon Country Park. The building was originally used as the rectory for the nearby St Giles Church, but this was deemed too small by the then incumbent, so then became a 17th Century ...
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This week’s photo is not of a building, but of one of the most popular exhibits on display at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum- The City of Birmingham Locomotive. Many people who visit often have memories of the locomotive at the old science ...
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Today’s Friday photo is a view to the rear of the old Queen Elizabeth hospital and medical school, with its wonderfully Art Deco style clock tower. Due to the growing population and development of new technologies during the early 20th century, expansion and relocation schemes were formulated for the ...
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Today’s Friday Photo is Kingstanding Mound, an scheduled ancient monument located in Kingstanding on the junction of Sutton Oak Road with Kingstanding road. It is the remains of a bowl barrow, a prehistoric burial mound, and its age is somewhere from late ...
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