This week’s Friday photo is of the Ashley building on the University of Birmingham Campus. It was designed and built along with its neighbour, the Strathcona building, between 1961-64 by Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis; an architectural firm known for their significant ...
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Today’s Friday photo is The War Stone rock in Warstone Lane Cemetery in the Jewellery Quarter. It is a glacial erratic made from the volcanic rock felstone, which was carried here from its parent rock in Wales by glacial ice and deposited ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of Moorpool Estate, in Harborne, but more specifically of the wonderful bowling green, one of the estate’s many green spaces. For those of you who haven’t heard of Moorpool Estate, it is a little oasis in the city ...
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Today’s Friday photo(s) are of a couple of interesting details taken in the main building at St Nicolas’ Place, Kings Norton. St Nicolas’ Place is of a group of grade II* buildings dating from the late 15th century that have been altered ...
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Today’s Friday photo is a feature brick from the new Birmingham Assay Office on Moreton street. The Birmingham Assay Office was founded in 1773 to provide assaying and hallmarking of precious metal items, as required by the Hallmarking Act. It is one of ...
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This week’s Friday photo is of a building that most people certainly pass every day if they happen to work in the city centre. Formerly the Midland Bank, and located on Bennetts Hill, it is now a popular, bustling and busy bar, ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of a display at the Pen Museum in the Jewellery Quarter. During the 19th Century, Birmingham was at the forefront of the world steel pen trade. The invention of the steel pen enabled the spread of literacy throughout the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the old Odeon in Kingstanding, which is now a popular Bingo club. The building was original constructed by Weedon and Clavering between 1935-1936 in an symmetrical, modernist, art deco design. It was purpose built as a cinema and ...
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Happy New Year to everybody! For the first Friday Photo of the year, I chose a building in the city that is probably often overlooked. Also, my camera broke last week, so you’re going to have to settle for a good old ...
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Today‘s Friday photo is of a festive St Martin’s church in the Bullring. There has been a church at the centre of the bullring markets site since the 13th century, the present Victorian church having been built on the site of its ...
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