This week, I chose the brilliant Museum of the Jewellery Quarter located on Vyse Street. This is a great little museum nestled away in Birmingham’s famous Jewellery Quarter. The building is in fact Grade II listed, with Richard Howard-Vyse, constructing Vyse Street in ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the view down the nave towards the high altar of the beautifully ornate Birmingham Oratory Church. Birmingham Oratory moved to its current location on the Hagley road in 1852, though the original building was a simple barn-like church with a ...
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This week’s Friday photo could be none other than the newly unveiled New Street Station and Grand Central Shopping Centre. I took this picture of the spectacular roof yesterday at the opening of Grand Central. The roof allows natural light to flood ...
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The Woodman Pub is one of my favourite pubs in Birmingham because its history is so palpable, and it’s not too far from where I work! Walking into the red-brick building, you are immediately greeted with a sense of past, a sense ...
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Today‘s Friday photo is inside the beautiful modernist Roman Catholic church of St Thomas More. The grade II designated building was designed in 1968-9 by Richard Gilbert Scott (son of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, designer of the iconic red telephone boxes.) The building ...
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Steward Street School Today’s Friday photo is the former Steward Street School in Ladywood. As the summer is drawing to a close and the kids are heading back to school, I thought it fitting this week to feature an old school. Steward Street ...
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Walking along Colmore Row last week, I looked up and saw a wonderful sight- The Grand Hotel, undressed of all its scaffolding. The Hotel almost adorns Colmore Row, and the facade with its delicate brick and terracotta stonework, could easily be a building ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the view from atop the new BCU Curzon building on Cardigan Street taken during a local instameet. It is a perfect view to show the juxtaposition of many generations of Birmingham’s architectural history. Centre stage you can see the ...
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Blakesley Hall Summer 2015 Today’s Friday photo is the beautiful timber framed Blakesley Hall in Yardley. I am not sure why I have never visited before, but yesterday was my first visit to the site! It was a fascinating afternoon. At the ...
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Walking around Digbeth you may not have noticed St Anne’s Church, hidden amongst the industrial buildings of the area, its steeple peeping above roofs of the surrounding buildings- you might say that it’s almost incongruous with its surroundings. And it kind of ...
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