Stonehenge at the chill of the winter solstice courtesy of Whimsical Chris I know our job here is to report sensible news about heritage in Bimringham, but some stories can’t be resisted. The Telegraph tells us that it was really designed as a ...
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Lovely job from Liverpool Museums with this electronic advent calendar which also allows you to send stylish historic e-christmas-cards. If you see any similar work from a heritage organisation please let us know. Found here. See also here and here.
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An image from the new site celebrating Boulton Matthew Boulton was born in Birmingham in September 1728, the son of a buckle-, button- and ‘toy’-maker. ‘Birmingham toys’ were not children’s playthings, but small decorative objects such as snuff boxes, toothpick cases, nutmeg graters ...
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Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road. Image Courtesy of Brett Wilde A new group has sprung up on the internet. The Moseley Road Preservation Society is organising partly through the social networking website Facebook. To see what they’re up to you will ...
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Soho Foundry – home of the Henry Pooley Gates (image from Wikipedia) Apparently Sandwell council will be pleased to see the famous Grade II Henry Pooley Gates held at the Avery Museum at Soho Foundry (part of the “Silicon Valley of the 18th ...
read moreEnglish Heritage will be be featuring Highbury Park in a new publication on Pulhamite. I tell you this because we all need to enrich our lives with a better understanding of Pulhamite – so please have a look at the excellent ...
read moreThis weekend voting comes to an end on the rather low key campaign to hand £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund to one of four projects. Amongst the finalist is the Black Country Urban Park which plans to turn the Black ...
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We’ve already had a number of people contacting us to book their places on the two tours the trust is running. We’re opening Newman Brothers, which is emptying fast as volunteers and a team of professionals catalogue and store the contents, and ...
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English Heritage is urging us all to vote for Stonehenge in a global competition to define the new 7 Wonders of the World. The pyramids have been put through automatically, leaving 21 contenders including the Stature of Liberty and Sydney Opera ...
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One of Keith Berry This picture of the Jewellery Quarter in 1976 (yes just 30 years ago) is one of hundreds of extraordinary images you can browse online from Keith Berry. He describes the stash of images as: A selection of my ...
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