Great film featuring our friends at the Pen Museum filmed by Norman Bartlam and Ladywood’s young team of reporters at TNT News. Great historical background on the Jewellery Quarter’s pen trade as well as modern day pen makers. I feel a feet up, hot cup of ...
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Suzanne Carter at Birmingham Conservation Trust has come up with a great idea to post a heritage photo each week. Sounds like a great idea; suggestions welcome? Tell me what you would like to see and we will go out and take ...
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The theme of this year’s Heritage Counts focuses on resilience: the ability of heritage organisations to cope with issues that affect them. BCT are featured as a case study along with the West Midlands Waterways Partnership. They also use an image of Tin Box’s Stop ...
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Yesterday we published the first part of this list here. These are the most popular Birmingham buildings/heritage books that you – our supporters – have bought on Amazon through our Amazon account. If you use the link at the top of this website ...
read moreCoventry Transport Museum in partnership with the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum seek a Museum and Schools Programme Project Manager http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4526112/museums-and-schools-project-manager/ While we are plugging other people’s opportunities, I’ll take this one to remind everyone that the deadline for our Trust Director vacancy is also 29 October. Back ...
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Men’s workwear for sale in the Kay & Co Ltd mail-order catalogue, Autumn 1920. Catalogue images © Kays Heritage Group, © of digital images University of Worcester Our wonderful volunteers at the Newman Brothers Coffin Works have spent a lot of time researching the clothes ...
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Here is an exciting job opportunity at the National Trust to help them achieve this ambition. Birmingham is a vibrant and dynamic city and one with a rich history and culture. Due to its large and diverse population, the city has a vital role ...
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Dear BCT Supporters, Our young friends at The News Team are collecting tokens from the Birmingham Mail to raise money for their work. TNT produces regular video news programmes for local schools and the Ladywood community. Children research stories, write scripts, film and ...
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Fantastic post from Birmingham’s Georgian and Regency Streets blog as featured in The birmingham Daily Jenni Coles-Harris is the author. In 1750 a large town was surveyed, and a map drawn up. The map recorded 4,170 houses filled with about 23,688 people. This town ...
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Interested to know what the streets in Birmingham once looked like? British Pathé since the invention of the moving image in the 1890’s began to record every aspect of global culture and news for the cinema. The site contains over 3, 500 hours of ...
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