These are our links for April 19th through April 25th: 1940 Britain's Finest Hour – 1940 was Britain’s first full year of war. It was not only the year that the country’s very existence was threatened, it was also – as Churchill ...
read moreThese are our links for April 2nd through April 15th: Aston Hall in frame for awards double | birminghamnewsroom.com – Aston Hall is in the frame for two prestigious awards less than a year after the completion of a £12.5 million revamp. ...
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Ghost sign on the Stratford Road. Photographed by Caroline Bunford, image courtesy of The History of Advertsing Trust Something that has always fascinated me are the faded, years old painted adverts one can occasionally spot on the sides of buildings. Some are more obvious, ...
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Birmingham Council Boundary Changes 1838 to 1931 Sometimes you spot some things that are surprisingly mundane and interesting. This map charting the growth of Birmingham’s local authority to 1938 fits into that category and comes from the website www.british-history.ac.uk and the 1964 book ...
read moreThese are our history related links for April 1st from 09:08 to 11:22: Some will be about Birmingham heritage others wont: Recession-busting lottery boom adds millions to heritage fund | UK news | The Guardian – “The nation’s attempt to gamble ...
read moreThese are our links for March 26th through March 30th: Over £4m funding goes to nine projects! | Community Spaces – Kings Heath and Dudley Canal Trust all get big chunks of money from Big Lotter and the Community Spaces programme The Heritage ...
read moreThese are our history related links for March 22nd from 22:55 to 23:22: Some will be about Birmingham heritage others wont: Flatpack Festival 2010 – Event – More films about buildings – You can't beat a bit of windswept decay and ...
read moreThese are our links for March 20th through March 21st: Birmingham Mail – News – Birmingham News – Harborne and Kings Heath cinemas worth protecting say conservationists – "TWO ‘beautiful’ Art Deco former cinemas could be granted protection from demolition after winning ...
read moreThese are our links for March 11th through March 20th: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, West Midlands – Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery – Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Sarehole Mill and Soho House open their doors again from 2nd April 2010. The ...
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Westley’s 1731 plan of Birmingham. Photo courtesy of mapseeker.co.uk A friend and I were visiting Berrington Hall in Herefordshire a while ago and saw a framed old map of Birmingham from the mid 1700’s hanging on the wall of the study. We studied it ...
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