In an old warehouse just north of Birmingham city centre is a treasure trove of pale, unopened boxes. Hundreds and hundreds stacked up in rows like the tombstones of Manila Bay, filled with reminders of history. Each one contains the intriguing remains ...
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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 ...
read moreThe British Library has invited the BCT website to participate in their web archiving programme. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and give permanent access to key UK websites for future generations. Selected websites are considered to be of long term research ...
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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, ...
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 moreThere are few things more seductive than old film. Jon Bounds has been rootling through the online footage at MACE — that’s the Media Archive for Central England. There is a 1956 colour film about living in Back to Backs which I’ve ...
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