St Mary's Church Moseley from Ell R Brown on flickr (click on the picture for the original) Two types of conservationists are powering up for a confrontation over a church roof in Moseley in Birmingham. The very successful SusMo (Sustainable Moseley) is looking ...
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Heritage Open Days from Leo Reynolds on flickr English Heritage have announced that they will be running the annual Heritage Open Days event. The future of Heritage Open Days had been under threat since the Civic Trust in England had been placed in ...
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Is the heritage we celebrate sometimes too wrapped up in what we think of as ‘important’ history? Jon Bounds thinks so and has launched the Campaign for Real Heritage. This is what he says: Are you fed up with “officials” deciding what’s important? ...
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Cover of one of the Hidden History leaflets A new Heritage Link website on diversity and heritage has shown me something I didn’t know existed – a series of Heritage Lottery Fund leaflets on Black and Asian Heritage in the West Midlands: Caring for ...
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Heather Broadbent of AWM with our Director Elizabeth Perkins outside Newman Bros. on Fleet Street We have just heard some great news: our project at Newman Brothers has been granted planning approval. Above you see Heather Broadbent of AWM with our director Elizabeth ...
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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Blognor Regis points us to this interesting piece in the Daily Telegraph about Dan Cruickshank’s campaign to see Euston Arch Rebuilt when Euston Station is redeveloped sometime during or after 2012. The website provides some context: The failure to save the arch ...
read moreThis image is one of a number taken by Brett Wilde. You can find more of his photos of Birmingham’s buildings here.
read moreThe £35m re-working of the town hall is attracted some attention, especially from photographers using the internet website flickr to display their pics. The shot above is from focalplane, who says: (more…)
read more[youtube]yv2Yxk5Eegg[/youtube] This video is well worth a few minutes of your time. In it Cllr Martin Mullaney (a fomer trustee of the Birmingham Conservation Trust) takes us on a tour of the Grade II Moseley Road Tram depot offices – now empty ...
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