Although this has appeared as a Friday photo before, I want to draw attention to a building currently at risk. The Fox and Grapes Pub is one of Birmingham’s oldest public houses, and sadly now at threat, due to proposed demolition plans in favour of HS2. The grade-II star listed pub was one of the first buildings to be constructed after the land around Freeman Street was divided into burgage plots between 1724 and 1725. Most of its structure and visible façade was altered in the mid-19^th century, so today it appears as a humble Victorian building (and even then, most people fail to recognise its age and history), desperately in need of some love and affection.