Lyn,
A question that many of us would like answered, but in reality we all know the answer. Money!
and i cant argue with that phil..
Lyn,
A question that many of us would like answered, but in reality we all know the answer. Money!
Coun Philip Davis defends Birmingham's attempts to preserve the city's rich heritage of buildings
Birmingham Post columnist Joe Holyoak accused the city council of hating our civic heritage. Now, the authority's heritage champion Coun Philip Davis has hit back and pledges the 'bad old days’ of knocking down architectural gems are over.
I bow to no-one in my admiration for Joe Holyoak as an advocate for Birmingham's great buildings.
But to suggest the city council does not care for our community's Victorian and 20th century legacy is simply untrue.
As someone with a passionate concern for the built environment, Joe is absolutely right to draw attention to the threats we face in preserving places and buildings we value.
It is equally important to understand the scale of the challenge. Preserving Moseley Road Baths - a great Edwardian building and a product of the late 'civic gospel' period - is a massive task for the city.
And 'the city' is not just the council. It is the whole diverse community - residential and business - which makes up Birmingham in the 21st century.
BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10275 BRANSTON STREET
29.8.01 48-56
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Manufactory, empty at time of inspection (August 2000) . c. 1870, with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick with blue brick detailing and a plain tile roof, hipped at the south-east end. PLAN. Irregular, triangular building, on a wedge-shaped plot bounded by Branston Street and the railway cutting for the line which passes under Branston Street.
EXTERIOR: Front elevation of 3 storeys and 8 bays, rising from a chamfered blue brick plinth. Ground and first floor windows with semi-circular arched heads, with linked hood moulds in blue brick forming a continuous band. Ground floor windows overboarded at time of inspection. Upper floor openings with shallow segmental arched heads. C20 replacement frames for former cast-iron multi-paned frames which remain in situ in south-west end and rear elevations. Main entrance to bay 6, with stepped semi-circular arched doorway with blue brick surround and 6-panel door. Blue brick eaves band . Rear elevation with cast-iron, multi-pane window frames beneath brick segmental arched heads. C20 timber fire escape. Irregularly- placed chimney stacks, with end wall stacks to both slopes to the north-east gable, a clustered ridge stack, a stack parallel to the ridge, and a tranverse stack. These stacks served at least 16 flues, and their positions were made necessary by the buildings' eccentric plan form.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: The manufactory, known as the Branston Street Works is shown on the 1886-7 Ordnance Survey map in its present form. The 1886 Trade Directory lists 12 craftsmen , including jewellers, engravers and chasers occupying the site, ( the form of which, unusually, precluded the provision of a vehicle entrance ) suggesting that the works were designed for multi-occupancy from the outset..
A late C19 purpose-built manufactory, designed to provide workshop facilities for independent craftsmen. The use of such a very restricted site demonstrates the demand for industrial workshop space, and the value of vacant land , however limited,in the late C19 in this industrial quarter of Birmingham, now recognised as being of international significance.
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
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It's a shame what happened to the old dogs home (now a car park).
Is a building in Digbeth that was burnt down a few years ago that never got repaired. Was an auction last year, not sure what the new owners are doing about it.
This was in early 2014
It's true the old dog's home is now a car park but it's not that one. The pictures you're showing are on Deritend High Street just down from the Old Crown. The dog's home was on New Canal Street close to the old Typhoo Building.