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This is a series of archives, but open to the public provided you book at least a week in advance. Located at the base of Muirhead Tower) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/cadbury/visiting https://www.flickr.com/photos/cadburyresearchlibrary/albums/ (Which has photographs of many items...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/arts-groups-urge-bankrupt-birmingham-not-to-sell-its-heritage I believe that everyone regardless of politics can get behind this letter by Historic England, Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

https://www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2023-shortlist-announced/ African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History by Hakim Adi (Allen Lane) nominated, which is handy for the author as his university, Chichester, made him redundant. Specialist MA courses tend not to make money as the numbers...

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Opening on May 1st under a mile from the centre of Coventry. A restored medieval Charterhouse with wall paintings. It began as a Carthusian monastery.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/27/coventry-medieval-charterhouse-opens-to-public-after-11-year-rescue-effort...

We have found an associate of Joseph Sturge (who was himself Quaker), George Hancock b. 1820 d.13 Jan 1894. He was superintendent of Stoke Prior Reformatory from 1852 -1873. The Bromsgrove Advertiser reports his funeral at St Michael and All Angels, Stoke Prior. 'The remains of the deceased...

I know a bit about Victorian crime and punishment. Can anyone suggest ways of researching a reformatory and its inmates. Am I correct in assuming they would have committed crimes to be sent there? Harold Waller born Liverpool 9 Sept 1895 was sent to Stoke Farm Reformatory and discharged Nov...

My village had a halloween celebration a couple of days ago with fireworks in a farmer's field and a history walk round the churchyard at night, Lych Gate, yew trees, devil's door. I carved a swede (turnip or neeps for those living in the north) as I remember doing this as a child. They are...

This 5 story building has no entrance from Hinckley St at the moment. It is surrounded by development. I've often wondered what it was. Is it a back with access from Station Street?

In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s many Brutalist buildings were constructed. (Brutalism means simply that they were constructed from reinforced concrete ‘beton brut’ - raw concrete in French.) Some like the Rotunda are loved, some like the Prefabs are rather neglected and some like John Madin's...

The thread on Fish and Chip shops developed into home made faggots and home smoking of foods. I thought I'd post a few recipes. Faggots. At home we used pig meat, but other meats can be used in the mix and the spicing can be simple or elaborate. The chefs have taken an interest in offal and...

The future is high-rise and green, an intriguing combination. Present day Birmingham is marked by the absence of many high-rise buildings constructed since September 11th. Several Modernist buildings in the Brutalist design (simply French for concrete) are either demolished or set for...

How will you spend the 4th July? Do you think of yourself as American? How did you get your green card? Do share your story! I guess the fireworks are the consequence of the software. But they prompted my questions. Also if you are American living here in the UK, why did you join this board? Do...

This was taken from the top floor balcony of Curzon Building, Birmingham City University looking towards Curzon Street Station. Parkside Building to the right. The view will be completely transformed in the coming years. Curzon Street Station is covered with scaffolding at the moment. I'm glad...

Anyone remember or use this shop which was situated before the junction with Wigorn and Abbey Road? It looked old fashioned. Mom bought Orris root from there sometimes and Liquorice root which we chewed as a sweet. I remember using orris to make potpourri with rose petals from the garden. It was...

I think this would have been taken at Edgbaston Reservoir, Osler Street or Clark Street. My family had connections with Clark Street Adult School. I don't know if the was ever a youth club in the area? Mom went to school in Clark Street and Osler Street. There are a few photos of fancy dress and...

My grandparents John and Sarah Maria Chinn lived at 15 Reservoir Terrace from the early years of the last century, having moved from Parker street. John worked as a gardener in a private house near the Botanical Gardens in Edgbaston, his wife as maid, then cook-housekeeper. Sarah-Maria was born...

My mother, Edith Chinn worked there for seventeen and a half years starting bagging sugar age 14 in 1921. It was a wholesale grocers. Leach Lane disappeared in the 1960s, but ran from Monument Road to Freeth Street. These pictures of Edith with her workmates were taken in the Summer of 1939 on...