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And to be fair the developers have employed specialist architectural heritage photographers and conservators.

The developers/contractors on Great Hampton St now exposed the cellar and furnaces under part of the Lampworks and have done a cracking photo of the ghost sign I couldn't get from my side of the compound fence. Any detail on Strawbridge (maybe an s but can't see the end) painter and glazier of...

Cordia Blackswan now have the former Lloyds Bank as their HQ and have rediscovered the mosaic flooring under the current banking hall flooring. This is going to be restored. For those with Instagram here's a link to their post. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSGy6vSAzlF/?utm_medium=copy_link

Cordia blackswan are the developers and try very hard to protect heritage stuff as best they can. Might be worth contacting them as they are always open to ideas.

Had to pop down and take a few photos once I found out!

Ah yes hadn't clocked that. Those batteries must be really heavy looking at the size of them. So much for computer models, should've got my slide rule and log tables out of retirement!

Yep all now been examined for potential cracks and monitored regularly now so I understand.

New crossover being laid at the Bull St end for the Digbeth extension and trams couldn't go beyond there for some time so replacing the stretch of rails from there to Grand Central. Guess it's cheap French steel rails being replaced with real metal lol!

Worse still with Corporation St closed the Council didn't inform the businesses affected. The owner of the Tilt bar turned up this morning and realised there's no way deliveries can get to his property and neither can the emergency services! Only in Birmingham can a business battle to survive...

Good luck with this one then!

The Lamp Works which will be filling the gap where the demolition revealed the ghost signs. No hope of saving them so go see whilst you may.

As Shaw Taylor would say "Keep 'em peeled"!

A lot of the buildings are in such poor condition I can actually understand having to let them go but as you say we need to do all we can to record and preserve memories for future generations. I'm not from Birmingham originally and only moved into JQ in 2006 but I'm as interested as anyone in...

2018/10135/PA on planning portal takes you to all the documents.

Might be me I'm no teccy either but the link looked like it worked. It's an acrobat file. If not you can find it on the planning online site. I'll add the reference later. Teatime now!

The heritage report I attached has a lot of detail so your answer might be in there somewhere!

Have been reading the planning application documents from 2018 which were very illuminating. As we suspected the buildings were originally set back. In fact if you look at the photo below the two storey bit behind the single storey frontage is the original building line here. I’ve attached a...

My fault I should have made it clear when I spoke to the reporter. I'll make sure the forum gets a credit if there's a next time!