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I know many people who use this web site rarely go in to Birmingham city centre, and some now live away from the city or even abroad, but they like to keep up to date on what is going on in the city. So here is an update on the "Paradise" project (so called because it runs alongside Paradise...

Queen Victoria statue is still in Victoria Square. The Golden boys (who are now VERY golden) have been removed while the building work is going on but will be placed back in Centenary Square. However the building BEHIND the Golden Boys in the photo above (Register Office where I got married)...

About 20 years ago I attended a 10 week evening class about the history of the canal network given by one of the men who had helped save the Stratford Upon Avon canal from abandonment. He told the story about how in the 1950s the canal was chock full of weeds and other plant life, and how the...

That photo was from 2007 and is no longer in Centenary Square, it has not been there for years. It is now in storage in the Museum storage centre.

I cant see the problem. Yes there is disruption while they lay the tram tracks, but when that is finished it will be fine. And the tram taking people up and down Broad St will be a huge advantage. I can remember (not that long ago) when Broad St was a main road in to an out of the city for...

Ah that explains it !

It must have been early for it to be that quiet. I often go up early on a Sunday morning and park in and around Gas Street to wander round taking photographs and it is rare to see Broad Street so quiet. It is almost like the city has been abandoned!

In two updates above I have tried to show details of the developments taking place around Broad Street. To continue that here is an update on the "Paradise" project (so called because it runs alongside Paradise St) This is the site of the old 1970s John Madin library that was demolished a...

Microsoft say they will stop supporting Windows 7 in January 2020, but it is important to understand what this means. Updates from Microsoft for any version of Windows come in two "flavours" 1) New function 2) Security fixes Microsoft stopped putting new function in to Windows 7 a long time...

This is 103 Colmore Row, on the site of the old Nat West tower. If you look at the website below, and scroll down to the "Floor by Floor" section it does show a lift going all the way from the ground floor up to the restaurant and it is called "Restaurant Lift" so it makes me think the...

Following on from my image above showing the four projects going on in the Westside area of Birmingham, here is a bit more detail of one of those projects - Arena Central. This plot is on the site of Alpha Tower and the old Register Office and Central TV studios. It is bordered by Broad St in...

I am not sure when you left, but this area has been a hive of building activity for the last few years. There have been 4 major buildings projects in this one fairly small area, as you can see from the image below. For those that don't know the 4 building project are as follows: Paradise...

In those old cowboy films you always see a person ride in to town on a horse, ride up to the saloon or sheriffs office, very loosely tie their horse up to a railing, and go in to the nearby building. But this was the lawless Wild West, so surely any horse left unguarded outside a building was...

Because Herbert Manzoni, (City Engineer and Surveyor of Birmingham from 1935 until 1963) said and thought as follows: "I have never been very certain as to the value of tangible links with the past. They are often more sentimental than valuable... As to Birmingham’s buildings, there is little...

I have said many times on these forums that when I moved to Birmingham in about 1980 the city was dying. Many of the traditional industries were closing and factories were being abandoned. The canals had been abandoned and the areas alongside them were mostly a dump. We had the Handsworth riots...

Blind Faith mentioned above - Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Stevie Winwood, Ric Grech. I went to see their first concert that was a free concert in Hyde Park, London in 1969. I had been a big fan of Cream but never saw them live, AND a big fan of Traffic with Stevie Winwood (saw them live in...

More on STEAM house here https://www.steamhouse.org.uk/

Do you mean CCleaner as opposed to Cleaner? CCleaner is a product (used to be called Crap Cleaner) that clears out unwanted files on your computer. You can download CCleaner here: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner Windows also has clean up utilities. One called "Disk Clean-Up" in Windows 7...

A lot of people complain when Microsoft bring out a new version of Windows and eventually stop supporting the older versions. But there are two main reasons for this. 1) Why a new version of Windows? When any operating system comes out it tends to be written to support the hardware that is...

Birmingham as a city is at a crossroads. Currently it has a poor reputation amongst many people in the UK (I help on TripAdvisor forums a lot, and whenever anyone, from UK or abroad - says they want to visit Birmingham the general reply is "what on earth for"). Now the cities image is slowly...