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Hi Warren, The Donate via Paypal link above didn't work today. Will try Monzo. Success!

Yes, either Joseph Priestley or James Watt it isn't clear yet. The other plinth is under construction at the other end of Ratcliff Passage near the reclining bronze figure of Thomas Attwood. So there will be a set of statues there.

The George Shaw photographic exhibition can now be seen on Paradise Street across the road from the Town Hall. It is worth seeing though awkwardly placed on a narrow busy pavement.

Plinth at Paradise St end of Ratcliff Passage.

I was curious about the location of Ratcliff Passage, so being in the city on Tuesday evening, I went to have a look. It runs between the Town Hall and Three Chamberlain Square, a towering red construction which is really too close to the Town Hall. The plinths for the statues are constructed...

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/hs2-dug-up-9000-ordinary-34114122 Kirsty Brosley article on Park Street burial ground - 9000 bodies excavated, 5000 reburied at Witton and 4000 in storage. We may learn more about the ages of the people buried and perhaps their illnesses and...

A bit of good publicity from CAMRA and Historic England. 'The Woodman in Digbeth, Birmingham has won the Historic England Conservation category in CAMRA’s prestigious Pub Design Awards for the careful preservation of heritage architectural features whilst updating facilities – securing it for...

It is a shame Lyn. I was wondering if Vampire Yard and the pub might have been named as a memorial to the poet John Stagg - who seems to have been famous as a blind working class poet in his time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stagg_(poet) Stokkie

Unfortunately the link to #41Midlands Pubs isn't functional. Can anyone enlighten me on the connection between John Stagg (1770–1823) the working class poet who wrote "The Vampyre" (1810) and the John Stagg the landlord of The Vampire Tavern? Was the Birmingham John Stagg a descendant?

A very interesting thread. Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897 so too late for the naming of the pub and Vampyre Court. The OED quotes 1819 John Polidori ... The Vampyre p. xx, He had been tormented by a vampyre, but had found a way to rid himself of the evil, by eating some of the earth out...

19 Calthorpe Road is currently to let to a sole occupier. It is described as a stunning four-storey, self-contained period office building, set within beautifully landscaped ground. I imagine many of these houses were built as dwellings in the days of large families and servants? [Calthorpe...

Happy Birthday Alberta! Derek

Calthorpe Residents Society has a short history of the Calthorpe Estate: https://www.calthorperesidents.org/calthorpe-estate-history/ https://www.calthorpe.co.uk is the Estate's own website. It is owned for over 300 years by the Calthorpe family and describes itself as a long term property...

I was pleased that Peter Forson the men's hat shop survives, now in its 11th year. I bought myself a Stetson cap for the summer. Peaky Blinders has been good for business. GWA has its own website these days with some interesting pictures. https://greatwesternarcade.co.uk/about-gwa There are...

It is hard to discover land ownership in England, but many of these fine properties like 36 Calthorpe Road are leasehold and I think is simply being refitted after a commercial let to a medical data research company. I have an inkling that Calthorpe Road is part of the Calthorpe Estate which...

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Numbers 1-2 The Close are grade ll listed. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1291077?section=official-list-entry But The Close has been neglected. https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-battle-for-the-close/ And Viv's thread from 2015...

Arts and Crafts houses with a Cadbury connection: https://superstructuresassociates.co.uk/cadbury-family-homes-to-be-redeveloped/ University's own page on this: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/our-campus/selly-oak-development

The University of Birmingham announced that it intends to sell parts of its Selly Oak campus for development. Alan Geale House, Archibald House, The Close, the Refectory and Chapel. History of Selly Oak Colleges on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selly_Oak_Colleges...

Wheeleys Lane, Birmingham, 1958,ink, red chalk and watercolour on paper. Just came on this and it is lovely and evocative, I think. https://www.raymond-mason.com/birmingham/ Mason had returned to Birmingham for his mother's funeral and produced a short series.