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Just started to explore this. There's a lot here including some closed lines. It is scalable like the NLS mapping. https://www.openrailwaymap.org//index.php?style=standard&lat=52.293180116799626&lon=-2.087770957586094&zoom=19&mobile=0 Top right is a box with three horizontal lines - click and...

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/birmingham-jewellery-quarter/birmingham-jewellery-quarter/

Historic England has over 7000 images relating to Birmingham. These may be used for non-commercial purposes with attribution. https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/results/?filteroption=images&search=Birmingham&searchType=HE+Archive+New Images can be embedded- but not I think on...

Broadcast today. Good to hear a Brummie voice on Radio 4. An eclectic choice of music: Dylan, Ella and his favourite Harry Lauder. The hymn Immortal Invisible took me back to school assembly. I'm not a fan of Peaky Blinders to be honest, but this programme is about Stephen Knight. Never knew he...

I hit a brick wall. Jean Antoine was born in France before 1780. He was my 2nd great grandfather. Oct 1798 Portsmouth Hampshire. There is a record of a Jean Antoine being held as a prisoner of war in Portsmouth. He was captured in 1797 on board a French privateer called 'Le Cerf Volant’...

An 11 cm Ogham inscribed stone found in a garden and now exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery. Ogham was an early alphabet mainly used to inscribe names on stones, before early Irish adopted Latin...

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...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p713

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...