architecture

Hi everyone, this is my first post so I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing and fingers crossed the spell-checker works. The lady is Margaret Joyce Szewczuk nee Bennett, born Harris in 1919, d.1982, the grandmother i never met. There’s a few questions i have even though it’s way too late but I’ll...

What do we know about the Futurist Theatre? According to this enthusiastic feature in the 30 July 1919, Birmingham Gazette it was built by my great, great grandfather Harry J. Dorse of Cradley Heath and seated 1230 people in the day. I'm doubtful it's still a working theatre, but I'm curious...

The colour photographs in Birmingham Pevsner Architectural guides are striking and are arguably the best I have seen in any book on Birmingham. Certainly all but 1 picture is new to me. Andy Foster covers Birmingham architecture with considerable breadth but this constrains the opportunity for...

I remember only a little of the revamping of Victoria Square and its surrounding area in 1993, definitely not in graphic detail and although I was 14 years old and should remember better, I cannot recall what it looked like before. How it is now, as far as my memory is concerned, is how it's...