secret passageways tours

[Astoness]

sadly no good for me now as have mobilty issues but maybe some of our more able bodied members would like to visit and take some photos for us...lyn

Visit 'secret passageways' in city centre where public aren't usually allowed

The hidden space tour will take you where few Brummies go - including to an old makeshift mortuary

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[mw0njm.]

Birmingham's Hidden Spaces: Opulence of the Council House hides horrors of Second World War

During the Second World War these tiled spaces acted as a mortuary overspill for the hospital. Victims of bomb attacks and fires were brought here when there was no room at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

www.business-live.co.uk

The old morgue inside Birmingham Council House. (Image: Adam Fradgley/Exposure)

 

[John L]

Here's a link to something similar that they did 11 years ago. Like Lyn, I'm no longer quite agile enough to attempt the new tour myself, but it does sound a decent way to spend a couple of hours or so, for those members that are:

Look: See the hidden treasures in the depths of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Matthew Goer gives us a glimpse into an Aladdin's Cave that would quicken the heartbeat of Indiana Jones himself.

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[mw0njm.]

Here's a link to something similar that they did 11 years ago. Like Lyn, I'm no longer quite agile enough to attempt the new tour myself, but it does sound a decent way to spend a couple of hours or so, for those members that are:

Look: See the hidden treasures in the depths of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Matthew Goer gives us a glimpse into an Aladdin's Cave that would quicken the heartbeat of Indiana Jones himself.

www.birminghammail.co.uk

i can read it with out subsribing

 

[mw0njm.]

last open day was

 

[mw0njm.]

sure would like to go but its too far