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Norman Street Park is located near the Soho Loop in Winson Green, Birmingham. A small park near a place called Centre of the Earth. The Asylum Bridge gives you access to the Soho Loop.
Part of the Roundhouse to Chance Glassworks Arts Trail. This sculpture was made by Luke Perry and artist Canaan Brown entitled Black British History is British History. Close to the prison.
Outside of Birmingham Children's Hospital on Steelhouse Lane is a work of public art called Stretching Balloon Dog by whatshisname (Sebastian Burdon).
A work of public art by Holly Hendry at the Birmingham City University SteamHouse called Lip-Sync. Located to the corner at Jennens Road and Cardigan Street in Eastside.
Trifecta Residences will optimise a brownfield site with three new buildings, delivering a 550 build-to-rent community.
The Tony Hancock memorial is located at Old Square in Birmingham. Unveiled in 1996, it was made by Bruce Williams. It looks like a newspaper photo of the late comedian.
The first Neighbourhood Futures Festival was run by Birmingham Settlement between 26th June and 1st July 2023 at Selwyn Road Playing Fields, Birmingham.
Here we can follow the exciting developments taking place on land at the rear of 47-77 Selwyn Road, land that is located adjacent to the wonderful Edgbaston Reservoir
Crown Place is a 33-storey, 100.1m purpose-built student development within the student quarter of Birmingham.
St Mary's is the Parish Church of Acocks Green on the Warwick Road near Acocks Green Village. Built in the 19th century by J G Bland and later J A Chatwin in the 13th century style.
St Barnabas' Church was built in 1822-23 by Thomas Rickman, near the High Street in Erdington. There was a fire in 2007, that led to a rebuilding. The church was reopened in 2012.
The Dovecote can be seen from the Alcester Road in Moseley. Now within the grounds of Moseley Hall Hospital. It dates to the 18th century.
A small red brick building facing the Alcester Road in Moseley, it was formerly a cow house in the grounds of Moseley Hall Hospital. Now used by members of the Moseley Society and friends.
Moseley Hall was built around 1790. A century later it was the home of Richard Cadbury, who gave it to the City to be a Children's Home in 1890. Now part of Moseley Hall Hospital.
The West Midlands Police Museum opened in the former Lock Up of Steelhouse Lane Police Station from 2020. The police station next door closed around 2017.
Kings Norton Community Fire Station is located at the top of Pershore Road South in Cotteridge, opposite the railway station. It was built in 1930.
The Button Works, a historic Grade II* listed Birmingham gem dating back to 1872, is to be sensitively repurposed and restored to deliver 29 residential apartments.
Cambrian Wharf is an inclusive new student community of 1,205 bed spaces at the heart of University College Birmingham’s (UCB) city campus.
The J&S Motorcycles building is to be transformed into a residential community containing 136 apartments across a new seven-storey.
This prominently placed property, built between 1865-69 to become a Victorian Masonic Halls, is to be given a much-needed facelift.
Winson Green Junction is where the Soho Loop of the BCN Old Mainline joins to the straighter BCN New Mainline canal. The Soho EMU Depot is nearby, and you can see the trains from the bridges.
Smethwick Junction is a must visit location for followers of history and heritage. It is to be found on the Birmingham mainline canal between Birmingham and Sandwell.
King Charles III & Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday 6th May 2023. In the West Midlands, Union Jack flags, and bunting etc have gone up everywhere.
This is Volume Works' transformation of the Gunsmith Quarter.
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