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Ancient Sites: The Rough Hill

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I found Rubery Hill by accident; it slowly appeared in my peripheral vision as I walked through the council estate. The estate is dominated,...

Ancient Sites: Search For the Holy Well

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The emerging, infant waters of Holy Wells have long been valued for their healing properties, on both body and spirit. They were holy becaus...

Victorian Photo Album: More New Street (c. 1890)

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Christ Church from New Street. Held at Birmingham Archive. This photograph is taken at the top end of New Street , looking up to the Town H...

The Making of Gilt & Enamel Equipage (c. 1760s)

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Equipage with egg-shaped containers and etui, c. 1760s. Wolverhampton Museum  Collection. A previous post ( here ) explored eighteenth-centu...

The Absent City: Grosvenor House by Cotton, Ballard & Blow (New Street & Bennetts Hill, 1951-3)

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Grosvenor House. A rainy day in June 2012. On the west corner of New Street and Bennett's Hill stands Grosvenor House, built in the earl...

Victorian Photo Album: Chaucer's Head Bookshop (New Street, c. 1870s)

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Chaucer's Head bookshop at 74 New Street, c. 1870s. Held at Birmingham Archive @ Library of Birmingham. See more of the Victorian Photo ...

Victorian Photo Album: Looking Through Windows - Ornaments & Things Inside (Part Four)

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The last Looking Through Windows  ( here , here & here ) posts explored 'Greenery in the "Slums"'; and showed that...

Tour of Lost Birmingham Nᵒ.61: A Regency Stay at the Hen and Chickens Hotel (New Street)

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The Hen and Chicken's on New Street, with King Edward's school to the right, c. 1808. Coaches would enter the rear stables through...

Victorian Photo Album: Looking Through Windows - Greenery in the "Slums" (Part Three)

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Part three (of three parts) of  Looking Through Windows (Greenery) . See part one,  here   and part two, here . Please contact to use these...

Paper Remnants: Billinge & Edwards Tool Makers on Snow Hill (c. 1810)

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Trade card for Billinge & Edwards on Snow Hill, c. 1810. Engraved by Cottrell. Held at  Yale Center for British Art . B1978.43.956.

Catherine Hutton's Poem on Love & a Cosy Cottage

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Held at Birmingham Archive in the Hutton Collection. A watercolour of a small cottage accompanied by a five verse poem painted and written...

Birmingham Women: Catherine Hutton, Writer and Home Crafter (1756-1846)

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Catherine Hutton (11 February 1756 to 13 March 1846) was part of the Birmingham Hutton family, the daughter of stationer, book seller and hi...

Tour of Lost Birmingham Nᵒ.60: Turner's Brass Houses (Coleshill Street, c. 1740)

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Interior Mr. Turner's Brass Works from R. R. Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755 . Reinhold Rücker Angerstein was a Swe...

Victorian Photo Album: Looking Through Windows - Greenery in the "Slums" (Part Two)

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Part two (of three parts) of Looking Through Windows (Greenery) . See part one, here . Please contact to use these  cropped images  in this ...

Tour of Lost Birmingham Nᵒ.59: St. Martin's Parsonage (Smallbrook Street)

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St. Martin's Parsonage, from a drawing by David Cox and engraved by William Radcliffe, published 25 March 1827. Hand coloured later. St....

Victorian Photo Album: Looking Through Windows - Greenery in the "Slums" (Part One)

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Original full photograph of 'slum housing', back of 52 & 54 Midland Street, late 1800s. During the late Victorian period many of...

Paper Remnants: G. Hougton & Son "Foremost High Class Gent's Hosier's" (New Street, 1899)

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G. Houghton & Son on Birmingham's New Street, 1899. Printed by W. B. Hill & Co. See all Paper Remnants .

Victorian Photo Album: Monumental Encounters - Framing the Theatre Royal (New Street from Bennetts Hill)

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Demolition of the Theatre Royal in 1901. Held at Birmingham Archive.

Victorian Photo Album: The Old Farrier's Arms (Lichfield Street)

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Old Farrier's Arms, c. 1880s or 1890s. Held by Birmingham Archive - WK/B11/1264. The Old Farrier's Arms was a public house on Lichfi...

Victorian Photo Album: "A Kind of Subtle Beyond" on (actually Edwardian) New Street

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New Street, 1902. Held at Birmingham Archive. Photographs often include things that the photographer did not intend to capture. This is an u...

Victorian Photo Album: The Site of the Council House (Victoria Square As It Was)

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The corner of Congreve Street and Ann Street (looking up Ann Street), May 1867. Held at Birmingham Archive. This is probably the earliest ph...