I was in Birmingham today and took the time to visit the new Birmingham Library. I’d heard about it on the dreaded Radio 4 when a few weeks ago they’d run a hugely positive effectively promotional report on it prior to opening. It had opened earlier this week and as it was a Saturday today …
Category archives: planning
Bull Street Quaker Meeting House
Amazing site just of Bull Street in the centre of Birmingham. A small lane leads off the main road between to giant buildings and there hidden lies the Quaker Meeting House somehow surviving the high rise developments around it. It is however not run by the Meeting but by a private conference company who allow …
preparing a new paddock
There is land across the road that has been contested for many years, it is poisoned from earlier periods of mining and the dumping of various wastes and is heavily contaminated in places with arsenic amongst other things. It has also become home to a vast and expanding colony of Japanese knotweed. It was owned …
for example
Sheffield has a plethora of Edwardian terraced houses. Street after street of them with more or less ornate decorative features. I came across these windows recently. They are on three houses each one separated by only one other house in the same terrace. They are amongst the few that I’ve seen where the window furnishing …