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Birmingham Skin Hospital

The Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Skin and Urinary Diseases opened in a new red brick Queen Ann style building on John Bright Str...

Birmingham Accident Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre was established in April 1941 in the existing buildings of the former Queen’s Hosp...

Birmingham General Hospital opened in September 1779 on a site in what became Hospital Street , now part of Summer Lane Birmingham B19 (t...

I am posting a short series of posts inspired by my forthcoming book The Lost Hospitals of Birmingham , self-published and Kindle 2016....

Up until recently, we didn't hear much about Dr Victoria Mary Crosse, who was born on 17 May 1900 in Rye, where her father was the vicar...

... on the corner of Alcester Street sits the decaying former factory of E. Steiner Ltd. More recently it was home to Scrivens Ltd (Optician...

Until the late 19th Century accommodation choices for men ‘down on their luck’ were limited and basic, consisting of workhouse casual wards,...

A recently relocated Londoner, I have been quite struck by Bradford Street with its rows of semi-derelict factory buildings and cleared site...