At Birmingham Lives 10 (2016)

Last Sunday I attended the 10th annual Birmingham Lives Local History Fair at the Girl Guides Centre near Holloway Head, despite the best ef...

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The Birmingham Pub Bombings: searching for truth, justice and accountability

Today, Mrs Louise Hunt, the Senior Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull , will decide whether the Inquests into the deaths of the 21 people...

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Queens Hospital Birmingham

Queen’s Hospital was founded in 1841 by surgeon William Sands Cox (1802-1875) as a resource for his medical students at the Birmingham Roya...

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Birmingham Accident Hospital

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

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Birmingham General Hospital

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

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The Lost Hospitals of Birmingham

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

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at the Sorrento Maternity Hospital, Moseley

Sorrento was a large house on Wake Green Road, Moseley built, probably, by William Adams (1857-1911). Adams was the Midlands Director ...

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Real lives: Dr (Vicki) Mary Crosse & the 'bag of sugar' babies

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...

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At the Phyllis Nicklin exhibition

I set off last Friday morning to the Square adjacent to Snow Hill Station to view an exhibition of photographs by the late Phyllis Nicklin. ...

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Real lives: Remembering Dr. Chris Upton

In their Ironroom blog Archives, Heritage and Photography staff at the Library of Birmingham mourn the recent death from cancer of Dr Chris...

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#NicklinUnseen. But not for much longer?

Today sees the launch of a significant exhibition of 50 photographs by the late Phyllis Nicklin of Birmingham between 1953 and 1969. The ou...

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Goodbye Nat West House aka Tower

103 Colmore Row , formerly known as National Westminster House, is a building in Birmingham City Centre. Designed by John Madin in the b...

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At 250 Bradford Street, Digbeth, B2

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

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The Paragon, Birmingham: A remarkable hotel

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

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Around Digbeth and Deritend, Birmingham

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

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Real Lives: Remembering Phyllis Nicklin

(c) the Birmingham Post Inspired by the terrific colour slide photography of 1950s and 1960s Birmingham by the late Phyllis Nicklin, f...

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