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The perennial favourite at Aston Manor Transport Museum, Routemaster RM506 (WLT506) is seen behind the museum on 18/10/15.
... featuring Black Sabbath Bridge, formerly known as Broad Street Bridge.
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Located on the top of the hill in Aston Park just over the road from Villa Park the home of Aston Villa FC. This Jacobean house was owned by the Holte family and was visited, at least once, by the Stuart King Charles I.
Piccadilly Arcade, with its beautiful ceiling mural plus a Snowdog from the festive sculpture trail currently on display until early Jan 2024
A trip to Birmingham for the Frankfurt Christmas Market, plus a look around the city's shops.
Birmingham City skyline looking across Bartley Green Reservoir from Frankley Beeches.
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Birmingham's church of St Philip was designed by Thomas Archer in 1709 and largely finished by 1715 (the tower being completed 1725). The original stone weathered badly so the exterior was entirely refaced in the 1860s (though the tower had to wait till 1958) and a new larger chancel replaced Archer's shallow apse at the east end in 1883-4 (by J.A, Chatwin).
The church was designated as the cathedral of the new Birmingham Diocese in 1905 and is one of the only 'parish church cathedral's which hasn't undergone any structural alteration since its change in status. It does still possess the feel of a grand city church, rather than a cathedral in the true sense.
The real treasure of this church however is revealed within, as the interior is dominated by four superb stained glass windows by Edward Burne Jones dating from the 1880s (three in the apse, one at the west end). These are perhaps Burne Jones's finest achievements, and intentionally so, for it was in this very church the artist was baptised.
DRS Class 68 Bo-Bo 68012 has just arrived at Moor Street on 1R21 the 10.10 Chiltern Mainline Silver express from Marylebone.
12th September 2017