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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/southwestrailways/">Robert Sherwood</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>7029 Clun Castle and 45596 Bahamas haul 1Z48 16:38 Plymouth to Birmingham New Street 'Mayflower' charter past Langford Bridge on Saturday 6th September 2025</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54770455442/" title="Newhall Street Tavern - Shuffle Club"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54770455442_60f38af21d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Newhall Street Tavern - Shuffle Club" /></a></p>

<p>Venue changes again on Newhall Street in the Colmore BID.<br />
<br />
<br />
Newhall Street Tavern - Shuffle Club.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II Listed Building<br />
<br />
<a href="https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101276203-the-scottish-mutual-assurance-society-building-ladywood-ward#.XALb6uKYSUk" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building</a><br />
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<br />
Listing Text<br />
<br />
The following building shall be added to the list;<br />
<br />
BIRMINGHAM EDMUND STREET<br />
SP 0687 SE<br />
Numbers 106-110,<br />
The Scottish Mutual<br />
Assurance Society Building<br />
29/10012<br />
(including number,<br />
29 Newhall Street)<br />
II<br />
GV<br />
Office building. Dated 1895; altered C20. By Frank Barlow Osbourne for<br />
W H Smythe, Solictors. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings; blue<br />
tile roof. 4 storeys with cellars; 4:1:4 bays wrapped around corner<br />
of Newhall Street and Edmund Street; asymmetrical. In simplified<br />
Flemish Revival style. Altered ground floor with corner entrance and<br />
separate entrances to 29 Newhall Street and 110 Edmund Street. Across<br />
each upper floor is a continuous balcony with wrought-iron balustrade<br />
set on the corbelled ashlar cornice of the floor below. Moulded sill<br />
bands; cross windows with chamfered ashlar dressings in brick<br />
surrounds.<br />
Newhall Street front: bay 3 projects and has a canted bay window on<br />
first and second floors, the side-lights with transoms only;<br />
projection narrows on the third floor its window flanked by C-scrolls<br />
and by brick pilasters which rise through a string course and 2<br />
cornices to a shaped gable with kneelers, copings and ball finial;<br />
above the window is a decorative ashlar panel. The flanking bays are<br />
recessed but otherwise treated in similar manner whilst bay 1 is<br />
narrower projection with cross window to each floor and simpler gable.<br />
Main ridge has broad, corniced transverse stack and matching coaxial<br />
stack. Corner bay has rounded turret with curved cross-window to each<br />
floor and 4-light mullioned opening to void beneath octagonal ogee<br />
dome set on a corbel table.<br />
Edmund Street front: generally treated as Newhall Street front but<br />
with broad gable on left which projects and has cross-windows to each<br />
floor flanked by brick pilasters and by transomed single-light<br />
windows. Beneath first floor window is a carved ashlar panel with<br />
monogram and date '1895'; cornice above third floor surmounted by<br />
small ashlar pediment; 2-light window within the gable. Transverse<br />
ridge stacks as before.<br />
Important city centre location. Noteworthy roofscape.<br />
<br />
Listing NGR: SP0674487088<br />
<br />
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ell-r-brown/">ell brown</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771533059/" title="Cylla - 43 Newhall Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771533059_729dd29859_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Cylla - 43 Newhall Street" /></a></p>

<p>Venue changes again on Newhall Street in the Colmore BID.<br />
<br />
<br />
Cylla - 43 Newhall Street. Was formerly All Bar One.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II Listed Building<br />
<br />
<a href="https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101343087-cornwall-buildings-ladywood-ward#.YpJoyGfMJD8" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Cornwall Buildings</a><br />
<br />
Description<br />
<br />
NEWHALL STREET<br />
1.<br />
5104<br />
(north-east side)<br />
City Centre B3<br />
Nos 43 to 51 (odd)<br />
(Cornwall Buildings)<br />
SP 0687 SE 29/30<br />
II GV<br />
2.<br />
Late C19. Brick and terracotta; slate roof. Four storeys; 4 bays, the outer<br />
2 advanced and with shaped gables, the inner 2 taller, with canted bay window<br />
running through first and second floors and with Dutch gables, plus, on the<br />
corner, a polygonal turret with little dome. The fenestration all by sash<br />
windows with glazing bars only in the upper sashes except at third floor level.<br />
The windows are in variously treated terracotta surrounds. Between the gables<br />
flat-topped dormer window in the roof.<br />
<br />
Listing NGR: SP0671087142</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ell-r-brown/">ell brown</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771300291/" title="Cylla - 43 Newhall Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771300291_9cf51a31db_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Cylla - 43 Newhall Street" /></a></p>

<p>Venue changes again on Newhall Street in the Colmore BID.<br />
<br />
<br />
Cylla - 43 Newhall Street. Was formerly All Bar One.<br />
<br />
<br />
Grade II Listed Building<br />
<br />
<a href="https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101343087-cornwall-buildings-ladywood-ward#.YpJoyGfMJD8" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Cornwall Buildings</a><br />
<br />
Description<br />
<br />
NEWHALL STREET<br />
1.<br />
5104<br />
(north-east side)<br />
City Centre B3<br />
Nos 43 to 51 (odd)<br />
(Cornwall Buildings)<br />
SP 0687 SE 29/30<br />
II GV<br />
2.<br />
Late C19. Brick and terracotta; slate roof. Four storeys; 4 bays, the outer<br />
2 advanced and with shaped gables, the inner 2 taller, with canted bay window<br />
running through first and second floors and with Dutch gables, plus, on the<br />
corner, a polygonal turret with little dome. The fenestration all by sash<br />
windows with glazing bars only in the upper sashes except at third floor level.<br />
The windows are in variously treated terracotta surrounds. Between the gables<br />
flat-topped dormer window in the roof.<br />
<br />
Listing NGR: SP0671087142</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ell-r-brown/">ell brown</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771512978/" title="VITA STUDENT from Edgbaston Street"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771512978_4fcba66506_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="VITA STUDENT from Edgbaston Street" /></a></p>

<p>VITA STUDENT from Edgbaston Street.<br />
<br />
<br />
It's on Suffolk Street Queensway, but that's Smallbrook Queensway up above.<br />
<br />
<br />
McAleer & Rushe</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771207111/" title="Lawley Middleway Bridge and Bellingham Bridge from HS2"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771207111_0e96bb346f_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Lawley Middleway Bridge and Bellingham Bridge from HS2" /></a></p>

<p>Lawley Middleway Bridge and Bellingham Bridge from HS2.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 24 Hour Route ramps views down to Moor Street Queensway.<br />
<br />
<br />
That's Birmingham Moor Street Station on the right.<br />
<br />
And the Curzon No 3. Viaduct's in front.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771397334/" title="Beorma Quarter and Selfridges before the Parametric Bridge"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771397334_a68ce4605c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Beorma Quarter and Selfridges before the Parametric Bridge" /></a></p>

<p>Beorma Quarter and Selfridges before the Parametric Bridge.<br />
<br />
<br />
View from the no 50 bus as it turned from Moor Street onto Park Street.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771361499/" title="Crane removal on Bradford Street in Digbeth"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771361499_770d5b41ae_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Crane removal on Bradford Street in Digbeth" /></a></p>

<p>Crane removal on Bradford Street in Digbeth.<br />
<br />
I was getting the 50 bus to Kings Heath, and it went on a diversion as part of Bradford Street was closed for a mobile crane to dismantle a tower crane.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771424965/" title="Platforms at Kings Heath Station"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771424965_177eb51325_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Platforms at Kings Heath Station" /></a></p>

<p>Platforms at Kings Heath Station.<br />
<br />
<br />
Close up zoom ins from the 50 bus over the High Street Bridge.<br />
<br />
Always workers in orange high vis on Sunday's here.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/54771288798/" title="The ex Burtons building in Acocks Green Village now Wingstar"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771288798_95f2655873_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The ex Burtons building in Acocks Green Village now Wingstar" /></a></p>

<p>In Acocks Green Village, waiting for the no 4 bus on Warwick Road.<br />
<br />
Was trying to rain.<br />
<br />
<br />
The ex Burtons building.<br />
<br />
<br />
Wingstar temporary closed for a refurb.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/steve_franklin_images/">Steve Franklin Images</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_franklin_images/54770045667/" title="300042 Avanti West Coast Class 805 Evero train arriving at New Street Station, Birmingham, United Kingdom"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54770045667_a597655a89_m.jpg" width="240" height="156" alt="300042 Avanti West Coast Class 805 Evero train arriving at New Street Station, Birmingham, United Kingdom" /></a></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/steve_franklin_images/">Steve Franklin Images</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_franklin_images/54771132603/" title="300043 Avanti West Coast Class 805 Evero train at New Street Station, Birmingham, United Kingdom"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54771132603_d27cac8054_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="300043 Avanti West Coast Class 805 Evero train at New Street Station, Birmingham, United Kingdom" /></a></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/class_58050_toton_traction_depot/">58 023 'Peterborough Depot'</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/rickerail/">REBAWAY</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rickerail/54769865197/" title="GWR GLORY"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54769865197_65e0a4a459_m.jpg" width="240" height="143" alt="GWR GLORY" /></a></p>

<p>GWR loco No 7812 'Erlestoke Manor from the Severn Valley railway can be seen inside the shed under contract to Tyseley undergoing an overhaul</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/amthomson/">Aidan McRae Thomson</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/54770137119/" title="Lion of St Mark, Tile Cross"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54770137119_b0b7e06d04_m.jpg" width="163" height="240" alt="Lion of St Mark, Tile Cross" /></a></p>

<p>Our Lady Help of Christians at Kitt's Green in the Tile Cross area of Birmingham is a stunning late 1960s Catholic church by Richard Gilbert Scott and remarkably inventive, on a T-shaped plan with a ribbed roof that curve upwards, rising to form a central tower over the core of the building. Not everyone will find this attractive, but I consider a most impressive piece of architecture. <br />
<br />
This was my second visit and I noticed a distinct change since my last owing to work being done on the copper roof covering, which has returned then intriguing shade of verdigris green which enhances it immensely and contrasts nicely with the more neutral tones of the brick and concrete elements. <br />
<br />
The interior is one of the most dramatic architectural spaces I've seen in a modern church, with the roof of nave and transepts rising to a crescendo forming a towering crossing over the sanctuary, the ribbed ceiling curving away as if it were the fabric of a pitched tent. Copious quantities of stained glass fill the windows and strangely shaped apertures, mostly abstract in form and the work of artist John Chrestien.<br />
<br />
The main worship area forms a T-shaped cross culminating in the angular brick wall behind the altar (as is common in churches of the period this focal point is one of the only walls not pierced by colourful glass!). There is a kind of ambulatory forming narrow side aisles around the interior and two octagonal side chapels flanking the nave, one the baptistery, the other the Lady Chapel with a striking window depicting the winged lion of St Mark, commemorating the Venetian victory at the Battle of Lepanto.<br />
<br />
This is one of the most remarkable modern church buildings I've seen, but alas normally locked so not an easy one to visit unless one is attending Mass or can coincide a visit with service times. My first attempt to visit did got go well but happily this time was much better as I was able to coincide a visit with a friend repairing one of the windows (and also lend a helping hand).<br />
<a href="https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/kitts-green-our-lady-help-of-christians/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">taking-stock.org.uk/building/kitts-green-our-lady-help-of...</a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/amthomson/">Aidan McRae Thomson</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/54769901321/" title="Lion of St Mark, Tile Cross"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54769901321_e32edfd6b9_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Lion of St Mark, Tile Cross" /></a></p>

<p>Our Lady Help of Christians at Kitt's Green in the Tile Cross area of Birmingham is a stunning late 1960s Catholic church by Richard Gilbert Scott and remarkably inventive, on a T-shaped plan with a ribbed roof that curve upwards, rising to form a central tower over the core of the building. Not everyone will find this attractive, but I consider a most impressive piece of architecture. <br />
<br />
This was my second visit and I noticed a distinct change since my last owing to work being done on the copper roof covering, which has returned then intriguing shade of verdigris green which enhances it immensely and contrasts nicely with the more neutral tones of the brick and concrete elements. <br />
<br />
The interior is one of the most dramatic architectural spaces I've seen in a modern church, with the roof of nave and transepts rising to a crescendo forming a towering crossing over the sanctuary, the ribbed ceiling curving away as if it were the fabric of a pitched tent. Copious quantities of stained glass fill the windows and strangely shaped apertures, mostly abstract in form and the work of artist John Chrestien.<br />
<br />
The main worship area forms a T-shaped cross culminating in the angular brick wall behind the altar (as is common in churches of the period this focal point is one of the only walls not pierced by colourful glass!). There is a kind of ambulatory forming narrow side aisles around the interior and two octagonal side chapels flanking the nave, one the baptistery, the other the Lady Chapel with a striking window depicting the winged lion of St Mark, commemorating the Venetian victory at the Battle of Lepanto.<br />
<br />
This is one of the most remarkable modern church buildings I've seen, but alas normally locked so not an easy one to visit unless one is attending Mass or can coincide a visit with service times. My first attempt to visit did got go well but happily this time was much better as I was able to coincide a visit with a friend repairing one of the windows (and also lend a helping hand).<br />
<a href="https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/kitts-green-our-lady-help-of-christians/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">taking-stock.org.uk/building/kitts-green-our-lady-help-of...</a></p>

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