Not the 35th anniversary – slideshow
4 selections of photos from long, and not so long, ago. Plus some of the photos we have from the beginning of the restoration. 1 2 3 4 Some of the pictures from before the restoration.
“As steals the morn….”
a morning meditation piece As steals the morn upon the night And melts the shades away: So Truth does Fancy’s charm dissolve And rising Reason puts to flight The fumes that did the mind involve Restoring intellectual day. Written and first performed in February 1740. So cold that February, apparently, that the theatre owners had…
Hall, Church and Gardens tours
Birmingham Heritage Week this year runs from the 8th -18th September. So full of heritage is the Second City that it extends, by 7 days, the dates of the National Heritage Open Days . This year we are working with St Mary and St Margaret’s Church and the hotel at Castle Bromwich Hall to offer visitors…
A bit of Castle Bromwich Hall Garden History
Just the other day over on our Facebook Page, North Arden Local History Society left a post for us with this photograph. This is Peter Clarke, first head gardener at Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens in 1985, the year the gardens reopened. The Photograph from the Birmingham Mail… I wonder. Does anyone remember the gardens back…