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Plans for Digbeth
Birmingham City Council has made some important decisions regarding the future of Digbeth recently, with development plans for currently unused buildings being approved. Harrison Drape An application...
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Metro Consultation for Digbeth
Centro is planning an extension to the Metro network, to link the HS2 terminus at New Canal Street with a proposed new multi-storey car park at Adderley Street. It is expected that up to 12,000 people...
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Lloyds of Birmingham – and Digbeth
Sampson Lloyd's house at 18 Park Street (click for larger view) The lovely Kate Gordon sent me a link to a somewhat interesting book some time ago, entitled: The Lloyds of Birmingham, with some account...
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The Old Crown, 1931
In celebration of the new year, we thought it would be apt to take a look into the Digbeth photo archives… Trevor Cobden, a friend of Digbeth Residents Association, recently sent us this photo of The...
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Gangs of Digbeth Tour
Back in May 2013, Dr Chris Upton gave a free tour of Digbeth documenting its dark history of gangs. Chris, who consulted on the hugely popular Peaky Blinders TV series, a Digbeth favourite, is an...
View ArticleBirmingham Smithfield
Birmingham Smithfield is the name of the new development planned for the Wholesale Markets site once it is relocated to Witton. Covering 14 hectares, this is a huge part of the city centre; Birmingham...
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Introducing Fabrick Square
Work at the Harrison Drape redevelopment is moving apace, with demolition work in progress. You can see more images of the work from Elliott R Brown on Flickr: Image: Elliot R Brown. More details have...
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New Peaky Tours
Local historian Carl Chinn has launched 90-minute guided walking tours around Digbeth, sharing the real stories from the days of the Peaky Blinders. The Peaky Tours (a name coined by myself I may add)...
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Things Digbeth Gave the World: Brylcreem
Paradise Circus recently compiled their list of 101 things Birmingham gave the world into a fantastic – trust me on that one – book. We have our fair share of iconic brands in Digbeth, including Typhoo...
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The Emporium
Those of you familiar with Digbeth will know the Christopher Wray building, located on the outskirts of Eastside City Park on Bartholomew Row. Established while he was pursuing acting work, Wray...
View ArticleA Love Letter to Digbeth
A few weeks ago, Independent Birmingham published a blog entitled A Love Letter to Digbeth, and the Twittersphere went mad for Dave Musson’s fantastic photography of our little part of the world. See...
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Today’s HS2 Event
Originally written by Umar Hassan for Digbeth is Good: Businesses and residents from Digbeth and the West Midlands attended today’s information event to learn how HS2 would impact the area. Jonathan...
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Sunflowers and Poppies
Birmingham Friends of the Earth volunteers sometimes engage in a spot of guerilla gardening, fighting the endless battle with concrete by planting seeds in neglected places. One of these such places is...
View ArticleDoorstep History
TNT, a local production company and social enterprise, are responsible for filming the series Doorstep History, which is broadcast on Birmingham’s very own Big Centre TV. In one of the most recent...
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Free State of Digbeth
Those of us that use Digbeth as an adjective (including me), know that there is such as thing as a Digbeth way of thinking. This is usually seen as lunacy from those on the outside, but those in the...
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The White Swan: Then and Now
The White Swan on Bradford Street is a firm favourite pub with the real ale crowd. Its fantastic tiled interior has been beautifully preserved for decades, but that’s not the only thing that has...
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Beorma Rising
After more than five years waiting, it seems the 30-storey tower of the Beorma Quarter will rise in 2016, following unanimous support by the council’s planning committee earlier this month. This second...
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Positively Birmingham
After a break of 12 years, and 21 years since it was first published, the contemporary photographic ode to our city, Positively Birmingham, returns for a fifth edition. Positively Birmingham is a...
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Eagle and Tun Reopens
The Eagle and Tun is as much a part of the Digbeth landscape as our other pubs. Sadly, it has been closed for a number of years and is mooted to be demolished as part of plans for HS2. However, with...
View ArticleAn Ode to Digbeth
We recently came across a local poet, Sean Farrell, who is making humorous tongue-in-cheek documentaries of Birmingham via the medium of poetry. The final collection will cover around fifty different...
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