A Brummie's Guide to Birmingham

The Lapworth Museum of Geology  is located in the Aston Webb  building at the University of Birmingham, where it forms a key part of the Ea...

"Sir Edward Elgar, composer, became the University's first Professor of Music in 1905"

I did it! I found another one! I knew there was a glacial erratic somewhere on the University of Birmingham main Edgbaston campus, but I w...

This walk heads south, from the University of Birmingham to Stirchley, along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The walk took me about an h...

"University of Birmingham. Charles Lapworth, undertook pioneering work into the formation of mountain belts, 1882-1883" He a...

"His Majesty King Edward VII opened these buildings July 7th 1909, and concluded his address thus; 'To you the students I s...

"University of Birmingham. Frederick Shotton. Furthered understanding of climate change 1949-1974" On the wall outside the L...

"John Henry Poynting. First Professor of Physics; determined the mass of the earth in Birmingham in 1890"

I visited Winterbourne House and Garden on June 10 th , as part of the University of Birmingham’s ‘Community Day’, with my sister. We had ...

Old Joe is the clocktower at the University of Birmingham’s main Edgbaston campus. I can remember staring at this clock when I was a child...