Coming out of Birmingham on the 35 or the 50 bus, you go out through Moseley, then through Moseley Village, (which is rather Bohemian and lively, and worth a visit in its own right), before coming into Kings Heath. Kings Heath was once a village, which slowly got swallowed up by the expanding conurbation of [...]
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Kings Heath - metropolitan village
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Birmingham - jewel of the Midlands
June 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Probably well off the tourist trail is the industrial city of Birmingham in the Midlands, which is affectionately known simply as “Brum”, and is a thriving multicultural metropolis.
Birmingham started out as a small Anglo-Saxon farming village dating back to the 7th century, and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. By the [...]
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Doing art at university – The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery opens at The University of Leeds
March 15th, 2008 · No Comments
If you happen to find yourself in Leeds, in the north of England, this month, and you love art, then you are in for a real treat: on 6th March the University of Leeds Art Gallery, located in the University’s iconic Parkinson Building, re-opened as The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, showcasing a dazzling collection [...]
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London - the great metropolis
December 14th, 2007 · No Comments
What better place to start a trip around the planet than London? There is so much to see and do in London that you could spend months here, and still have something new to do each day.
London has some iconic sights which are famous the world over, such as Trafalgar Square, overlooked by lions on [...]
