Hidden Spaces: Subterranean Birmingham – exploring the world beneath our feet

Original web page at birnews.com Birmingham’s sandstone bedrock is too fragile to support extensive tunnelling – it is one reason the city doesn’t have an underground transport system. Nonetheless, we have carved beneath the city an invisible network of service tunnels, subways, crypts, catacombs, bomb shelters, cellars, mine shafts, railway lines and roads. It […]

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Garden of Memory plans for Jewellery Quarter cemeteries

Original web page at www.birmingham-jewellery-quarter.net Warstone Lane and Key Hill Cemetry are now among other Jewellery Quarter sites to be optioned for a transformation. These catacombs can be seen at Warstone Lane Cemetery. Well, we say transformation but it’s more like an additional feature. Plans have been submitted for both of the cemeteries, that […]…

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