05/05/09 - Birmingham Museums Collection

Added an article and photo gallery covering the Birmingham City Council Museums Collection at Dollman Street, Nechells.

03/05/09 - Cryer

Article added on cult Birmingham hard rock band Cryer.

02/05/09 - The Starfighters

Added an article on Birmingham rock band the Starfighters and the Pits rehearsal rooms they ran.

14/04/09 - Mixed Bag

Articles added on Birmingham Assay Office, Birmingham School of Art in Margaret Street, Woodview Estate regeneration in Edgbaston and the former Futurist Cinema in John Bright Street.

13/04/09 - Museum Remembered

Added an article on the much-lamented Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry on Newhall Street and Birmingham Stock Exchange in Margaret Street.

10/04/09 - Clubland Explored

As an Easter bank holiday treat I took myself and camera around the City Centre for a few hours and took well over 300 photographs for the site.  The first batch I’ve got around to writing content for have now been uploaded and cover Edward’s Number 8, Edward’s Number 7, Boogies/Rebecca’s nightclub, Goldwyn’s nightclub, Paramount and Abigail’s dining and cabaret club along with The Grapes on Hill Street:  links to these articles can be found under the ‘Birmingham Leisure’ category on the Categories menu.

22/03/09 - Content Added

For the 20th anniversary of the end of my employment there, I have added an article recounting the Edward’s Number 8 Rock Complex night club.

15/03/09 -Guestbook Added

Made a few cosmetic tweaks to the site and added a Guestbook for those who wish to leave a message/comment but don’t necessarily want to comment on a particular article.

14/03/09 - Content Added

Added a number of articles to the Industry and Housing sections and started the Leisure section with an article recounting my introduction to the Birmingham night club and pub scene during the 1980s.

12/03/09 - Site Launched

The draft version of the website has ben launched and now it’s just a matter of writing as many posts as possible to get some worthwhile content onto the site: this means many hours of image editing and writing but hopefully when the site gets picked up by the search engines and I can get around to some search engine optimisation, readers will begin to add content to and it will develop into a useful resource.