comment on the news of the day & other things
Birmingham photographer Karen Strunks has been running a project for a while going round Birmingham at 4am. She recently had the idea to open it out to everybody, with the interesting twist of making it 4am on 4 April. So at the appointed hour a group of about 30 of us met at the Bull sculpture in Birmingham City Centre for a photo walk to New Street Station, then on to the Wholesale Markets.
Here are my pictures:
The event became a global phenomenon, with over 1300 images taken!
“The Bullring Shopping Centre was today revealed as one of 26 possible terror targets in Birmingham and the West Midlands. The report warned that Birmingham was the first British city targeted by al-Qaida, after jobless waiter Moinul Abedin planned to bomb the city centre”. Apart from the fact that it doesn’t take Columbo to work [...]
Quick snaps of a demonstration between BNP members and anti-fascist trade union activists in Victoria Square, Birmingham, taking place this morning:
I’ve already written about how I’m not entirely convinced about the proposed new location of the Academy rock venue, but at the same time pointing out the uncharitable attitudes of some of the people they will be neighbours to once they’ve moved. Another perhaps-soon-to-be neighbour has managed to secure a court appearance in order to [...]
“Nearly ten times more people visited the Emirates Airline-sponsored beach, in Chamberlain Square, over the weekend of July 12 and 13 compared to last year. The weekend’s 9,577 visitors also smashed the previous visitor record”. Remind me, what was the weather like this time last year? Another one in our ongoing series of articles from [...]
“BIRMINGHAM’S historic John F Kennedy memorial is now being touted to a second major developer after being rejected by the city’s Irish Quarter. The mosaic, in storage since being removed from St Chad’s Circus two years ago, is now being offered to Kuwaiti property developer Salhia to include in its plans for the Beorma Quarter, [...]
Reports are flying today through the twitosphere & the blogosphere about some less than community minded behaviour on the part of the Surface Unsigned Festival of rock bands taking place in Birmingham at the Rainbow & the Medicine Bar. This is basically a ‘battle of the bands’ competition, but it turns out that each band [...]
“Hundreds of homeowners deterred from having dropped kerbs fitted outside their homes because of the sky-high council cost have been thrown a lifeline” – what’s happenning is the council’s monopoly on doing the work is going to be ended, and people will be able to choose from a list of 11 preferred contractors to do [...]
“When the police arrived, the things they saw and the things they took photos of all point (to) the very obvious truth that Cuddles was a brothel” – so said the counsel for the prosecution in the trial of the Mister Big behind the notorious Bearwood ‘sauna’. What astounds me is that it apparently took [...]
The story of the current owners of the HP Sauce brand, Heinz, preparing to close the factory at Aston Cross (which you can see on the side of the Aston Distressway^WExpressway on the way into Birmingham from the M6) where it has been made for the last 100 years has been gripping the Birmingham media [...]
You’ve heard of ‘Wife Swap’, how about ‘Prime Minister Swap’. It transpires that at this moment, whilst Tony Blair is on holiday in Barbados, the prime minister of Barbados is not only on holiday over here, but actually having his honeymoon here in Birmingham! “Britain is as good a place as any to have a [...]
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