1862 – Birmingham Exchange Buildings
From The Building News, August 22, 1862: The Assembly Room is 70 ft. by 40 ft.
From The Building News, August 22, 1862: The Assembly Room is 70 ft. by 40 ft.
Belonging to the Shirley family for hundreds of years, in 1858, Evelyn Philip Shirley, “finding the property in much need of repair”,
From The Building News, June 6, 1862: Our principal illustration this week represents some projected Church schools at West Bromwich.
The new house of 1862 was built in practically the same position as the old with stables,
Now part of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, the Royal Infirmary at Hartshill was one of the earliest hospitals to be built on the pavilion system favoured by Florence Nightingale.
Commissioned by a Major Seel, it cost him £27,000, an enormous sum in those days.
From The Architect and Contract Reporter, April 17 1869: This building is announced to be opened on tho _’
Altar Window designed by T. Willement and published in The Building News,
North east view published in The Building News, August 11th 1871. A site of a Cluniac monastery -he monastic buildings were demolished in 1850 to make way for a large Victorian manor house designed by Richard Norman Shaw.
Competition entry for new Law Courts, Judges Lodgings & Municipal Buildings. Perspective view & ground plan published in The Building News,