The ultimate insider’s guide to Birmingham, bringing together the best hidden gems from the worlds of food, drink, nature, culture and more. All the inspiration you need to explore the city can be found right here…
Plastic gets a bad rap these days. A once-miracle material has now infiltrated everywhere from outer space to our very blood, and it’s not even 200 years old yet (that’s less than 0.1% of the lifespan of...
When you’re standing in the shadow of a towering figure like William Morris, it can be hard to find yourself ever in the sunshine. But Edward Burne-Jones—also a member of the Birmingham Set, founder of Mo...
Moseley Road Baths has been teaching Birmingham residents to swim since 1907. Consisting of two major pools and three ‘slipper’ baths, it continuously hosted swimming for over a century until its closure...
We have Alfred Bird’s wife’s egg allergy to thank for the iconic Bird’s Custard. Seemingly, the Birmingham chemist refused to go without his favourite apple crumble topping, as he set about inventing eggl...
If you’ve got a burning question about Birmingham that needs answering, then ask Carl Chinn. Proud Brummie and descendant of a real-life Peaky Blinders gangster, the legendary Birmingham historian has dedi...
In the shadow of Birmingham’s most iconic landmarks sit the city’s most humble houses: Birmingham Back to Backs—the city’s last surviving court of back-to-back houses preserved in time. But the homes loca...
Digbeth is full of historic boozers, so it probably won’t mind missing one. The Golden Lion Inn was originally built around 1600 on Deritend High Street, but when threatened by demolition in 1911, the Gra...
The next time you find yourself at the new Paradise development, you may spot the Portland stone statue, standing at 5.5 metres tall, and wonder: Who is that? Let me tell you—this man might not just be one...
Did you know that beneath the bustling surface of modern Birmingham lies a quiet, hidden world woven with Cold War secrets, postal history, and local lore? While today’s Birmingham is a fast-paced urban c...
While the Dhamma Talaka Pagoda can’t quite match the magnitude of the Shwedagon—the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, which is home to relics of four previous Buddhas—faithful recreation provides a...