Austin Village walking tour in Birmingham Heritage Week
A walk through Austin Village during Birmingham Heritage Week — the WWI-era houses built for Herbert Austin’s workforce, and the stories that bring them to life.
Read story →Places
Find stories by where they were made. Start on the map, then drill into Birmingham, Warwickshire or beyond.
Story map
Start with the story map
This is the Places experience: an interactive map of the archive. Pan, zoom, and open pins. Stories is for reading; Places is for exploring geography.
Use the controls on the map to zoom, filter area, and open stories. Prefer fullscreen?
- 01 Choose an area West Midlands, UK, or everywhere.
- 02 Tap a pin Clusters open into individual story locations.
- 03 Read the story Jump from the map into the journal, and related prints.
Regions
Jump to a region
Open a hub for a shortlist, or jump straight onto the map filtered to that area.
Beyond
Further journeys: travel, cities and places outside the Midlands base.
From the archive
Recent place stories
A few recent journeys. Open a hub or the map for more.
Return to 16 Acre Wood – clearance of trees and HS2 progress
A year on from my last visit, 16 Acre Wood shows tree clearance, drought-stressed ponds and the steady advance of HS2’s rail works.
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Beer day, photographing the Devon Seaside
Beer is a picturesque seaside village where we spent a day of our holidays. You will realise from my previous blog that the family enjoyed visiting nearby Sidmouth. The seaside town of Sidmouth has the Esplanade and the Peak. I spent a…
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