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Birmingham Children's Hospital

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a specialist children's hospital located in Birmingham, England. The hospital provides a range of specialist services and operates the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for the city. The service operates as part of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. History The hospital was founded by Thomas Pretious Heslop as the Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children at 138–9 Steelhouse Lane in 1862. It moved to a new site on Ladywood Middleway in 1917. In March 1986, a charity concert was held called "Heart Beat 86" at the nearby National Exhibition Centre, featuring George Harrison, which raised money for the hospital. In October 1998 the hospital returned to Steelhouse Lane, to the buildings previously used by the Birmingham General Hospital, as the Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital – in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died the year before. The opening ceremony was carried out by the Queen. In 2007, a new extension designed by RPS Group was opened. The extension created a burns unit, one of three such centres of excellence in the country. As well as this, it established an outpatients department, a neonatal ward, a burns operating theatre, as well as additional classrooms for the Education Centre, allowing children to continue their education whilst undergoing medium to long-term care in the hospital. Facilities The trust led a consortium of organisations called Forward Thinking Birmingham commissioned to provide mental health services for young people in the city up to the age of 25 from April 2016. Services for adults were previously provided by Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. In 1970, surgeons completed the first separation of conjoined twins at the hospital. Management The hospital was managed by the Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust until 2017 when it merged with the Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create the Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. Performance The trust was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3236 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.39%. 89% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 74% recommended it as a place to work. The Trust's Professor Anita Macdonald, Consultant Paediatric Dietitian was awarded an OBE for services to Dietetics in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015. In 2016, it became the first children's hospital to be rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. See also Healthcare in West Midlands List of hospitals in England List of NHS trusts References External links Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust the Birmingham Children's Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 (Statutory Instrument assigning name)
Birmingham Central Synagogue

The Birmingham Central Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4 Speedwell Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham, in the West Midlands region of England, in the United Kingdom. The congregation, established in 1894, worships in the Ashkenazi rite. History The community was established in a private house at 30 Holloway Head in 1884 before moving to Wrottesley Street in 1901 and then to Bristol Street in 1928, taking over a former Methodist Hall. In 1961 a small group of individuals acquired the large plot of land upon which a synagogue, hall and classrooms were built at 133 Pershore Road. The ground breaking ceremony took place in July 1958. Construction of the 1960s building took place between 1959 and 1961. The congregation voted to sell the Pershore Road shul in 2010. For the next few years the congregation waited for planning permission from both Birmingham City Council and Calthorpe Estates. Redevelopment of the Malcolm Locker Hall into the new synagogue began in January 2013. Work was completed in July 2013, with the handover taking place in August 2013. Of the 42 etched glass windows in the old building, only six could be saved (and were installed in the new shul). The other 36 were to be sold (some broke when they were removed). From August 2013 the old building was in the hands of the developers, who had to first remove asbestos. The old shul building was completely demolished during October 2013. The developers, Seddon, built a 70-bed care home for Gracewell Healthcare on the former synagogue site. Current synagogue The current synagogue at 4 Speedwell Road is located adjacent to the site of the former Pershore Road building, now an agreed care facility. Services began in August 2013. By September, the new ark was installed in time for the High Holy Days. The new Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis consecrated the new building by unveiling a plaque on Sunday 13 October 2013. Rabbi Chanan Atlas was appointed minister of the shul in early 2012 taking over from Rabbi Shlomo Odze. Rabbi Atlas and his family left Birmingham, to take up a new position in Manchester. In May 2015 he was replaced by Rabbi Dr Lior Kaminetsky, who along with his family stayed for four years until May 2019. Rabbi Yossi Hambling was appointed rabbi from July 2021. The Induction of Rabbi Hambling took place in March 2022 by the Chief Rabbi. Gallery See also History of the Jews in England List of Jewish communities in the United Kingdom List of synagogues in the United Kingdom References External links Official website Photos of the shul windows Photos of the Chief Rabbi consecrating the new shul
Birmingham Guild of Handicraft

Birmingham Guild of Handicraft was an Arts and Crafts organisation operating in Birmingham, England, established at the end of the 19th century. History The Guild began as a loose part of the Birmingham Kyrle Society, then became a more fully formed group within the Kyrle Society in 1890, under the leadership of the silversmith and architect Arthur Stansfeld Dixon (1856–1929) and with the lawyer Montague Fordham as first director, in Vittoria Street School for jewellers and silversmiths, Hockley. It was modelled on Charles Robert Ashbee's London-based Guild and School of Handicraft, founded in 1888, but like that body found itself in financial difficulties owing to high running costs and a lack of money-making ventures. In 1895, the Guild set up as an independent workshop and limited company under the guidance of Edward R. Taylor, who was an important figure in the history of Birmingham School of Art. William Kenrick, the local MP and an Arts and Crafts enthusiast, became a director. The Guild's first address was at Kyrle Hall, Sheep Street, the same studios later being taken over by John Paul Cooper. In 1898, the Guild moved to 44–5 Great Charles Street. The Guild produced furniture and metalware, taking particular advantage of the switch to electric lighting and the consequent need for new light fittings. Arthur Dixon was the chief designer and head of the metalwork workshop. Other members were Albert Edward Jones and Thomas Birkett. Bernard Sleigh was a teacher at the Guild. The Guild ran a London showroom, headed by Martin Muir, at 7 Newman Street, Oxford Square. Under commercial pressure, the Guild merged with E. & R. Gittins in 1905, which brought Llewelyn Roberts into the organisation. In 1919, there was a further merger with Hart, Son & Peard. The name was still shown in directories until 1950 as "The Birmingham Guild Ltd., Architectural & Decorative Metalworkers", the addresses being Grosvenor Road West and Sherbourne St., B16. Publications The Guild also published fine books under the imprint of the "Press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, Limited"; and a periodical titled The Quest. The Quest began in November 1894 and aimed to appear three times a year, but was short-lived. William Morris was a contributor. Those involved with the press were Ernest Treglown, Arthur Gaskin, and Charles March Gere. Charles Carr and Mary Newill were book illustrators for the Guild. The press was still active in 1919, when it published Memorials: The Work of the Architect and Craftsman in the Design and Execution of War Memorials. Motto The Guild's motto was "By Hammer and Hand". Further reading Crawford, Alan (1984). By Hammer and Hand: Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham. Birmingham: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. ISBN 9780709301196. External links Birmingham Guild - WayBack Machine
Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park

Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, formerly Birmingham Nature Centre, and before that Birmingham Zoo, is a small zoo on the edge of Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, England. It is owned and managed by Birmingham City Council. As well as catering to tourists and locals, the zoo is actively involved in many scientific programmes, such as the EEP captive breeding programmes with endangered animals, helping to highlight the plight of the world's biodiversity through educational talks and campaigns. The zoo is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). History Birmingham Zoo was opened on 1 May 1964 by the Dudley Zoological Society, within Cannon Hill Park. The site of the park was once part of a 16th-century fulling mill, known as Pebble Mill. It was designed to exhibit mainly young animals, but it also housed Dudley Zoo's collection of monkeys and two dromedaries for rides. Once described as a little gem of a zoo, it closed in 1973 for unknown reasons. It was reopened in 1974 by Birmingham City Council as the Birmingham Nature Centre. The centre and its entrance were originally part of the Birmingham Natural History Museum. In 2014 it was rebranded as Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. Earlier zoos Birmingham has had a number of zoos over the years. The first was the Birmingham and Midlands Zoological Gardens in Balsall Heath, opened in 1873. The second was Aston Lower Grounds Menagerie in Aston, opened in 1880. The last was Birmingham Zoo, which opened in 1910 but closed in 1930. There was also said to be a travelling menagerie, named J. E. James's Menagerie. Animals The zoo features mainly small mammals. Its occupants include: Red pandas The nature centre used to have a pair of male red pandas. However these have been re-housed as part of the national breeding programme. Ming Ming is visiting a female red panda in the Welsh Mountain Zoo. Babu is a red panda who escaped twice in less than four days from the nature centre in late 2005. He was found in a neighboring garden less than a day after his first escape and was on the loose for four days after his second. Nature centre staff believe he was blown out of a tree or had leapt to another tree when exhibit trees were swaying from wind. His second disappearance and the citywide panda hunt that ensued made national headlines. After being discovered in a tree, Babu was reunited with his brother Tensing live on Midlands Today. Notes External links Official website BBC "Red panda pair come out of hiding " 15 October 2003 Red Panda Breeding Program
Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park

Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park is een kleine dierentuin in Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, Engeland. Eerdere namen van het park waren Birmingham Zoo en Birmingham Nature Centre. Het is eigendom van en wordt beheerd door Birmingham City Council. Geschiedenis Birmingham Zoo werd in Cannon Hill Park geopend op 1 mei 1964 door de Dudley Zoological Society. De locatie van het park was ooit deel van een zestiende-eeuwse volmolen, Pebble Mill. Het werd ontworpen om voornamelijk jonge dieren te laten zien, maar het huisvestte ook de apencollectie en de twee dromedarissen van Dudley Zoo. In 1973 werd het park gesloten om onbekende redenen. Het werd in 1974 heropend door de Birmingham City Council onder de naam Birmingham Nature Centre. Het park en zijn ingang waren oorspronkelijk onderdeel van het Birmingham Natural History Museum. In 2014 werd de naam veranderd in de huidige: Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. Andere dierentuinen Over de jaren zijn er meer dierentuinen geweest in Birmingham. De eerste was Birmingham and Midlands Zoological Gardens, dat geopend werd in 1873 in Balsall Heath. In 1880 werd de Aston Lower Grounds Menagerie geopend in Aston. De laatste was Birmingham Zoo, dat in 1910 werd geopend, maar in 1930 alweer werd gesloten. Ook zijn er verhalen over een reizende menagerie: J. E. James's Menagerie. Dieren De dierentuin houdt voornamelijk kleinere dieren, onder andere: Fokprogramma's Het park neemt deel aan meerdere internationale fokprogramma's en coördineert en beheert de EEP-stamboeken voor het witoorzijdeaapje en het geelkoppenseelaapje. Galerij
Birmingham School of Art

La Birmingham School of Art era una scuola d'arte comunale con sede nel centro di Birmingham, in Inghilterra. Sebbene l'istituzione sia stata assorbita dal Birmingham Polytechnic nel 1971 e faccia ora parte della Facoltà di Arti, Design e Media della Birmingham City University, il suo edificio classificato di Grado I in Margaret Street rimane la sede del Dipartimento di Belle Arti dell'università ed è ancora comunemente indicato con il suo nome originario. Storia Le origini della Scuola d’Arte risalgono alla Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, che nel 1843 fondò la Birmingham Government School of Design. George Wallis (1811–1891), artista e docente d’arte nato a Wolverhampton, ne fu il preside dal 1852 al 1858. Nel 1877 il Consiglio comunale fu convinto dall’energico preside della scuola, Edward R. Taylor, a rilevarne la gestione e ad ampliarla per dar vita al primo college d’arte municipale del Regno Unito. Grazie ai finanziamenti di Sir Richard e George Tangye, l’attuale edificio fu commissionato all’architetto John Henry Chamberlain. Nel 1885 la scuola divenne la prima Scuola Municipale d’Arte. In seguito divenne il centro di riferimento per il Movimento Arts and Crafts. Nel 1909 fu fondata una Scuola di Architettura annessa, che ottenne il riconoscimento da parte del Royal Institute of British Architects nel 1923. Negli anni ’60 la Scuola era ormai diventata troppo grande per l’edificio originario di Margaret Street e si espanse nel campus dell’Università di Aston a Gosta Green. Nel 1971, con la fondazione del Politecnico di Birmingham, la Scuola d’Arte perse la propria indipendenza e divenne la Facoltà di Arte e Design del Politecnico. Nel 1988 questa, a sua volta, assorbì l’ex Bournville College of Art per formare il Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, il più grande centro di formazione in arte, design e media del Regno Unito al di fuori di Londra. Il Politecnico di Birmingham ottenne lo status di università nel 1992 con il nome di University of Central England, che nel 2007 fu ribattezzata Birmingham City University. L'edificio L'edificio della Birmingham School of Art fu progettato per la scuola d'arte dall'architetto John Henry Chamberlain tra il gennaio 1882 e l'ottobre 1883, e fu costruito dal 31 maggio 1884 fino alla sua inaugurazione nel settembre 1885. Ex studenti Archivi L'archivio della Scuola d'Arte è ora conservato presso la Birmingham City University. La Cadbury Research Library dell'Università di Birmingham conserva materiale relativo al movimento Arts and Crafts che ebbe luogo nella scuola, quando questa era talvolta denominata Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts. Entrambe le collezioni includono esempi dell'influenza di Leonard Jay, che insegnò presso la scuola e ebbe un impatto significativo sulla stampa della metà del XX secolo. Note Altri progetti Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Birmingham School of Art Collegamenti esterni (EN) Sito ufficiale, su bcu.ac.uk. (EN) Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, su www.biad.bcu.ac.uk. URL consultato il 24 luglio 2026 (archiviato dall'url originale l'8 maggio 2015).
Birstall Shopping Park

Birstall Shopping Park is a shopping park located in Birstall, Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It contains a wide variety of retailers and includes the region's only IKEA store. Adjacent is another retail park, Junction 27 Retail Park, specialising in bulky goods and electronics. The section of the park containing retailers Pets at Home and Homesense is known as Spring Ram Retail Park, and was built slightly later than the rest of the complex but is under common ownership. Gallery References External links Official website Archived 16 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Birtles Hall

Birtles Hall is a country house in the parish of Over Alderley, Cheshire, England. It was built in about 1819 for the West Indies merchant Robert Hibbert. The interior of the house was badly damaged by fire in 1938, and it was reconstructed by the Arts and Crafts architect James Henry Sellers. The exterior is constructed in buff ashlar sandstone. The roofs are of Welsh slate, and there are three brick chimneys. The house is in two storeys, with a south front of five bays. Along the top of the south front is a plain frieze and a cornice supporting a balustrade. Protruding from the central bay of the lower storey is a porch with Ionic columns and a balustrade. Figueirdo and Treuherz describe the style as "severe Neoclassical". The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Also listed Grade II are terrace walls in front of the house, and the stable block. See also Listed buildings in Over Alderley References Further reading
Birtsmorton Court

Birtsmorton Court is a Grade I listed fortified medieval moated manor house near Malvern in Worcestershire, in the former woodlands of Malvern Chase. It is located in Birtsmorton, a small agricultural parish 7 miles south-east of Malvern Wells, Worcestershire and 8 miles west of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Etymology The English place name element birt-, which often signifies the birches such as grow in this low-lying site, in this particular case may be a transformation of de Brute, holding the manor under Edward I. History The manor is mentioned in the Domesday Book; the present house, partly half-timbered built on a courtyard plan, is in part of the 13th century. In 1424–25 Birtsmorton became the seat of John Nanfan, who had most of the earlier structure demolished before his death in about 1447. Cardinal Wolsey is an important historical figure, who is also reported to have frequently stayed at the court during his earlier days. The house was remodelled for Giles Nanfan in about 1572, as heraldry in the Great Hall suggests. The Nanfan family retained the Manor until 1771. The last male heir, Bridges Nanfan, left the estate to his daughter Catherine in 1704. She married four times, including to Lord Coote, the Governor of New York, in 1680 and to Admiral William Caldwell in 1702. On the death of Catherine's granddaughter Judith in 1771, the manor passed to the Coote family who sold it in 1779. The present aspect of the house is in part due to antiquarian restoration and emendation by Frederick S. Waller, 1871–72. The east range was destroyed by fire in the 18th century and rebuilt in 1929–30 by A. Hill Parker and Son, in what Brooks and Pevsner called a "successful pastiche". William Huskisson was born at Birtsmorton Court on 11 March 1770 and spent his childhood here until he was 13. The house was a setting for William Samuel Symonds' historical novel Malvern Chase. The house is now privately owned and available for special events. Owners Nigel and Rosalie Dawes (current owners for over 40 years) Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt (b. 1874), the husband (m. 1920) of Lady Norah Beatrice Henriette Spencer-Churchill (1875–1946) References Sources Willis-Bund, J.W.; Page, W.H., eds. (1924). A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4. Victoria County History. pp. 29–33. Retrieved 19 September 2007. External links Media related to Birtsmorton Court at Wikimedia Commons
Bisham Woods

Bisham Woods is an 86-hectare (210-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) west of Cookham in Berkshire. The site is also a Local Nature Reserve and part of Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation. The SSSI is part of a 153.2-hectare (379-acre) site, also called Bisham Woods, which has been owned and managed by the Woodland Trust since 1990. The woods consist of several sections. The northern part is the ancient woodland SSSI, with compartments known as Quarry Wood, Fultness Wood, High Wood and Inkydown Wood. With the River Thames just to the north, and views across the Chiltern Hills, they include beechwoods, with rare woodland orchids. The remaining compartments, including Park Wood, High Wood, Goulding's Wood, Carpenters Wood and Dungrovehill Wood, are areas of 19th- and 20th-century planting noted for bluebells. These are nearer Maidenhead, near the A308 and A404. The woods are open to the public, and are well served with paths and bridleways, with parking nearby. Quarry Wood is the site of Bisham Quarry, an important medieval source of stone, much of which was used to build Windsor Castle. From medieval times the woods were part of the extensive Bisham Estates of the Earls of Salisbury. An ice house, built in the 1760s to provide ice for Bisham Abbey, is within the woods, and opened to the public four times a year. The woods are the original 'Wild Wood' in Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows, which he wrote in the nearby village of Cookham Dean. Percy Bysshe Shelley composed The Revolt of Islam in the area of Bisham Woods in 1817 when he was living at Marlow. A memorial in Carpenters Wood commemorates the crash site of a Halifax Bomber from the Royal Air Force 578 Squadron, on 18 July 1944. The memorial was dedicated on 18 July 1998. See also List of ancient woods in England List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire References External links English Nature website (SSSI information) Bisham Woods on the VisitWoods website Woodland Trust Management Plan 2009-2014
Bishop's Palace (Wells)

Bishop's Palace og det tilhørende Bishops House ved Wells er bolig for biskoppen bispesædet Bath and Wells i 800 år. Den ligger i Somerset ved siden af Wells Cathedral. Det er en lsited building af første grad. Paladset blev opført omkring 1210 af biskopperne Jocelin af Wells og Reginald Fitz Jocelin. Kapellet og storsalen blev tilføjet af biskop Robert Burnell mellem 1275 og 1292. Murene, portbygningen og voldgraven blev tilføjet i 1300-tallet af biskop Ralph af Shrewsbury. Bishops House blev tilføjet i 1400-tallet af biskop Thomas Beckington. Storsalen forfaldt og blev delvist nedrevet omkring 1830. Dele af bygningerne bliver stadig brugt af den siddende biskop, men en stor del af paladset er åbent for offentligheden. Se også Borge og slotte i England Referencer Eksterne henvisninger
Bishop's Palace

Bishop's Palace in Wells is de verblijfplaats van de bisschop van Bath en Wells sinds de 13de eeuw. Het bisschoppelijk paleis met tuinen ligt naast de kathedraal van Wells. Het eerste gebouw werd rond 1210 opgetrokken door bisschoppen Jocelin of Wells en Reginald Fitz Jocelin. De kapel en de great hall werden toegevoegd door bisschop Robert Burnell tussen 1275 en 1292. In de 14de eeuw voegde bisschop Ralph of Shrewsbury de moren, het poortgebouw en de slotgracht toe; in de 15de eeuw werd het Bishop's House toegevoegd door bisschop Thomas Beckington, secretaris van Hendrik VI van Engeland. Het paleis is beschermd als Grade I-bouwwerk. Externe link Officiële website