Victorian Beauty

I love the red brick Victorian buildings that crop up here and there in Birmingham City Centre.  This is one of my favourites - it is an old library building which seems to have been subsumed into a Tesco Development.  The detail of the brickwork is amazing.  Today was the first time that I have ever been able to walk close up to it as we had stopped to photograph a modern sculpture marking the transport interchange in Ladywood.  We found 4 of the 5 sculptures we were looking for today.  Thomas Attwood appears to have absconded from the park near where he used to live in Spark Hill.  I haven't been able to find out where he has been put yet.  He ought to be in Halesowen where he was born but I don't think he is...

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