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The Duddeston Viaduct exhibition at The Custard Factory

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | Leave a comment

It’s not just the Digbeth Residents’ Association who are thinking of interesting things to do with the Duddeston Viaduct (the unsed viaduct which runs through Digbeth). On Tuesday 7th June an exhibition of proposals for the viaduct, made by four … Continue reading →

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Reclaim the spaces

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

The green-fingered amongst you might be inclined to join Birmingham Friends of the Earth today for Sunflower Sunday, which marks International Guerilla Gardening Sunflower Day with a mass sunflower plant around Digbeth, ‘planting the seeds wherever there was an unloved patch of ground’. … Continue reading →

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January Digbeth Residents’ Association meeting

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

The last Digbeth Residents’ Association meeting felt a lot more positive than usual thanks to the Visioning Exercise organised by Val Woodward that was led by Dr Julie Brown of the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Urban & Regional Studies.  Her … Continue reading →

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New Year – New Digbeth?

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Pamela | Leave a comment

To bring in a new year, I thought I’d start off 2012 with a post on different perspectives of our dear Digbeth. First up is a video mainly concentrated on Bradford Street (along with brief appearances of Barford Street and … Continue reading →

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Dave Harte’s suggestion for Future Digbeth Allotments

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

View future digbeth allotments in a larger map Very intriguing idea from Dave Harte to do something lovely with the unused viaducts in Digbeth, shown on the above map: we should have allotments on top of the abandoned Victorian rail … Continue reading →

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One of our viaducts is missing

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Nicky Getgood | 1 Comment

Has anyone seen where it’s got to?

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