1. Birmingham Snow Hill

This fine Edwardian station was demolished in 1977 despite a public outcry.  The historic fabric was razed and trains on the old Great Western line to Leamington were terminated at Moor Street – originally devised as an overflow station for Snow Hill. However, the damage to cross-city services was so severe that the station was rebuilt, in a smaller, far more utilitarian idiom, in 1987 – a mere ten years after the Victorian station had disappeared.

2. Newmarket

The unique Newmarket Station of 1848 had an imposing facade comprising a colonnade of eight sets of paired Ionic columns topped with massive entablature plinths and finials. Closed in 1967, the station buildings survived until 1980 – when, despite their listed status, they were regrettably demolished. Today the site is a housing development.

3. London Euston, The Arch

The most celebrated of all Britain’s railway monuments, the severe…

Figbird, photo Ray Sutton

Bimblebox 153 Birds in need of writers:

Calling Poets, Writers, Scientists, Academics!   Bimblebox 153 Birds is calling for writers to contribute to this art project which describes the bird species that have been officially recorded at the Bimblebox Nature Refuge. We need a myriad of voices to tell us something about the following bird species that are currently wild and free avian residents or seasonal visitors to the Bimblebox Nature Refuge.

WHY? Because the Bimblebox Nature Refuge is under threat from massive coal mining projects both directly over and under the refuge plus all around it, throughout the Galilee Basin. This means that the myriad life that thrives on Bimblebox is under threat, including the birds.

Please send an Expression of Interest that includes:

• A biography
• An example of your writing or a link to something you have written.
• nominate the birds you are interesting…