Connected Heritage

As part of this trail you will experience Handsworth with all its rich history. From its humble beginnings as a pleasant little village in the county of Staffordshire. It was chosen by entrepreneur Matthew Boulton as the location for his Soho Manufactory, one of the earliest factories in the world and the first to use an assembly line process.

The Birchfield Heritage Trail is a celebration of the history and diverse cultural heritage of this area of Birmingham which is located a short distance from the Alexander Stadium – home to the Birchfield Harriers and one of the main venues for the Commonwealth Games 2022. Discover some of the hidden secrets of the Birchfield area...

Our unique E Scooter tour/ trail allows us to explore the inner city connection t the African Caribbean community but cover a larger amount of ground. This is a unique proposition is a first within the city and aim to show how the City has a unique commuity who contribution in the City is demonstrated through Art ad Culture. 

The West Midlands has a large number of sporting venues that have a historic connection not only to the wider West Midland sporting region but also to the Commonwealth Games 2022. Black Heritage Walks Network provides unique trail showcasing sporting heroes from the perspective of the African Caribbean community...

This walk feature activist, writer and journalist Olaudah Equiano and his association with the Lunar Society in Soho, Handsworth. Equiano, a former slave, published a memoir of his life and the terrible, unjustifiable things that happened while enslaved - “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Cassa, the
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On Saturday 12th November we will walk the trail, have a vegetarian lunch & thank those who have been involved. Meet at Lozells Methodist Centre at 10:00am with lunch back at the centre at about 12:30pm.

The trail is approximately 2.5 miles along local roads and is fully accessible. Lunch is free, but to help with catering please book places by e-mailing Mrs Helena Moss at interfaith@cofebirmingham.com...

The project aims to combine existing trails around Handsworth and Lozells into one place where you can find all the trails both virtually and into a brochure that displays all the maps with descriptions. We can use QR codes to set out existing trials and add them onto a landing page that takes you to all the maps.

Carl Chinn is a noted social historian who has written 35 books, many of which are about working-class life in Birmingham, and whose book Peaky Blinders - The Real Story (2019) was a Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. He is acknowledged internationally as the leading expert on the real peaky blinders of Birmingham...

The tree trail was first created, and a booklet was published by Fiends of Ward End Park in July 2014. The booklet provided an insight into the wonderful and varied trees within the park, some of which are over 100 years old and planted before the area was opened as a public park in 1904.

With the kind permission of The Friends of Ward End Park and with support from the Commonwealth Games, the Dolphin Women’s Centre (part of Norton Hall Children & Family Centre) have revived the tree trail by making it accessible to people of all ages by reproducing the original leaflet and creating a digital version of the tree trail...

Windswept workshops have create a heritage walking tour of Bournbrook, Selly Oak. The tour is a combination of a physical tour, led by trained student volunteers & residents and an accessible digital audio tour, so that visitors and locals can access the tour at all times.

The tour will launched on August 8th and will involve walking tours, actor-led tours for families, a theatre troop performance, creative workshops, as well as the unveiling of the audio tour.