
Henrietta Lockhart, Winterbourne’s Collections Officer, looks at the topic of her recent lecture on Birmingham’s Glorious Suburbs. ‘Glorious suburbs! Long may ye remain To bless the ancient town, whose crown ye are; Rewarder of the cares of those who toil Amid the din and smoke of iron-ribbed, And hardy Birmingham. And may ye long be

In March’s ‘The Opportunist’ we unveiled plans for the development of a new Winter Garden focused around ten West Himalayan birch trees planted in the spring of this year. Following a successful summer in the ground those trees have now begun to establish, and the autumn which followed presented yet another window in which to