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Behind the scenes with the team at Winterbourne House and Garden

  • The Winterbourne apiary

    Winterbourne bees steal the spotlight at the Birmingham Honey Show 2025

    Last month, Birmingham Heritage Week brought the city’s rich heritage and vibrant culture into the spotlight. This 10-day festival of Birmingham events invited residents and visitors alike to uncover hidden histories, explore beloved landmarks, and discover new corners of the city, including our own Winterbourne House and Garden. As part of both Birmingham Heritage Week…

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  • Lemon and Elerflower Drizzle Cake
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    Recipe: Lemon and elderflower drizzle cake

    Clutch onto the floral and citrus flavours of summer with this luscious lemon and elderflower drizzle cake. This recipe is a firm favourite of our Communications and Events Supervisor Jenny, who cooked it regularly with her grandma growing up. Ingredients: For the cake: 113g caster sugar 113g butter 2 medium eggs 113g self-raising flour 1tsp…

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  • The very best of autumn in the garden

    The first day of autumn is just one week away and the garden is already beginning to transform into a comforting sea of rich reds, oranges and browns. Whilst the simple pleasures of autumn can be easily found in the crunch of leaves underfoot, or the fragrant smell of the garden after rainfall, we’ve put…

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  • Introducing Stand and Stare: a collaborative exhibition 

    “What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?” These famous words, written by poet William Henry Davies in 1911, have inspired artists Kate Gallimore, Richard Coyle, and Juliet May to create an exciting exhibition, which will be on display at Winterbourne from 27 September 2025. Read on to…

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  • Folio Cover

    Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Portfolio

    If you could travel back in time to 23  March 1887, you would find the streets of Birmingham throbbing with excitement.  Massive crowds gathered to catch a glimpse of Queen Victoria, who visited the city to celebrate her Golden Jubilee.  As the diminutive monarch was driven along Colmore Row, she passed through the ‘Metalworkers’ Arch’,…

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