Comments on: Come to Artsfest!

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:34:31 +0000

It’s probably worth noting in this thread that Curzon Street Station is surprisingly small inside, especially as it mainly consists of a big central staircase. The actual rooms are teeny.

Odd, but an understandable misconception given the scale of the front.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:57:08 +0000

There was talk of the library being on a split site though – the main bit between Baskerville House and The REP, and the archives section down in the “Learning Quarter” in Eastside, potentially in Curzon St Station. I’m fairly sure that the Royal College of Organists have some claim on it but aren’t actually using it at present, for whatever reason.

By: Marv

Marv — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:20:36 +0000

There’s a press release on the City Council web site that says the new library building will be between Baskerville House and the Rep.

If you happen to be in the Central Library, there’s an exhibition about the merits of the present building on the first floor. It’s a great example of twentieth-century design, so they say. The Twentieth Century Society is campaigning to preserve it.

By: tea cloth

tea cloth — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:42:49 +0000

Oh, unfortunate – that’s what you get for high-speed Googling, I’m afraid!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:00:04 +0000

Hmm, I am not sure about tea cloth’s latest comment as wikipedia says (somewhere) that the funding fell soft by �1 million. Don’t worry, though it’s Grade I listed so it cannot come to any harm and will be put to good use eventually.

As an aside, they managed to destroy it’s big brother, Euston Station, in the 1960s and there is no way Curzon Street can be allowed to disappear. It’s the only remaining relic of the first real inter city railway, the London & Birmingham Railway.

By: tea cloth

tea cloth — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:10:16 +0000

http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=28

By: tea cloth

tea cloth — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:09:06 +0000

Curzon Street Station was actually acquired by the Royal College of Organists a year or two ago, as I recall. Though currently they’ve got their archives in Millennium Point, or some such. Let me try some Googling…

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:35:13 +0000

Regarding the library, the last I heard (second hand, gossip, etc) was that the funding for the Big Library Move had got all messy and fucked and it wasn’t going to happen for ages, but that was a while back and things move so very fast in Birmingham these days, especially with regards to redevelopment.

So I don’t know.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:20:36 +0000

Glad to see Curzon St Station is being put to a good use – a fine building with nothing much of any interest surrounding it. When I was working for the Council over Christmas, there was talk of it possibly being used as part of the development of the new City Library – any news on that front?