Seasonal joy comes in many forms, and in the Broad Street area that means the return of the Westside Christmas Choir to embrace the area’s incredible local history.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 10 December) its members will be singing everyone’s favourite carols at The Exchange on Broad Street from 12.30 to 1.30pm.
The building that hosts The Exchange was originally opened as The Municipal Bank in 1933, serving as a bank until 1998 before being mothballed. It was then developed and reopened as the University of Birmingham’s ‘public gateway’, meeting area and cafe in 2021.
Organiser and Westside BID business liaison manager Elaine Weir said: “Anyone can come along to see how our choir is hopefully helping everybody to feel welcome at this very important time of the year.”
Drawn from church and town hall choirs, the members have this year chosen to perform in three of Westside’s most remarkable buildings.
Neatly avoiding Storm Darragh, the singers began their ‘local world’ tour on Wednesday 4 December at the now 50-year-old, three-sided Tricorn House on Hagley Road.
They followed that up on Friday 6th with a visit to Centenary Square’s Baskerville House, completed in 1938 and then fully restored and extended at roof height from 2003 to 2007.
The group, led by guitarist Ollie Pinnock, also posed for pictures outside another Centenary Square landmark, the domed Hall of Memory. This building opened in 1925 as a memorial to the men and women from Birmingham who gave their lives during the First World War (1914 to 18).
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