Join me as we explore a beautiful three story victorian office situated in birmingham UK built in the usual victorian grandeur, a hole in the roof has made the woodwork inside dangerous, but a lot of the buildings original features still adorn the place in defiance.
Unity House
This is one of the few Victorian buildings in the City Centre that hasn't either found a new lease of life or been demolished. It is on Bromsgrove Street across the road from i-land.
Its most recent use was a trades union headquarters in the days when trade unions had wonderful names such as the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers (amalgamated 1963), the Birmingham and Midland Sheet Metal Workers Society (founded 1873) and the like. (Amicus just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?) Such unions occupied the building from around 1958 to sometime in the 1980s. One of us worked in this area from the mid-1980s to 2000 and can't recall any activity there, just a slow decay.
Prior to 1958 it was a pub, the Rose and Crown. A pub of this name was on this site for around 130 years or more though I doubt the present building dates from 1818.
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26 окт 2020
