We were blessed with a beautiful spring day for this outing, arranged for the group by our Events Organiser.  Birmingham City Centre itself was abuzz with people and the Council House in Victoria Square looked very impressive with The River artwork and water feature (“Floozie in the Jacuzzi”) in the foreground of this photograph to welcome us.

What follows is a record of our excellent guided tour of the building.

Rather conveniently, the Council also made available to us a leaflet giving the History of the Council House and Birmingham City Council, and I can do no better than to reproduce that here to give a good idea of the delights of the tour!

Janet Jordan
Secretary