Building Update (#1332 - 1334)

1332. All in one day, the left side of the building suddenly projected outwards so that now it is level with the right side. Taken on Hamilton Drive. (24/JUL/2014)

1333. Viewed from the thicket, the left-side projection can be seen in the background. Facing east. (24/JUL/2014)

1334. Viewed from Weoley Park Road, with the left-side projection in the foreground. (24/JUL/2014)

Building Update (#1321 - 1331)

1321. The OLRC looks lovely surrounded by foliage this time of year. Taken on Hamilton Drive. (21/JUL/2014)

1322. The new school is getting closer to Hamilton Drive (on the left). Here, the structure reaches the spot where Mary Burnie House once stood. Viewed through the thicket. (21/JUL/2014)

1323. The new school structure now covers where Brooksbank Centre and Mary Burnie House once stood. Viewed through the edge of the thicket. (21/JUL/2014)

1324. The new school, on the site of Mary Burnie House, viewed through the edge of the thicket from the other side of Hamilton Drive. (21/JUL/2014) 

1325. The new school, on the site of Mary Burnie House, viewed from the other side of Hamilton Drive.(21/JUL/2014)

1326. The new school viewed from the front, facing south-east. Taken on Hamilton Drive. (21/JUL/2014)

1327. The new school viewed from the front, facing south-east. Taken on Hamilton Drive. (21/JUL/2014)

1328. The new school structure is growing closer to Hamilton Drive. The OLRC can be seen background left, and the thicket is background centre. Facing south-west. (21/JUL/2014)

1329. The new school viewed from the front, facing south-east. Taken on Hamilton Drive. (21/JUL/2014)

1330. The structure of the new school viewed from the OLRC car park, facing north-east. (22/JUL/2014)

1331. The structure of the new school viewed from the OLRC car park, facing north-east. The thicket is on the left. (22/JUL/2014)

Building Update (#1316 - 1320)

1316. The new school expanding across to the north-west (to the left of this picture), viewed from the Religion and Society Hall, first floor of the OLRC. (18/JUL/2014)

1317. The new school projecting north-west (right of this picture, towards Hamilton Drive), viewed from Weoley Park Road. (18/JUL/2014)

1318. View of the new school from across Weoley Park Road. (18/JUL/2014)

1319. View of the new school from across Weoley Park Road. (18/JUL/2014)

1320. The new school as seen from Hamilton Drive facing south-east. (18/JUL/2014)

Building Update (#1310 - 1315)

1310. View of the new school across the OLRC car park, now expanding to the north-west (left of this photo). (17/JUL/2014)

1311. The new school viewed through the thicket, facing east. (17/JUL/2014)

1312. The trench on Hamilton Drive where the gas pipes are being laid. Facing north-east. (17/JUL/2014)

1313. The trench on Hamilton Drive where the gas pipes are being laid. Facing south-west. (17/JUL/2014)

1314. The new school viewed from Hamilton Drive. Facing south-east. (17/JUL/2014)

1315. View of the trench on Hamilton Drive from the corner on Weoley Park Road, under the Blue Cedar tree. (17/JUL/2014)

Update (#1296 - 1309)

1296. There's a bit of digging going on on Hamilton Drive, requiring temporary traffic lights. (16/JUL/2014)

1297. Hamilton Drive, its set of lights and the thicket, background right, through which you can see the building site. (16/JUL/2014)

1298. Hamilton Drive. BMS (Baptist Mission Society) is background centre and the building site is to the right. (16/JUL/2014)

1299. Hamilton Drive with its temporary trench. BMS is on the left and the building site is on the right. Facing Weoley Park Road. (16/JUL/2014)

1300. The new school from Weoley Park Road. A new staircase has been put in on the left. (14/JUL/2014)

1301. The new school from Weoley Park Road. A new staircase has been put in on the left. (14/JUL/2014)

1302. The new school, taken from across the OLRC car park. The teaching wing is on the right. (16/JUL/2014)

1303. The first set of stairs can be seen on the right of the new structure, towards the back. Taken from the OLRC car park. The teaching wing is on the right. (16/JUL/2014)

1304. White, Peach-leaved Bellflower (Campanula persicifolia) at the edge of the thicket and building site. The thicket is in the background and the OLRC and teaching wing can be seen behind it. Hamilton Drive is on the right. (16/JUL/2014)

1305. The grass all around the OLRC is colourful at the moment, dotted with many types of wild flower, including Clover, yellow Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), Nipplewort (Lapsana communis) - like small dandelions, and the purple Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris) (16/JUL/2014)

1306. A daisy and Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris) in the thicket. (16/JUL/2014)

1307. Blue, Peach-leaved Bellflower (Campanula persicifolia) growing up the Golden Liquid Amber Tree, on the BCC (Birmingham Christian College) side of Hamilton Drive. (16/JUL/2014)

1308. Buddleia (Buddleja davidii) outside the main entrance to the OLRC (background right). The teaching wing is background left. (16/JUL/2014)

1309. Buddleia (Buddleja davidii) outside the main entrance to the OLRC. (16/JUL/2014)

Building Update (#1291 - 1295) The Fourth Floor

Work has started on the fourth floor which will house the server / comms rooms etc, except for the centre of the building which will form an atrium-type roof to a two-storey room on the third floor.

1291. View of the new school with fourth floor in progress, taken from in front of no.6 Weoley Park Road. (10/JUL/2014)

1292. View of the new school with fourth floor in progress, taken from in front of no.7 Weoley Park Road. (10/JUL/2014)

1293. View of the new school with fourth floor in progress, taken from the other side of Weoley Park Road. (10/JUL/2014)

1294. View of the new school with fourth floor in progress, taken on Weoley Park Road. (10/JUL/2014)

1295. View of the new school with fourth floor in progress, taken from Hamilton Drive. (10/JUL/2014)

Another Building Update (#1285 - 1290)

1285. View of the structure from the OLRC car park. (02/JUL/2014)

1286. View of the new school taken from Hamilton Drive. Facing south-east. (02/JUL/2014)

1287. View of the new school from the edge of the meadow, outside the Bristol Road entrance to the OLRC. Facing north. (02/JUL/2014)

1288.  View of the new school from the edge of the meadow, outside the Bristol Road entrance to the OLRC. Facing north. (02/JUL/2014)

1289. The end of the structure and the sheet piles added at the end of the teaching wing. (02/JUL/2014)

1290. A spider has been building too, at the end of the teaching wing. (02/JUL/2014)