Photos 2025

For more information about the context in which these photos were taken, visit our Annual News 2025 page.

Photos of our summer visit to Bavaria can be viewed here.

Photos of our visit to Belgium with the Phoenix Singers can be viewed here.

I'm often to be seen along the local canals, but which is my best side? This one?

Maybe you prefer this side?

"Please include me in your photograph"

Bell Holloway in Northfield: it must surely be hundreds of years old

A rare view of the Golden Lion without scaffolding: this medieval building was moved from Deritend to Cannon Hill Park early in the 20th century, but has fallen derelict in recent decades. Now restoration work has begun, and there was a brief window between removal of the scaffolding that had supported it and its temporary encasement in a larger cocoon

Blue skies mean blue water at Bournville yachting pond (the yachts, when present, are model ones)

More blue water at Manor Farm Park, Northfield

Sporting action at Warm Welcome Friday, which provides games, activities and a meal on Friday afternoon and evening throughout the winter months

We're ready for any emergency at Toddler Group

Toddler Group is well served by transport links, though derailments are frequent

As always, the cross outside the building was covered with flowers at Easter. Recently the cross has had to be removed because the wood had become rotten, but we have plans for next Easter

Go Jane! Go Ruth! Runners power past our building, to loud cheers, in the annual Birmingham Half-Marathon

Broadcaster and author Robin Ince visited Kings Heath as part of his book tour. The event was organised by the Heath Bookshop, which won the Independent Bookshop of the Year award for 2025

Kings Heath's Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever was a mass recreation of Kate Bush's red dress music video: this also was organised by the Heath Bookshop (did I mention that they won an award?)

More Kate Bush (sort of) lookalikes: they spent the best part of an hour learning the moves. As far as I know no video of their performance has been published, but a video of a similar (but more spacious) event in Melbourne can be viewed here.

Before their visit to Belgium, Miriam's choir, the Phoenix Singers, gave a concert in Bournville Church. The concert included the first public performance by the brilliant Ukrainian viola player Yurii Biletskyi since leaving his homeland in 2024

 

A quiet moment for guide dog Mason, happy to stay out of the limelight - here, under a restaurant table - when required. At other times, though, he was out on the campaign trail along with candidate Philip Mills who won a hard-fought by-election in the key council ward of Moseley. Councildog Mason continues to make friends with people of all parties.

When a far right group put up flags on lampposts along Pershore Road in Stirchley, some local people got together and cut the flags down. Soon the flags went back up, and came down... and amid all the confrontations, residents of a side street near us made their own statement by stringing up an array of multinational flags. While I can take no credit whatever for this, my long-lens photos went down well on Instagram.

Spotted in the Science Museum: the control panel of the Soyuz spacecraft that brought Tim Peake back to Earth from the International Space Station

The safe way to view a partial solar eclipse: projection through a telescope or binoculars on to white card or paper clearly shows the Moon blotting out a bite of the Sun