Down To Earth in The City gets an airing
Welcome To Brum A series of exhibitions at The Arches Project, hosted by Evette Edmeade The Night Air Down to Earth in The City was aired last night (23rd June 2022) at the marvellous Arches Project on Adderley Street, Deritend. City Archaeologist, Dr Mike Hodder gave an inspiring talk about the origins of the early market and trading settlement around St Martins Church, and the ancient roads carrying traders from far and wide. The central site we now call the city centre holds a fascinating story, and thanks to Mike and other Archeologists, the story slowly unfolds to a new audience. The 'Ever-changing Birmingham' story will no doubt be written one day, presenting Birmingham in all its glory as a perpetually changing City with 12,000 years of evidence, enabling a vision of the ice age environment, via beetle remains and a later woodland setting with pollen identification, through to the early farming settlers, the market place and the mediaeval growth leading to industrialisa...