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Plea to restore 'our' city mural ; CAMPAIGN: Anger over plans for mosaic pieces in benches
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FURIOUS city planning chiefs want Birmingham's historic Kennedy
mural fully restored to its former glory in a new pounds 150 million
Digbeth Irish Quarter development.
The planning committee has criticised developer Connaught Square
over it plan to set pieces of the mosaic, including the face of
President Kennedy, in benches.
Key parts of the mural were removed two years ago from St Chad's
Circus underpass and put in storage when the roundabout was
demolished with a promise it ...
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Plea to restore 'our' city mural; CAMPAIGN: Anger over plans for mosaic pieces in benches.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England)
; Byline: By Neil Elkes LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORRESPONDENT FURIOUS city planning chiefs want Birmingham's historic Kennedy mural fully restored to its former glory in a new pounds 150 million Digbeth Irish Quarter development. The planning committee has criticised developer Connaught Square over it plan
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No comeback for JFK mural ; HERITAGE: Mosaic can only be restored in small bits
Birmingham Mail
; BIRMINGHAM'S historic John F Kennedy mosaic mural will never be in one piece again, it was revealed today. Instead, the face of the assassinated American president and other characters from the giant mural are set to be placed underneath public benches. Acclaimed artist Kenneth Budd's 1968 St
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No comeback for JFK mural; HERITAGE: Mosaic can only be restored in small bits.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England)
; Byline: By Adam Smith BIRMINGHAM'S historic John F Kennedy mosaic mural will never be in one piece again, it was revealed today. Instead, the face of the assassinated American president and other characters from the giant mural are set to be placed underneath public benches. Acclaimed artist
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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New vision of Irish Quarter as everything the Mailbox isn't.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Campbell Docherty The pounds 400 million vision of an Irish Quarter, regenerating one of Birmingham's most dilapidated areas, has been unveiled. Developers behind the Digbeth scheme want it to be 'everything the Mailbox is not', with affordable housing and commercial spaces for young
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JFK mural's on the move - thanks to artist's son
Birmingham Mail
; BIRMINGHAM'S landmark President Kennedy mural is waiting for a new home after being removed from its home of 37 years by the son of the artist who created it. Artist Oliver Budd has carefully chipped away the mosaic portrait of John F Kennedy at St Chad's Circus ahead of the demolition of the
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Oliver's a real chip off the old block ART: Iconic JFK mural is in safe hands during Snow Hill revamp - with artist's son
Birmingham Mail
; ... water leaked into the underpass. Tell us your JFK memories Phone 0121 234 5999 until 4.30pm, email paul_fulford@mrn.co.uk log onto www.birmingham mail.net/news/yoursay or write to us at Birmingham Mail, PO Box 78, Weaman Street, Birmingham B4 6AY.
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Oliver's a real chip off the old block; ART: Iconic JFK mural is in safe hands during Snow Hill revamp - with artist's son.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England)
; ... underpass. Tell us your JFK memories Phone 0121 234 5999 until 4.30pm, email paul_fulford@mrn.co.uk log onto www.birmingham mail.net/news/yoursay or write to us at Birmingham Mail, PO Box 78, Weaman Street, Birmingham B4 6AY. CAPTION(S): PROUD ... Oliver Budd and ...
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Plea to 'restore' popular mural ; CAMPAIGN: Historian joins fight over landmark following fears for its future
Birmingham Mail
; OWNERS of Birmingham's new Irish Quarter were today urged to fulfil a moral duty to restore the much-loved Kennedy memorial to its former glory. Brummie historian Prof Carl Chinn called for planning chiefs and developers to ensure the mosaic removed from St Chad's Circus two years ago gets pride of
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JFK mural's on the move - thanks to artist's son.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England)
; Byline: By Neil Elkes BIRMINGHAM'S landmark President Kennedy mural is waiting for a new home after being removed from its home of 37 years by the son of the artist who created it. Artist Oliver Budd has carefully chipped away the mosaic portrait of John F Kennedy at St Chad's Circus ahead of the
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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BRIDGING GAP; River to be uncovered as part of pounds 50m Irish Quarter bid.(News)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; ... Spector, chairwoman of the council's development committee, said: 'This scheme and the others planned for the future are great news for the Irish Quarter.' Meanwhile work is continuing on the huge pounds 6 billion Eastside regeneration scheme on the opposite ...
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