Heritage Exhibition at Highbury
The Highbury's Garden Project is underway and contractors and our Highbury team are working hard to reinstate aspects of the Highbury Estate.
This project marks the first phase of a historic landscape restoration programme, for the 30 acres of gardens around the house designed by Edward Milner in 1879.
The Chamberlain Highbury Trust has a programme of works and volunteering opportunities to create a more accessible and welcoming space that connects and restores the historic features.
This section of Highbury park and the garden connected to Highbury Hall were the much loved gardens of Joseph Chamberlain, he was passionate about horticulture and there are were many new techniques, hybrid plants and new species established in this area. Lots of these are still in situ at Highbury but many of the features of his garden are now over grown.
As part of Heritage Open Weekend we are holding a small scale, open air exhibition and launch of the gardens project at Highbury.
13th September, 12-4pm.
We will set up stalls and instillations around the estate to demonstrate the changes and improvements we will be making. This will include historic maps, photo displays, planting plans, research material from our Rhodadendron project as well as space for visitors to find out more about becoming part of the volunteer team on the Highbury's Garden Project.
You are welcome to follow our maps and navigate the estate, at your own pace, and discover for yourself our plans.
Or you can Book a Tour and spend an hour with a guide discovering the Heritage of the Highbury Landscape waiting to be revealed.
- There will be additional parking in Uffculme School's front car park, next door to Highbury's Yew Tree Road entrance. Highbury's car park is for disabled parking only.
- Entry is free and you can access Highbury's gardens from the Yew Tree Road entrances or Highbury Park.
- As part of our commitment to our funders and the community we would like all visitors to come up to the main lawn so we can register you.
- Strict social distancing will be required so we can limit the risk to visitors and volunteers.
- At this event there will only be access to outside spaces and no additional facilities (toilets or refreshments) will be provided.
- The accessible path has not yet been installed, the gardens cover 30 acres and tours will be walking for one hour. Please book here to join a tour
- Please meet your guide at the sign on the main lawn outside Highbury Hall, at least 5 minutes before the tour starts.
We hope you enjoy finding out more about Highbury's past and future.
Watch this video Making Highbury Bloom Again
Also on the 13th September there will be a guest exhibit from
Windswept Workshops 'Festival of Dreams'
 
A thought-provoking collaborative installation for visitors to experience
whilst moving through the estate. With space to contribute and contemplate.
Three secret stories will be spread out for you to find.
CHT is all about sharing Highbury with the community, so please come and have a walk through the grounds, meet our team and see for yourself our plans to restore some of the gardens and reinstate a view of the hall from the lake. |
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Volunteer on Highbury's Gardens Project
The ‘Highbury’s Gardens’ project will reinstate the original driveway from the Lodge up to the house, restore the rhododendron garden, open up views between the lake and the house and improve the footpath network to the east of the house.
We are so lucky to be guardians of an estate that inspires and impassions people. We are constantly reminded of the very special asset that Highbury is both to the local community, the city and the rest of the world.
We have contracted Sustainable Life - a Voluntary Organisation working across Birmingham to bring sustainable life skills to people of all ages and abilities. Their highly skilled coordinators will lead teams of volunteers to clear, prune, plant and protect the areas of the estate we are working on.
Volunteering sessions will be scheduled regularly and we will also have one off volunteering events and days that people can sign up to.
Volunteering is a great way to connect to your community and build your skills.
The contractors will do much of the work with machinery and hard labour and Volunteers will give a hands on approach to underpin their work and make the project embedded and sustainable.
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As a Volunteer with CHT
- You will be made to feel welcome by the organisation
- You are covered by our insurance if working under our instruction
- You will be appreciated and recognised for your contributions
- You will be provided with an induction, training and support
- Your work conditions will be safe and healthy
- You will be given a regular opportunity to review what you do
This opportunity is open to anyone - no previous experience needed, just willingness to learn and be part of an exciting project and team.
There will be more information sent out to applicants and we aim to have volunteers onsite by September 1st, but will be taking applications beyond this date.
If you have questions or would like to know more about how you will be supported and the work you will be carrying out, please get in touch via
chamberlainhighburytrust@outlook.com
Visit our website to Sign up or for
more information.
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Highbury's Building Work
We are really pleased to have been able to document the work happening at at Highbury through the essential works programme.
This work is just the start of a much bigger series of restoration work being fundraised for. You can see the care and attention going in to preserving, restoring and recreating Highbury's features. Thanks to History West Midlands and IMD media and all of the contractors working at Highbury.
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Thank you for your continued support.
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