Explore photos and stories from Black Country Visual Arts

A glance at the buildings open to you.

‘Northern Soul’ is shorthand for a once ‘underground’ subculture that originally developed among young, mostly working-class people in the north of England in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

London is full of visual clues about its rich past. These handsomely rendered architectural details are easy to miss, often hidden away or located high up on buildings.

Historic manhole covers, embedded in pavements and roads across the country, often hide infrastructure systems deep below our streets. Read more