We’re taking a closer look at each of our new tours and trails this summer. 

Here’s Charlotte Kulidzan from the Roundhouse Birmingham with a guide to what you can expect from
Introducing the Roundhouse. 

The Roundhouse, or Sheepcote Street Depot as Victorian Brummies would have called it, is a curious presence in Birmingham. Our team have noticed how hidden the building has been to a lot people, even those who live nearby, or know their stuff about the city. 

While the Roundhouse has faded into the periphery of a changing city, it was once a busy stables and stores. Full of workers and working horses, coming and going, keeping the town and later city of Birmingham ticking over.

We’ve put together a tour that will last somewhere in the region of an hour to an hour and a half (it depends on how chatty the group is!) that charts the story Roundhouse, (or Sheepcote Street Depot), from a Victorian working hub to its new lease of life today.

The tour weaves in the unsung essential workers of the day alongside architecture, much loved pubs, how  Muhammed Ali ruined some much needed press, and how puppets nearly came to replace to the horses.