Campaign aims to save the home of a political dynasty

Highbury Hall
Highbury Hall

A campaign has been launched to secure the future of Highbury Hall, the Grade II listed home of Joseph Chamberlain, which needs restoration estimated to cost £4 million.

Chamberlain, the prominent Liberal Party statesman and social reformer, commissioned the building, designed in the Venetian Gothic style and set in 70 acres in the Moseley area of Birmingham, in 1878 and lived there with his six children from 1880 to 1914. His son Neville spent his childhood years at Highbury before becoming Lord Mayor of Birmingham and then Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940.

The Highbury Trust, which comprised Neville Chamberlain, Barrow Cadbury (the grandson of John Cadbury, the founder of the family-run chocolate business in Birmingham), Sir Richard James Curtis and John Bedford Burman, the