Birchfield Branch Library

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Date:September 1897

Description:This building on Birchfield Road was once known as the Perry Barr Institute. It became Birchfield Library, a satellite of Handsworth Library in September 1897, when the two front rooms began to be used, one as a reading-room and the other as a lending library.


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1770s
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr

The Birchfield Road underpass, Perry Barr, opened in 1962.

1910s
Birchfield Public Library, Perry Barr
Birchfield Public Library, Perry Barr

The delivery counter at Birchfield Public Library, Perry Barr, in 1913. The building ...

1950s
Birchfield Library, Perry Barr
Birchfield Library, Perry Barr

Interior of Birchfield Public Library, Perry Barr, looking remarkably smart in 1952. ...

1980s
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr

A deserted Birchfield Road Underpass, Perry Barr, by night.

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