Balloon ascent near Handsworth Church

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Date:1870 - 1880 (c.)

Description:This is a photograph of a watercolour belonging to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It shows groups of people watching a balloon ascent with St Mary's Church and its Rectory in the background.


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1790s
Handsworth Parish Church
Handsworth Parish Church

From an old print by Rev Stebbing Shaw. Watercolour by Joseph F. Pimm who gave this ...

1840s
St Mary's Church by C.F. Green
St Mary's Church by C.F. Green

St Mary's is Handsworth Parish Church and has been much altered and added to over ...

1900s
Bellringers at St Mary's Church
Bellringers at St Mary's Church

A group portrait of the bellringers at Saint Mary's Church taken sometime in the ...

1920s
St Mary's Church, Handsworth by H. Bailey
St Mary's Church, Handsworth by H. Bailey

c.1920 pen and ink or engraving.

1960s
St Mary's Church, Handsworth
St Mary's Church, Handsworth

St Mary's Church, Hamstead Road, Handsworth. The parish church dates originally ...

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Image courtesy of: Handsworth Historical Society

Donor ref:Handsworth Historical Soc (BMAG original 1987v88) (7/2353)

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