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1. Handsworth Today
Text: Malcolm Dick
Handsworth represents many of the features of contemporary Birmingham:
• A change in the local economy from manufacturing to service industries. As local manufacturing has ...
100 Soho Hill, Handsworth
179 Church Hill Road
Elsmere Villa School was run here by Miss Annie Sharp in 1898.
1918 General Election
The 1918 General Election was held on December 14th and had extra importance due to the recent cease of hostilities in Europe. The economy had obviously been affected by the war, men were returning home ...
1918 General Election Poster for Norman Tiptaft
Tiptaft was the Independent candidate and is here trying to appeal to the women of Handsworth to vote for him. The use of the Elite Picture House for the talk is of interest as is Tiptaft's possibly hopeful ...
1922 General Election Result for Handsworth
This is from the Birmingham Gazette of November 17th 1922. The Handsworth result is in the third column along with the rest of the Birmingham results. It reads:
Commander Oliver Locker Lampson (Conservative): ...
1922 General Election: Why You Should Vote For Tiptaft
Here Councillor Norman Tiptaft lists all of the reasons why he was worthy of your vote in the 1922 General Election. Tiptaft had lost the previous election in 1918 but had become councillor for Handsworth ...
19A Wellington Road
More information on this house in Wellington Road would be gratefully received.
19b Wellington Road
More information on this house in Wellington Road would be gratefully received.
51 Villa Road
This is thought to have been a farmhouse and was originally built 1815. R. Shipway and Son General Engineering Pattern Makers are visible next door.
A Burglar's banquet at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Chronicle" 24th December 1892.
An account of one of the many burglaries at this time taking place in the area around Charles Road and Crompton Road.
The home ...
A Grand Concert
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing a Grand Concert in the grounds of the Old Crown and Cushion on Birchfield Road in aid of the Perry Barr Reservists Fund. There is still a pub called the ...
A Handsworth Milkseller in trouble
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette 21st May 1883.
The article refers to a Mr Henry.E. Leckington, a milk seller of Terrace Road ,Handsworth, being summoned for selling milk below the standard ...
A lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.
A lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.
A Lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.
A lost Street Piano
A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail",19th June 1897.
This is a short article about an abandoned "street piano" that the police confiscated from a group of "Peaky Blinders" in Handsworth. It ...