Soho House, Handsworth
Soho House, Handsworth. The home of Matthew Boulton from 1766 to 1809 it looked down from Soho Hill onto the Soho Manufactury below. This photograph dates to about 1880.
Soho House, Handsworth
Soho House, Handsworth. The former home of Matthew Boulton it was extensively remodelled by him in the 1790s using the architects James and Samual Wyatt.
This view of 1866 is from Samuel Smiles book ...
Soho House, Handsworth
Soho House, Handsworth, from the rear. It was the home of Matthew Boulton from 1766 until his death in 1809 and the meeting place of the Lunar Society.
This is the only known photograph showing the ...
Soho House, Handsworth
Soho House, Handsworth. One time home of Matthew Boulton. This view is of the back garden of the property.
Soho House, Handsworth
Soho House, Handsworth, the former home of Matthew Boulton, in 1969 when it was being used as a hostel for single policemen.
To the left of the photograph behind the tree is a brick flat roofed extension ...
Soho House, Handsworth from the rear
Soho House, in Soho Avenue, Handsworth, 1906. The former home of Matthew Boulton it was at this date being used as a girls' school.
Sycamore Hill House, Handsworth
Sycamore Hill House, Handsworth, the residence of William Murdoch. From a photograph by Thomas Lewis
The Austins' Pools
The former home of the Hasluck family stood on the site of what is now The Austins Estate. All that is left now are the pools which lay in the grounds of the house and are now situated in the middle of ...
The Breakfast Room in Heathfield Hall
The picture is undated but probably dates from the time that Heathfield was occupied by the Pemberton Family. It was of course formerly the residence of James Watt.
Taken from the T.E. Pemberton album ...
The Calthorpe Deeds
Benjamin Stone's Diary entry covering the ancient deeds found by Lieutenant Somerset Gough Calthorpe at Perry Hall.
Friday Nov 16 1906
By the 9:20 train home to meet the Rev: Swindell to lunch at ...
The Drawing Room, Soho House
This view of Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton was taken when the house was in use as a hotel. What had been Boulton's Drawing Room was used as the hotel dining room.
The chimneypiece ...
The Drive, Wellington Road, Handsworth by E.R. Madeley
This watercolour by E.R. Madeley is captioned The Drive, Wellington Road with a note added that it is also known as The Hill. There is a large house called The Hill marked on Ordnance Survey Maps so ...
The Friary
The Friary and Lodge stood on Friary Road. The Friary was built in 1658 and demolished in 1937 as part of the Grestone development. The black and white half timbered effect was added sometime after 1906.
Occupants ...
The Friary, Friary Road
This photograph is a rear view of the Friary, taken in 1937, shortly before the house was demolished. The building and its lands, including the four acre paddock at the front of the house, were sold and ...
The Friary, Handsworth
The Friary, Handsworth, in 1906, from the south west. The Friary, originally built as a farmhouse in 1658 and enlarged around 1700, lay a little way back from the road in Friary Road. It was demolished ...
The Homestead, Hamstead Hill, Handsworth
The Homestead, Hamstead Hill, Handsworth. This house was demolished in June 1971.
The Leveretts, Camp Lane, Handsworth
The Leveretts, Camp Lane, Handsworth. The photograph shows the Leveretts at the time it was employed by the Birmingham Corporation as a centre for treating psychiatric disorders. The land had been known ...
The Moors, Church Lane
Watercolour sketch of the Moors circa 1879. Built by John Goode Esq. in the early nineteenth century, the house and fields stood between Church and Grove Lanes.
Later it was the home of Dr Hedley ...