The Old Grey House, Hamstead Hall Road
The photograph depicts the side of this grand house and some of the garden.
Little is known about the history of The Old Grey House, though a request for information has brought forward the description ...
The Old Hall, Great Barr
The Old Hall was probably built around 1730 and is all that remains of a much larger house, containing fine timbers and panelling. Both the farmhouse and barn are now Grade II listed.
The Old Hall, Great Barr
The Old Hall was probably built around 1730 and is all that remains of a much larger house, containing fine timbers and panelling. Both the farmhouse and barn are now Grade II listed.
This watercolour ...
The Red House, Great Barr
The Red House, Great Barr from a postcard. It is shown as a convalescent home for children on the 1918 Ordnance Survey map. By the 1937 map the area was shown as Red House Park with a members golf club. ...
The workroom of James Watt at Heathfield Hall
The workroom of James Watt at Heathfield, absolutely undisturbed since his death in 1819.
Thornhill House
Thornhill House from the fields, near to the railway line, showing also the rope-walk in the middle of the image.
Thornhill House, Handsworth
Thornhill House, Handsworth. It was occupied in the eighteenth century by John Scales who worked at the Soho Manufactory. James Watt junior lived there prior to moving to Aston Hall, then Matthew Boulton's ...
Thornhill House, Handsworth
Thornhill House, Handsworth. It was occupied in the eighteenth century by John Scales who worked at the Soho Manufactory. James Watt junior lived there prior to moving to Aston Hall, then Matthew Boulton's ...
Thornhill House, Soho Road, Handsworth
Thornhill House, Handsworth. It was occupied in the eighteenth century by John Scales who worked at the Soho Manufactory. James Watt junior lived there prior to moving to Aston Hall, then Matthew Boulton's ...
Toll Gate and Rose Hill House
Rose Hill House occupied a site at the corner of Soho Road and Rose Hill Road, opposite the former Methodist chapel. It was the residence of William Creighton who was an engineer employed at the Soho ...
View of James Watt's Workroom at Heathfield Hall
Oil painting by John or Jonathon Pratt of James Watt's workroom at Heathfield. Heathfield was demolished in the 1920s but the contents of the workroom was preserved at the Science Museum in London.
Wallpaper found at Soho House
This wallpaper was found in the Drawing Room at Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton. It was behind a large sheet of lead which had been placed there in the nineteenth century, presumably in ...
Waverhill House
This was the home of John Rhodes who funded the Rhodes Almshouse which still stand along the Soho Road today.The house stood in Waverhill Road.
Waverhill House, Soho Rd, Handsworth
Waverhill House, Soho Road, Handsworth. The residence of James Rhodes. c.1875
William Murdock's House
William Murdock's house at Queen's Head Road, Handsworth.
William Murdock's House
Dwelling House built on Sycamore Hill, Queens Head Road, Handsworth,
and called ‘Fair House’, by William Murdock, the inventor of Coal Gas
for lighting purposes, and now used as a builder’s ...
Work to be carried out for the Reverend Boyle at Soho House
This note outlines work that was to be carried out at Soho House for the Reverend Boyle. Boyle was the vicar at nearby St Michael's church and lived at Soho House from 1860 to c.1867. The house was ...