The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 6 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 7 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 8 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 9 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 10 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 11 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The volunteers come home
Birmingham volunteers from the Boer War marching up New Street for an assembly in Victoria Square. One Birmingham man was George Albert Ravenhill who had served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and won ...
Tindal Street School evacuees with Queen Mary
The picture is dated 21st September 1939. Arthur Rose is to far left and sister Irene Rose is the girl in front with hand on the grass. Irene remembers writing home to her mum to say she had been gardening ...
Travel notice to housewives
An advertisment placed on public transport to encourage housewives not to travel after 4pm, to free up transport for essential workers.
Fewer buses and trains would have been available than in peace ...
Two minute silence
The two minute silence observed for those who gave their lives during wartime. This was at the ceremony for the opening of Alfred Knight Way in Park Central. Knight was born in nearby Friston Street and ...
Varna Road
Bomb damage on Varna Road, Balsall Heath during World War Two, 1941 (the area was one of the first to be redeveloped in the 1960's and the road was completely demolished and no longer exists)
VE Day in Cregoe Street
Cregoe Street party to celebrate the end of the Second World War. VE Day was officially on May 8th but this party may have been held after that date. The location is the "lower end" of Cregoe Street which ...
VE Day party in Oldfield Road
This image was sent by Graham Partlett who lived in Oldfield Road. The group are outside number 6 Oldfield Road. VE Day parties were held all over the country to celebrate Victory In Europe at the end ...
VE Day Service at St John's Church in Ladywood
View of the church during the service to mark the 60th anniversary of VE Day. Norman Bartlam and Eileen DOyle of the Housing Education Initiative put on an exhibtion and organised events for the day. ...
Victory bus and tram
This is the illuminated bus which toured Birmingham as part of the celebrations for the end of the war. The bus toured for six evenings across the city on different routes. There was also a tram which ...
Volunteer drum major, Handsworth
Unnamed volunteer drum major, Handsworth. (The photographer was F. Holloway of 78 Soho Road.)
Waiting for Churchill
Children from St George's and The Oratory Ladywood Schools waiting for the arrival of "Winston Churchil" at the 60th Anniversary of VE Day celebrations at St John's Church in Ladywood.
Warship Week
Advert from the Birmingham Post for the city's "Warship Week" in 1941. Ten million was trying to be raised for HMS King George V to be adopted by the city for the war.
HMS King George V launched on ...