Trinity Methodist Church, Handsworth
Trinity Methodist Church, Rookery Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. The church dates from 1914.
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 ...
Villa Cross Picture House
Interior view looking back from the screen of this picture house. It was built 1914-1915 by M. Round and Sons. It stood in Heathfield road and was built on the site of Shorts Carriage Works. The cinema, ...
Villa Road
Tom Lambert's shop at 129 Villa Road. In the 1901 census, Tom, a 50 year-old widower, born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, is stated to be a fishmonger.
In the census of 1881 he is listed as a fruiterer ...
Villa Road
Victorian/ Edwardian view of Villa Road.
Villa Road and Heathfield Road Junction
The old cab proprietor's house, corner of Villa Road and Heathfield Road at Villa Cross. A picture house was later built on this spot. The poster standing outside the building advertises a production ...
Volunteer drum major, Handsworth
Unnamed volunteer drum major, Handsworth. (The photographer was F. Holloway of 78 Soho Road.)
W & T Avery's Manufactory, Handsworth
W & T Avery's Manufactory
Penny-in-the-slot Machine Department. Avery took over the Soho Foundry site in Handsworth which had been occupied by the firm of Boulton and Watt. They are still to this day ...
W. Burgum of St Vincent Street
Burgum's were a coal merchants operating from the railway wharf off Sheepcote Street. This advert is taken from the St Thomas church magazine. St Thomas's was the church on Bath Row which was bombed during ...
Walter Langley - artist from Irving Street and Lee Crescent
Walter Langley was the first major artist to settle at Newlyn in Cornwall, and as such was one of the most important of the colony of artists there. While to some extent overshadowed by Stanhope Forbes, ...
West House School, Edgbaston
West House School, St James' Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard probably of interwar date. Founded as a preparatory school for boys, the school first appears in directories from 1896 and still exists today....
Whitehall Road
Undated postcard of Whitehall Road but dates from sometime in the first part of the 20th century judging from the street lights.
Winchester Road, Perry Barr
Winchester Road, Birchfield, Perry Barr
YMCA Hostel on Bristol Street
The Hostel was opened in 1919 to cater for the large number of demobilised men in need of assistance with accommodation. In 1936 alone it was reported that 228 free beds had been provided and 1,027 free ...
Zeppelin fighters in Birmingham - including Victoria Cross awardee William Leefe Robinson
The picture looks as though it was taken next to St Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham City Centre, possibly on Colmore Row as they are walking towards the Council House.
Sowrey is difficult to establish ...
Zeppelins!!
The threat and actuality of bombing raids by Zeppelins on Britain during the First World War prompted adverts such as these from insurance companies. The reality of raids such as that on the Midlands ...