Lease of a messuage with appurtenances in Handsworth
Lease for ninety nine years from Charles Stanford of the parish of Hansworth [Handsworth] esq., to Anne Spurryer, spinster, daughter of Thomas Spurrier of the said parish, deceased, of a messuage with ...
Letters to William Knight Junior
The Smalbroke family are first recorded in the Birmingham area in 1425/6, when William Smalbroke is recorded as a trustee of charitable property at Yardley [584318 DV 860]. They appear to have remained ...
Perry Pont House, Perry Barr
Stool at Perry Pont House, Perry Barr, photographed in 1909. An inscription on the stool states that it was part of the root of the tree in which King Charles II sheltered in 1651 after the Battle of ...
Quitclaim of messuages and lands in Handsworth
Quitclaim from Edmund Brudenell, son and heir of Thomas Brudenell of Thistleton, co. Rutland, gent., and Anne, his late wife, daughter and coheir of Thomas Warner of Wedligborow [Wellingborough co. Northampton], ...
Rotton Park
In 1628 Rotton Park was bought by a wealthy landowner from Belbroughton in Worcestershire, called Humphrey Perrott. In 1737 John, the last of the Perrotts, inherited the estate. He was about 35 years ...
Saint Mary's Church, Handsworth
This photograph shows the last page of the second Parish Register volume, covering the year 1602.
Stratford House, Highgate
Stratford House was originally a farmhouse built in 1601 by Ambrose Rotton, and is still an outstanding feature of Moseley Road today. For a period from 1854 it was used as a private girls' school. The ...
Stratford House, Highgate
Farm house built in the seventeenth century by Ambrose Rotton. He was a major land owner in the area and the building remains today on the Moseley Road.
Stratford House, Highgate
Stratford House was originally a farmhouse built in 1601 by Ambrose Rotton. The Rotton Park area is named after him.
The Friary, Friary Road, Handsworth. 21st June 1937
It was built in 1658 as a farmhouse, becoming a gentlemen's residence about 1700. It was eventually demolished in 1937 as part of the "Grestone development". One notable owner was Frederick Arthur Walton ...
The Red Lion, Soho Road
This coaching house had its first licence granted in 1542. The present building is a replacement built on the same site. Oliver Cromwell used the Red Lion to provide stabling for his horses and rest for ...