Bradshaws closing down Sale
First advert placed in the Evening Despatch by Bradshaws after they announced their closing down sale. The Lee Bank development compulsorily purchased many buildings in the area. The closure of Bradshaws ...
Bradshaw's of Cregoe Street
This 1935 advertisement for Bradshaw's of Cregoe Street - 'Bradshaw's Drapery and Boot Warehouse', as it says on the wall - is bound to appeal to someone writing captions. It is the kind of advertisement ...
Bradshaws of Cregoe Street
Bradshaws opened on Cregoe Street in 1904 and stayed there till 1958 when they were compulsorily purchased as part of the urban renewal of the area. The shop occupied sites on both sides of Cregoe Street ...
Bradshaw's of Cregoe Street, Lee Bank
As the big letters on the right-hand building say, 'This is Bradshaw's', the shop in Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, where you could buy just about anything for your home. H.B. Bradshaw Ltd began as drapers ...
Bristol Street
This view is of the western side of Bristol Street - the side that has been completely demolished in the course of later development and road improvement. On the left, at 197 Bristol Street, is S.K. Moss, ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
This scene in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, cannot date from much later than 1960 as the whole of this west side of Bristol Street was soon to be swept aside to make way for road widening. By 1965 this side ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
201 Bristol Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 11 October 1960. Number 201, in the centre, belonged to S. Cole & Co., wine and spirit merchants. To the left, apparently offering personal services, is Birmingham ...
Broad Street, Ladywood
The premises of Geo. Oram & Company, 187 and 188 Broad Street, Birmingham. In directories the company is described as 'house furnishers' and their shop was on the south side of Broad Street between Bishopsgate ...
Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
C F Jarvis - Chemist
Clarence Frank Jarvis traded on Villa Road next to the junction with Hamstead Road.
Chapman's Windmill and R.Wier on Holloway Head
Chapman’s brick built tower mill stood on the hill overlooking Holloway Head. It is thought to have been constructed in 1745 by Clark’s who were millwrights in Deritend until the late 18th century. There ...
Darbyshire's
An advert for the business which was at 297 Monument Road. They were picture framers who also specialised in re-gilding frames. The advert is from the St Mark's Parish Magazine of 1907. Photographs were ...
Derelict Bradshaw's
Closed down Bradshaw's on the corner of Latimer Street and Cregoe Street.
This was the left hand Bradshaw's building that sold carpets etc.
Edward Road
Lots of interest in the photographer from a group of young boys outside a shop on this road in 1958.
F.W. Smallwood - Chemists on Grove Lane
Smallwood the chemists was located at 141 Grove Lane. They traded in the early part of the twentieth century. This bottle of "stomachic mixture" is on display at the Handsworth Historical Society.
George Albert Asbury's Shop, 55 Key Hill, Hockley
George Albert Asbury's Shop, 55 Key Hill, Hockley 1906
Holloway Head
Holloway Place, Holloway Head showing a street market, or perhaps a shop spilling out onto the street. It appears to be attracting a crowd. In spite of the shabby surroundings window-boxes are in evidence ...