A curious tramcar fatality
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 3rd October 1891.
This cutting gives details of the inquest into the death of Walter, Charles Hewitt from Birchfield Road.
Mr Hewitt had tried to jump off ...
'A Distinct Sensation'
This newscutting tells of a young lady from Perry Barr who had ventured out in her furs for the first time that autumn. As she got on the tram and passed down the car the other passengers began to blink ...
A Grand Concert
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing a Grand Concert in the grounds of the Old Crown and Cushion on Birchfield Road in aid of the Perry Barr Reservists Fund. There is still a pub called the ...
A Guard killed at Perry Barr
These newscuttings report the death and inquest of train guard Mark Robins. Robins was a guard on a L&NWR coal train to Perry Barr. He was directing his train into a siding to allow a football train ...
A Handsworth Milkseller in trouble
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette 21st May 1883.
The article refers to a Mr Henry.E. Leckington, a milk seller of Terrace Road ,Handsworth, being summoned for selling milk below the standard ...
A lady killed at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the death of Mrs Elizabeth Wells. Mrs Wells was the wife of Austin L. Wells of Warren Farm, Perry Barr. She was being driven to Birmingham ...
A lost Street Piano
A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail",19th June 1897.
This is a short article about an abandoned "street piano" that the police confiscated from a group of "Peaky Blinders" in Handsworth. It ...
A Perry Barr Divorce Suit - Assaulting a Wife with a Turkey
This newscutting reports on a divorce suit brought by Agnes Mary Barnes against her husband Frederick James Barnes, a commercial traveller. It was alleged that Barnes had committed adultery with one ...
A Rhubarb Hoax in Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth News" June 30th 1888.
This cutting gives an account of a practical Joke played on a Mr Tomlin, who owned fields in Queens Head Lane.
Someone spread a story ...
A Skeleton at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 12th November 1892. A short article which gives an account of the discovery of a human skeleton in Douglas Road. A small boy had alerted Detective Deacey ...
A Warning
At this date there were a large number of complaints about the quality of the tram service from Perry Barr into Birmingham. This cutting from the East Birmingham News is a poem about a youth who wanted ...
A woman drowned at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting taken from the Sutton Coldfield and Erdington Times November,22nd 1889.
This is a brief report following the discovery of a womans body in a pool on Mr Austin Well's farm, near Holly ...
Advert for the Perfect Thrift Building Society
From 1891. Most of the city would have lived in rented accommodation and this is an early example of attempts made to improve the lot of the working people.
Advert for William Bruckshaw - Butcher
William Bruckshaw traded at 139 Soho Road, which is located near to the junction with Waverhill Road.
The advert is from the Handsworth Church Bazaar of October 1893.
Advertisement for Military Ball
Military Ball advertisment for 1st Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers, Handsworth Companies held at the Town Hall, Birmingham on Friday 9th March 1883.
Advertisement for Mr Pieri's language classes
This advertisement for a Birmingham language tuition business is undated but must be Victorian. Mr (or perhaps Signor?) G.A.P. Pieri specialised in German, French and Italian and was based at 105 Bath ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page one)
This Agreement made on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety one between the Reverend Frank Scott Webster MA, John Walford Lea and Edward King Mason on behalf of the managers of ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page two)
...regularly and punctually make such returns as may from time to time be required.
4. The said Managers agree to pay the said Teacher a salary of one hundred and thirty pounds per annum payable by ...