Found Drowned
This newscutting reports on the inquest following the death of eighteen year old James Coope. Coope had lived with his aunt and uncle in Livingston Road, had argued with them and had his ears boxed. ...
Handsworth and the Muzzling Order
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald",19th June 1897.
This cutting refers to the muzzling order introduced by Staffordshire County Council the previous year, following an outbreak of rabies. ...
Infant Welfare Institute, Handsworth
Interior of the Infant Welfare Institute, Hunter's Road, Handsworth Funded by Andrew Carnegie
James Vose Soloman - Surgeon
A Biography of James Vose Soloman from the Handsworth Magazine.
The late Mr James Vose Solomon, F.R.C.S., of whom our frontispiece is a speaking likeness, resided for many years at Villa-franca, Hamstead ...
Joseph Gamgee and the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund - by Chris Upton
Fame can be a fickle, unpredictable thing. Joseph Sampson Gamgee (pictured), sometime surgeon of Birmingham, would be puzzled to know that his name has been preserved and broadcast to the world as a character ...
Mad dog at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, January 20th 1897.
This is the first in a series of news reports dealing with a suspected outbreak of Rabies In Perry Barr.
A collie was seen running madly ...
Mike Jones interview
Mike Jones was born in Birmingham in 1926. Both his parents were both deaf and mute and, with no Welfare State to support them, life was a great struggle. His account of his childhood gives a vivid picture ...
Ministry of Health Poster - Coughs And Sneezes...
This poster was put up in surgeries and hospitals across the Birmingham area. The slogan achieved fame and immortality when it featured in "The Blood Donor" an episode of Hancock's Half Hour starring ...
No Fireguards - Birmingham Children Burnt to Death
This newscutting deals with the inquests into the deaths of two children, one from Franchise Street, Perry Barr. The mother of two year old Kate West was upstairs when she heard Kate screaming in the ...
Painful drowning case at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889.
This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Hawkes Lane, West Bromwich.
She had been found dead in ...
Perry Barr Mystery - Child's Body in a Box
A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald reporting the discovery of the body of a baby in a cardboard box on the Aldridge Road. The child was not identified and was found to have been strangled.
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Photograph Album of Elan Valley works
In the late 19th century, due to the rapidly expanding population and problems with the outbreak of diseases, for the benefit of its inhabitants, the Corporation of Birmingham needed to find a fresh water ...
Putrid Rabbits for Sale
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 2nd January 1897.
This cutting details the case brought against 2 shopkeepers on the Soho Road for selling skinned rabbits that where unfit for human ...
Sad Death at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the Handsworth Herald relates the death of Miss Emily Lindsay from Wellhead Lane. She had suffered from consumption for some time but had seemed healthy until a few days before ...
Strange Death of a Prisoner at Perry Barr
This newscutting reports the death of a woman in the cells at Perry Barr police station. She was found lying across the railway line and taken to the police station. She asked to be left alone and ...
Suicide of a Barmaid at Perry Barr
A newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection reporting on the death of Maude Edith Hawkes, a barmaid from the Fox Inn, Holly Lane, Perry Barr. She died after drinking a solution of 'Battle's Vermin ...
Suicide through toothache
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail April 4th 1896.
This is a report following the inquest into the death of Thomas Anderson of Perry Barr. Anderson who lived in Wellington Road. Shot himself ...
Suspicious Death in Birmingham
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the inquest into the death of William Newton of Franchise Street, Perry Barr. He had been out drinking at the Freeholder's Arms and the next ...