Dinner Ladies at Holyhead School, Handsworth
"Holyhead School in Handsworth. At the time I was the Director of the West Midlands Ethnic Minority Arts Service based at Holyhead School. Each day I would go into the kitchen and charm the dinner ladies ...
Dinner Ladies at Holyhead School, Handsworth
"Holyhead School in Handsworth. Dinner ladies having fun after a long day of cooking and cleaning up." Pogus Caesar, February 2003
Five Ways School Magazine
Front cover of the Five Ways School Magazine, Christmas term 1939.
The sketch shows the fromnt of the building as it appeared at the time. The school moved to Bartley Green in 1958. The original building ...
Girls Playing in Grass
Doctor Winkley in association with some other teachers had access to a property near Tamworth, where students could go to escape from the 'concrete jungle'. One of the girls in the photograph returned ...
Grove Lane J & I
Gymn class at Grove Lane Junior and Infant School
Handsworth College, Friary Road
Handsworth Wesleyan Theological College, Friary Road, Handsworth. Designed by Messrs Ball & Goddard of Birmingham the college was opened in 1881 and is now a Grade II listed building forming part of the ...
Handsworth District Council Medal for Perfect Attendance
This was presented to Dora Howell of Rookery Road Council School in 1910. This is the reverse of the medal.
Handsworth District Council Medal for Perfect Attendance
This was presented to Dora Howell of Rookery Road Council School in 1910. This is the obverse of the medal.
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane, Handsworth. It was founded with a grant from the Bridge Trust and opened, as the Bridge Trust School, on 5th August 1862 with 59 pupils. The name was changed ...
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane
Handsworth Grammar School opened as the Bridge Trust School on 5th August 1862. The original building cost £2,300 and consisted of one large schoolroom, two smaller classrooms, a cloakroom, a porch and ...
Handsworth Students at St Philip's Cathedral
School students from Handsworth in performance at St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham City Centre.
Handsworth Wood Boys' School
Handsworth Wood Boys' School opened in 1958 at the same time as the adjoining Handsworth Wood Girls' School, the entrance to both schools being situated on Church Lane. In 1998 the Boys' School was closed ...
Handsworth Wood Boys' School
Promotional leaflet.
Handsworth Wood Girls School
"Some of the puoils involved in the Mental Health drama production at Handsworth Wood Girls School". (E.McGhie-Belgrave)
Hansom cab outside Laurels School
This photograph of a Hansom cab was taken outside the Laurels School at the corner of Handsworth Wood Road and Wood Lane.
The Laurels had been known as Hunts Green in the late eighteenth century. ...
Holyhead School, Handsworth
"Members of the hockey team take a break from practising, Holyhead School in Handsworth, Birmingham." Pogus Caesar, February 2003.
James Henry Stone
Benjamin's Stone's brother, James Henry, died in December 1908. He was a JP and lived at his house, The Dene, in Sutton Coldfield. For most of his life though he lived at Grosvenor Road in Handsworth. ...
Kim Hancock interview
Kim Hancock was born in Handsworth in 1957 and her parents and grandmother were also born in Handsworth. She talks about the changes in the area and in her own life in the 1960s and 70s:
To listen ...