Birmingham presents Lloyd George with the Freedom of the City
A ticket for the ceremony at the Town Hall when the Council presented David Lloyd George with the Freedom of the City. All presumably went well but many of those present (including Lloyd George) would ...
Boulton Road, Handsworth
Boulton Road, Handsworth, on the occasion of a bomb scare nearby, October 1974
Boulton Road, Handsworth
Boulton Road, Handsworth, on the occasion of a bomb scare nearby in October 1974
Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker- Lampson - 1922 Election Poster
Commander Lampson was the Conservative candidate for the 1922 General Election. The sitting MP Ernest Meysey-Thompson had retired and Lampson was selected as his replacement. Lampson had served in the ...
Councillor W.J. Lancaster J.P.
William James Lancaster was born in Birmingham on the 9th of April, 1846. His love of science is an hereditary possession, for not only his father but his forefathers for several generations were also ...
Dave Butcher & Police
This was taken on the occasion of the IWA demonstration in Saltley. At one point the police took Dave and Sebastian from the demonstration.
David Cameron
David Cameron visits Edward Road Police Station. February 2006
David Cameron
David Cameron visits Edward Road Police Station. February 2006
Demonstration Against Police Brutality
Demonstrators marched from Handsworth to Steelhouse Lane Police station to protest about police brutality towards black people.
Demonstration Against Racist Attacks, Soho Road
Dr Robert Dunstan - Ladywood politician
Robert Dunstan stood for the Labour Party in Ladywood at the 1923 General Election where he managed to reduce the sitting Conservative MP Neville Chamberlain's majority to 1,554. He became disillusioned ...
Edward James Abbott - Conservative Politician
Edward James Abbott lived at The Austins on Sandwell Lane, he was the last occupant of the house. This biography is taken from the Handsworth Magazine.
"He was born on November 5, 1835, and is therefore ...
Election Address List for Norman Tiptaft 1918
Tiptaft was the Independent candidate for the 1918 General Election. This poster was used to promote his list of meetings in Handsworth in the run up to the election. Tiptaft appeared at:
Kynoch's ...
Election card for Neville Chamberlain
A "thank you" card sent out on behalf of Neville Chamberlain to his supporters in the General Election of 15th November 1922. Chamberlain was returned as MP for Ladywood beating Dr R. Dunstan of the Labour ...
Election in Edgbaston
This card was delivered to addresses in Eardley-Wilmot's constituency to drum up votes for the election. the card was sent to the then City Librarian H. Pearson. The polling station was at the junction ...
Election notice for Henry Joseph Odell
Odell was the Labour candidate for the December 1918 General Election. Odell lived and worked in Handsworth; he was a button maker and lived at 66 Whitehall Road.
Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson MP
Meysey-Thompson (1859-1944) was a Justice of the Peace and also MP for Handsworth from 1906 to 1922. Apart from being an MP his principal career was in the army. He was a Major in the Hussars and became ...
General Election 1918 - Handsworth Poll Results
The totals as listed in this cutting from the Birmingham Gazette of Monday 30th December 1918 are:
E.C. Maysey-Thompson (Coalition Unionist) 12,019
Norman Tiptaft (Independent) 4,697
Henry Joseph ...