Cable Tram on Soho Road
The number 95 cable tram to New Inns. According to the caption the tram is pictured on the Soho Road. Trams carried advertising for products of the day - on this tram are adverts for Birds Custard (produced ...
Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Handsworth
Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Soho Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. Opened in 1930, the church had been founded in 1737 in Cannon Street, Birmingham, but had been demolished when Corporation ...
Carnival Procession 2003 - filmed by Milton Godfrey
The annual Birmingham Carnival held in Handsworth. This video focuses on the procession through the streets and the amazing colourful costumes.
Communities in Handsworth after 1945
Text: Malcolm Dick and Rajinder K Dudrah
Sections
1. Handsworth Today
2. Handsworth and the Soho Road
3. 1945-1970
4. 1970-1985
5. 1985
6. After 1985
7. The Multicultural Soho Road
8. The ...
Council House, Handsworth
The Council House, Soho Road, Handsworth, built in 1878/79 for Handsworth Urban District Council. Part of the building formed the Library and Reading Room, opened in 1880. This 1983 view reveals that ...
Council House, Handsworth
Council House, Handsworth, built for Handsworth Urban District Council in 1878/79. The caption on this postcard view calls it the 'Town Hall'.
Council House, Handsworth
Council House, Handsworth, built as the offices of Handsworth Urban District Council in 1878/79 on the site of the Waggon and Horses Inn
Council House, Handsworth
Council House, Handsworth, the offices of Handsworth Urban District Council. Erected in 1878/79 the building also housed the public library.
Davis West Indian Bakery - Soho Road
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
One does not have to venture far on the Soho Road to see the variety of colours, to smell the different aromas and to feel the textures of several fruit and vegetables, ...
Demonstration Against Racist Attacks, Soho Road
Donald McIntosh - Outfitter
Donald McIntosh traded from 130 Soho Road next to the Frighted Horse Public House.
This advert is taken from the programme for the Saint James' Church Fancy Fair held at the New Inns Assembly Rooms November ...
Edward Harry Jukes - Grocer
Edward Jukes traded at 311 Soho Road, right next to the junction with Boulton Road. His speciality "Boultonwattee" is of interest with it's clear local appeal. Presumably the tea was just packaged differently ...
Emvee furniture by Morgan and Viggers
Sales of furniture by Morgan & Viggers Ltd, of 81, 83, 85 Soho Road. The premises would have been roughly halfway between the junctions of Piers Road and Holliday Road. The shop sold period furniture, ...
Envy Music
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
The Soho Road houses several South Asian music and video retail stores. These date back to the late sixties and early seventies, when mainly Indian shopkeepers began to ...
Envy Music
Detail from Envy Music's window on the Soho Road.
F. E. Spencer - Baker and Confectioner
Francis Edmund Spencer ran a bakery opposite the Library. He also had premises at number 93 on Holyhead Road so it would seem his "fancy" flour and delivery service were very popular in Victorian and ...
Gurdwara Yaad Baba Deep Singh JI Shaheed
Stands on the Soho Road. Photograph taken one afternoon in Ocotber 2003.
Guru Nanak Gurdwara
Located on the Soho Road. The first was opened in 1970 in a former Polish nighclub. This building is an imposing feature of the Handsworth landscape.