Rookery Road Blitz damage
Bomb damage in Rookery Road during the blitz of 1942. The photographer's viewpoint is from just inside Uplands Road looking onto Rookery Road. The Uplands Road strreet sign is visible on the left hand ...
Rookery Road School
The Jones and Davies family at Rookery Road School, Handsworth. c.1925
Rookery Road School, Handsworth
To the rear of the class is the then headmaster Mr G. Challenor. The flag hanging at the back was presented to the school but the remaining inscription is too difficult to make out. The flag looks like ...
Rookery Road Wedding
This picture was taken outside Rookery Road Methodist Church. The bridesmaid is Eunice McGhie-Belgrave and she made both of the dresses. At the time Mrs McGhie was running a dressmaking business in Handsworth....
Rookery Road, Handsworth
Rookery Road, opposite Albert Road, Handsworth, 1898
Rookery Road, Handsworth
Rural scene with the corn harvested and in stooks, a photograph taken from the junction of Rookery and Albert Roads, Handsworth, 1898. In the distance the spire of the Asbury Memorial Church is visible....
Starling Garage - "Automobile Engineers"
An advertisement for "Starling Garage"
in the programme of the Saint James Church Fancy Fair held on 20th till 23rd November 1929.
Starling offered overhaul services, motorcar repair, automobile accessories, ...
Trinity Methodist Church
Originally a corrugated iron church called "the tin tabernacle" stood on the site in Rookery Road. The present church was built to these plans in 1914 under the direction of Rev. Harvey Rowe. These plans ...
Trinity Methodist Church, Handsworth
Trinity Methodist Church, Rookery Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. The church dates from 1914.
Weigh-in at the Farcroft Hotel, Handsworth
Weigh-in at the Farcroft Hotel, Rookery Road, Handsworth, on 1st April 1940 between Dick Turpin of Leamington (on the left) and Eddie Maguire of South Africa. The fight, at the Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston, ...