Grove Lane, Handsworth
Grove Lane, Handsworth, showing the extension to Handsworth Park opened in 1898.
Guinea Gardens
View in one of the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road. These gardens along with farms and orchards spread across this area to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
View of one of the Guinea Gardens off Wesbourne Road. These gardens used to spread across the Edgbaston area as far as Holloway Head. The last remaining Gardens, which achieved a heyday in the Victorian ...
Handsworth Cemetery
Model of a proposed shrine for Handsworth Cemetery viewd from the south/ front elevation. Undated.
This image is from the collection in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, Birmingham.
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Handsworth Cemetery
Steps leading to the Chapel in the middle distance.
Handsworth Cemetery
Handsworth Cemetery, The first burial at the cemetery in 1909
Handsworth Cemetery
Selected views of the Chapel and main gates. The cemetery's first burial took place on November 22nd 1909.
Handsworth Cemetery Chapel
The memorial stone for the chapel was laid by Alfred Sanders JP on September 22nd 1909.
Handsworth Cemetery Chapel - Sites and Monuments Record
Designed and built 1909-10 by WH Bidlake in an Arts and Crafts style. The Chapel is red brick in English bond; white stone dressings; slate roof. There are Six bays, the 4th wider than the others and ...
Handsworth Cemetery Chapel from the Drive
The memorial stone for the chapel was laid by Alfred Sanders J.P. September 22nd 1909. The cemetery was opened in 1909 and was built on the site of an eighteenth century house called The Leveretts.
The ...
Handsworth Cemetery Gates - Sites and Monuments Record
Iron gates and four sets of gate piers to Handsworth Cemetery immediately to SE of the Lodge. Circa 1909 and presumably designed by WH Bidlake. The style is approximately early Eighteenth Century. Swept-up ...
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
Model of the shrine in a garden of rest proposed for Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth. The view is from the south, showing the front elevation.
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
The gates at the Camp Lane entrance to Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth, on 18th July 1963. Land formerly belonging to The Leveretts was laid out as the new cemetery in 1909, the first burial taking place ...
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
The two lodges at the entrance to Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth, at the junction of Park Lane (to the left) and Camp Lane (to the right). The lodges, built in the Regency style, originally belonged ...
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
The entrance to Handsworth Cemetery in Camp Lane, Handsworth. The cemetery, covering 69 acres, opened in 1909 and was created from the grounds of The Leveretts (although the house itself was not demolished ...
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
Interior of Handsworth Cemetery chapel, Handsworth, in a photograph dating from 1925. The chapel is contemporary with the opening of the cemetery in 1909.
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
A view of the interior of the chapel at Handsworth Cemetery, photographed in 1925. The chapel was built in 1909, when the cemetery first opened.
Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth
A model, dating from the 1950s, of a proposed garden of rest to be laid out at Handsworth Cemetery, Handsworth. The view is from the south, looking towards the shrine.