Autumn Leaves
St Catherine of Sienna Church looms behind the autumn leaves in Lee Bank.
Avon and Nash Houses off Grant Street
This is an undated picture but certainly early seventies. It is a view taken from the park area looking towards the back of Avon and Nash houses.
Avon House
Avon House, one of the three "Y block" flats built off Great Colmore Street as part of the Bath Row Development.
Avon House
One of the Y Block developments constructed in the nineteen fifties. The three blocks were part of what was known as the Bath Row Development and so the names were all chosen with a Bath theme: Avon after ...
Balcony on Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street in Lee Bank. From this balcony you could see over a large part of the redevelopment of the area - in particular the new park.
Bates Newsagents, Lee Bank Road, Lee Bank
Bates Newsagents were to be found at 196 Lee Bank Road, Lee Bank, and the shop is seen here in a photograph dating from 1963. Thomas Bates' shop would have been on the east side of Lee Bank Road, but ...
Bath Row Re-development
Original sketch plan for the Bath Row Re-development, later better known as Lee Bank. In this plan there is little to recognise other than St Thomas's Church at the middle top and St Luke's Church at ...
Bath Row, Lee Bank
The premises of Grosvenor Workman at 32 & 34 Bath Row, Lee Bank, photographed on 11 January 1955. Grosvenor Workman (also listed as Workman Grosvenor) were electro-platers, and 'chromium plating' and ...
Before School
Three children, names unknown, waiting for building to commence on the "new" St Thomas's School in Great Colmore Street. The school had previously been located on the corner of Bath Row and Granville ...
Bell Barn Road
Taken during the redevelopment of Bell Barn Road. The park in the near distance looks complete but in the foreground some roadworks are being undertaken on the junction with Great Colmore Street.
Bell Barn Road
Early twentieth century photograph of Bell Barn Road. The graffiti on the wall to the right of the man reads "Paradise Alley".
Bell Barn Road - Numbers 29 to 34
Taken by Public Works at some time before demolition as part of urban renewal. This style of terraced housing stood the length of Bell Barn Road for decades.
Bell Barn Road and Cregoe Street, Lee Bank
The junction of Bell Barn Road, on the left, and Cregoe Street, heading off to the right. The slogan on the corner of the shop says 'What we do we do well' but it is not clear whether they are still doing ...
Bell Barn Road in the Blitz
A landmine was dropped on Bell Barn Road in February 1941. This is one of several photographs showing the damage caused to housing in the road, Many people lost their homes and some also their lives as ...
Bell Barn Road maisonettes
The junction of Bell Barn Road with Spring Street in 1961. The maisonettes have now since gone.
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, in an undated photograph by E.Woolgar. The view is looking north-westwards, with Wynn Street on the right with the Three Crowns Cafe on the corner. Much had already disappeared ...
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, near Cregoe Street. These Victorian houses, photographed in the 1960s, were on the verge of demolition as the new postwar Lee Bank took shape.
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken on 26 July 1960 during the redevelopment of the area that began in the early 1950s. On the left is part of the public open space that replaced Victorian ...