Advertisement for W.R. Lowe, greengrocer
This advertisement for W.R. Lowe, greengrocer, of 16 Cox Street West must date from the 1930s. William Lowe's business first appears in directories in that decade, but neither he nor his address appear ...
Advertisement for Wathes, Cattell and Gurden, Birmingham
Undated advertisement for Wathes, Cattell & Gurden Ltd, dairymen, of Nova Scotia Street, Ladywood. The advertisement, featuring their trade name, 'Wacaden', has the look of the 1950s about it and the ...
Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.
These adverts are taken from the church magazine from the pre - First World War period. The first advert is for the Edgbaston Dye Works run W. and S. Ragg and son. who had two establishments - one at ...
Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.
Two adverts for local businesses from the Oratory church magazine. Church magazines contained many adverts of this nature. Rudge, Brown and Co. were a coal merchants at Monument Lane Wharf off St Vincent ...
Aerial view of central Lee Bank
This view shows two obvious landmarks from the air - the park to the left and the Holloway Head playing fields to the middle top. Other landmarks are visible too such as St Thomas's Church Tower on Bath ...
Aerial view of Woodview
This rare aerial view is from 1967. The tall tower block at the middle top of the photograph is Haddon Tower. To the right of it is St Luke's Church on Bristol Street. Following the road down from St ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page one)
This Agreement made on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety one between the Reverend Frank Scott Webster MA, John Walford Lea and Edward King Mason on behalf of the managers of ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page two)
...regularly and punctually make such returns as may from time to time be required.
4. The said Managers agree to pay the said Teacher a salary of one hundred and thirty pounds per annum payable by ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Robert Birch
The agreement drawn up to appoint Harry Birch as headmaster of St Thomas's School. The document was amended on November 13th 1903 to account for out of school activities.
Birch was living in Park Street, ...
Albert Edward Heaton
Albert Heaton was the Vicar of St Luke's Church in Bristol Street from 1909 to 1926.
Alderman F.C. Clayton, Mayor of Birmingham
Francis Corder Clayton was born in Kelvedon, Essex, in 1843 and came to Birmingham as a young man to work in the chemical manufacturing industry for J. & E. Sturge in Wheeley's Lane. In the 1881 Census ...
Alfred Knight VC from the Post Office Rifles
Alfred is pictured here with his wife Mabel relaxing while on leave from the front. Knight was awarded the Victoria Cross for his series of gallant actions at Ypres on the 19th to 20th September. Knight ...
Annual Fuchsia Show, St Thomas' School
Poster for the Annual Fuchsia Show held by the Birmingham and District Fuchsia Society at St Thomas' School on Great Colmore Street.
Arlington House off Charlotte Road
Located on the Woodview estate and built as part of the new council house estate in that area. Woodview is undergoing (2005) massive transformation as part of the Optima Community Association's redevelopment ...
ARP Shelter toilets at George Road
The toilet cubicles in the shelter are between the main rooms. All of the doors have now gone but some of the pans and cisterns remain, one or two still being apparently useable.
ARP shelter under George Road
The former air-raid shelter consists of a maze of corridors and rooms, unused since the end of World War II. This is one of the corridors with the painted "no smoking" sign still in evidence on the wall....
Ashbourne Road
Ashbourne Road lies off Shenstone and Rotton Park Road not far from the Cape Hill Brewery. The houses are not so different today. This is one of the Nightingales postcard series.
At Davos For The Duration
This article was printed in the Weekly Post. Davos was the home of Christian Kunzle who owned the Kunzle's factory and cake shops in Birmingham. Kunzle came from Davos in Switzerland and every year he ...