Moores on Windmill Street
Tony Moores was a leather manufacturer in Windmill Street. This staff photograph was taken outside the shopfront. Amongst the group are: Pamela Jones (2nd left), Faye ? (3rd left), Mary Dawkins (crouching ...
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1889 Ordnance Survey map covering the central housing/ shopping area of Edgbaston B15 - later Lee Bank.
Walter Langley - Exhibition
An exhibition of some work by local artist, Walter Langley.
Langley was born in Irving Street on June 8th 1852, the son of William Langley (a Birmingham tailor) and Mary Ann Langley. He was apprenticed ...
Walter Langley: 'But men must work and women must weep...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) after his upbringing in Irving Street, and his training at South Kensington School of Art moved to Cornwall and devoted his painting career to scenes of life in Cornish fishing ...
Walter Langley: 'Disaster! Scene in a Cornish fishing village'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events ...
Walter Langley: 'Memories'
Walter Langley, born in 1852 and brought up in Irving Street, later became part of the Newlyn School of English painters. His subject matter was largely the lives of Cornish fisherfolk, and 'Memories' ...
Walter Langley: 'Never morning wore to evening...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was born in Birmingham and was brought up in Irving Street. He trained at South Kensington School of Art (1873-75) and later on, in 1882, went to live in Newlyn, Cornwall, as ...
Walter Langley: 'O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was a genre painter favouring fishing village scenes which are a far cry from his childhood in Irving Street, Edgbaston (now in Lee Bank). From 1882 he lived in Cornwall at ...
William Edwards War
This is the war diary of William Edwards who lived in the Edgbaston B15 area.
Driver W.G. Edwards (1892470) from Irving Street is on the front row in white gaiters next to the Alsatian.
William Edwards' War Diary page one
Edwards married a girl from Irving Street in Lee Bank - or Edgbaston B15 as it was then. During the Tobruk campaign he kept a diary which we are publishing here for the first time. Where words are unclear ...
William Edwards' War Diary pages 2 and 3
Edwards married a girl from Irving Street in Lee Bank - or Edgbaston B15 as it was then. During the Tobruk campaign he kept a diary which we are publishing here for the first time. Where words are unclear ...
Wright and Platt on Irving Street
On the corner of Irving Street and Speaking Stile Walk used to stand Wright and Platt. Wright and Platt were a firm of pattern makers.