Bristol Street junction with Lee Bank Middleway - by Year Five at Woodview School
This view is looking towards St Luke's Church and Matthew Boulton Technical College - both buidlings due to be demolished as part of the urban regeneration of the area.
Bristol Street part 2 in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following roads: Brixham Road, Broad Lane, Broad Road. Use the "zoomify" tab to read the text.
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
201 Bristol Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 11 October 1960. Number 201, in the centre, belonged to S. Cole & Co., wine and spirit merchants. To the left, apparently offering personal services, is Birmingham ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
A scene in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, forming part of a collection of photographs taken in the Lee Bank area not long before demolition and redevelopment in the 1950s and 1960s. This one was probably taken ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
Rear view of properties in Bristol Street, Lee Bank. Bristol Street forms one side of one of the postwar Comprehensive Dedevelopment Areas where large-scale demolition and redevelopment took place. The ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
A terrace of early 19th-century houses in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, probably photographed in the early 1950s. These quite handsome houses with their bay windows were all swept away during postwar redevelopment. ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
In this view looking towards the city in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, resurfacing work is well under way. There is a reason why only a strip down the centre is being resurfaced: the road is being restored ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
Without further information it is not so easy to pinpoint this location, but it is towards the southern end of Bristol Street, Lee Bank. On 27th October 1965, when this photograph was taken, the buildings ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
This scene in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, cannot date from much later than 1960 as the whole of this west side of Bristol Street was soon to be swept aside to make way for road widening. By 1965 this side ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
This row of shops was on the west side of Bristol Street, Lee Bank, on the corner of Spring Vale, just visible on the left. All of this disappeared in the construction of Lee Bank Middleway and its junction ...
Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
Broadway Cinema
The West End Brewery owned by George Hemming & Sons stood at the corner of Wrentham Street in 1889. It was on this site in September 1911 that building began on a cinema. Designed by Harold Seymore Scott ...
Building the Etap Hotel
The hotel, at the Bristol Street end of great Colmore Street, was constructed in modular fashion. Each room being dropped into place and connected to the next. In the background are the lovely top floors ...
Canon Edward F. Fenn
Father Fenn founded the Mission of St. Catherine in the Horsefair. He was born in Wolverhampton on 4th September 1837. After spending one year working at St. Chad's Cathedral he arrived in Bristol Street ...
Cloakroom area in St Lukes School
Although closed in 2000 as a school, the building still retains many reminders of the past. The cloakroom area to the left is an obvious one but also the frieze paper still on the walls to the right. ...
Double bill at The Bristol
Advert from The Birmingham Despatch of 24th January 1958. This "Horror" double bill was apparently not for the nervous! Frankenstein came out in 1931 and was directed by James Whale. Horror film legend ...
Entrance to St Lukes School
Now a Sure Start centre. This was St Luke's Primary School and the old front entrance still clearly reminds us of this fact some four years after the school's closure! Countless numbers of children passed ...