View from above
Looking down from the new flats on the Wheeley's Lane/ Bath Row junction. Below is Bexhill Grove which stands on the route of the former Piggot Street. The blue building in the middle is the Crest Nicholson ...
View from Lansdown House, Great Colmore Street
Picture taken by Lansdown resident Olive Dowdeswell as her visitors leave down below. In the background we can see the construction of the lytham Croft area of Lee Bank. At one time opposite Lansdown, ...
Vote Yes
"Vote Yes" reads the spray painted words on the roller blind of a shop in the Bell Barn Shopping Centre off Cregoe Street in Lee Bank. The message was encouraging local residents to vote in favour of ...
Waiting for school to open
Two pupils of St Thomas's School (Granville Street) peer through the railings as work begins on the new school in Great Colmore Street. To the rear is the spire of St Thomas's Church and just to its left ...
Waiting for the number 8
A familiar site is the people waiting and looking down Lee Bank Middleway for a number 8 bus going up to Five Ways. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat across the road. Its an ordinary everyday ...
Waiting for the park to open
Children from St Thomas's School in Great Colmore Street waiting at the gate for the official opening of the new park. Sunset Park was opened with the help of children from St Thomas's and Woodview School ...
Walking and talking
The first of two pictures. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat of a couple deep in conversation. The outcome in the second picture shows them walking with a suitcase. The story behind it though ...
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: '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 ...
Washday on Hogarth House
For these two ladies (one is Lewis Green's mother) this was a very different washday experience. Both would have remembered the "brew 'us" in the yards of the back to back housing and the network of lines ...
Washington Street and Holloway Head
Washington Street is running off to the left while Holloway Head is in the foreground. This picture was taken just before the major rebuilding of the area as part of the Bath Row Redevelopment Scheme. ...
West Park area
Prior to the building of the West Park, this is the construction site area. To the distant left is St Thomas's Church, to the middle distance are Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers (The Sentinels) on Holloway ...
Wheeley's Lane Development
Building work in progress on the Crest Nicholson development off Wheeley's Lane. These properties are now (2005) finished and occupied. The development is part of the ongoing urban renewal and regeneration ...
Wheeley's Lane Development
The Crest Nicholson development of the Wheeley's Lane area of Lee Bank. These blocks have radically changed the look of this part of Birmingham.
Wheeley's Lane turns off Bath Row onto and across Islington ...
Wheeleys Lane near Bath Row
This view is of the top end of Wheeleys Lane in 1960. Straight ahead in the distance to the left of the picture is Bath Row. Today this view is unrecognisable due to the total redevelopment of the area. ...