Woodview Drive during the flood
Picture from the Birmingham Evening Mail taken by George Fox who was a student at Birmingham Polytechnic. Firemen had to come and help evacuate people stranded by the exceptional flooding on May 21st ...
Woodview School children at opening of Moonlit Park
Half of the new park area of Attwood Green was opened in 2005. The area comprises of two "wings" - Moonlit Park and Sunset Park, the names being selected by local residents. Moonlit Park was officially ...
Woodview School field - by Year Five at Woodview
This is a school gate in front of the Woodview Primary School.
Woodview to Lee Bank
View looking over Lee Bank Primary School towards central Lee Bank in the distance. St Thomas's Church spire on Bath Row is visible to the right in the distance as is the Telecom Tower.
Woodview towards Lee Bank
An aerial view showing the changes in progress during the urban renewal leading to the creation of the Lee Bank estate. Avon House of the Y Blocks on Great Colmore Street is visible to the top of the ...
Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Lee Bank
A scene on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal in the Lee Bank area, with a boat heading for the Bath Row bridge and, less than a mile further on, the Gas Street Basin. Also in evidence in this 1979 view ...
Work on the new Woodview Park
Kendricks construction company site for the park/ play area on the Woodview estate.
Working on Mary Street
Elizabeth McKeon didn't have far to go when she started work on Mary Street in the sixties.
"My first job was at H (Harry) Monty a firm of seamstresses making dresses. For my job interview I wore a ...
Working the sound system at a party
This photograph was taken in Walsall as part of Caribbean Focus exhibition, and is held in Walsall Library Local History Department.
Workmen's Cottages in Foundry Road
The cottages were lived in by workmen from the nearby Soho Foundry. The plaque on the wall by the left hand door commemorates that William Murdock, Boulton and Watt's Chief Engineer, lived there following ...
Works Outing
This photograph is of a Freeman and Ward works outing in 1945.
Wrensons Advert
This was in the Birmingham Mail. Wrensons had several stores across the city including in Ladywood.
Wrestling at the Rezza in the Tower Ballroom
There is no date other than 29th October but it is probably from the 1930's judging from other material in the same volume. Information on who these wrestlers were is difficult to come by on the internet ...
Wretham Road Church
Built in 1876, at a cost of £11,500, the Wretham Road Swedenborgian Church is in a decorated gothic style.
Wretham Road New Church
Programme for an event held on April 4th 1877 at the church. The church was opened on 22nd November 1876 and eventually sold in 1974 when a new centre was was established at Oaklands in Winleigh Road, ...
Wretham Road New Church, Handsworth
Interior of the New Church, Wretham Road, Handsworth. The 'New Church' is a sect formerly known as Swedenborgians and built their church in Wretham Road in 1876. In this dark photograph only the reredos ...
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.
Wycliffe Baptist Church, Bristol Street
A view of Wycliffe Baptist Church, on the corner of Bristol Street and St Luke's Street, Lee Bank. Opened for worship in 1861 this building has been described as the most beautiful Free Church place of ...