Victoria Park Extension Medal (reverse)
This medal was issued to commemorate the opening of the extension to Victoria Park on Wednesday 30 March 1898. The Earl of Dartmouth opened the new gates on Hamstead Road with a silver key and declared ...
Victoria Park, Handsworth
Victoria Park, Handsworth. St. Mary's church can be seen through the trees
c1890
Victoria Park, Handsworth
Victoria Park, Handsworth. The fishpond is in the foreground and St. Mary's church can be seen in the distance through the trees. c1890
View from the tower of St Mary's Church
Handsworth park grounds run right up St Mary's.
View of a Sycamore Tree, Perry Park
by Charles Barber (1783 - 1854). He went to Liverpool to teach drawing and painted in oils and watercolours. Charles exhibited regularly at the Liverpool Academy of Arts of which he was a member from ...
View of Perry Barr
By one of the Lines family. This may be drawn somewhere along the River Tame, possibly at Perry Barr Locks. Eight different members of the Lines family have been recorded as having artistic ability. Several ...
View of Perry Park, Perry Barr
Credited to the Barber family.
View of Soho Pool by John Phillp
This pen and ink sketch by John Phillp shows the landscaped park created at Soho by industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). It is looking across Soho Pool with its island. To the ...
Villa Cross Picture House
Interior view looking back from the screen of this picture house. It was built 1914-1915 by M. Round and Sons. It stood in Heathfield road and was built on the site of Shorts Carriage Works. The cinema, ...
Waiting for Will
Cold but still in good spirits this is part of the crowd waiting patiently to see Will Smith attending the premiere of "Hitch" at UGC Broad Street in Birmingham.
Wasiffa Sound System, Handsworth Park
Watercolour study of a cabbage leaf by John Phillp
This study is labelled
'Drawn by John Phillp, from a cabbage which grew in his garden at Handsworth, Staffordshire July 27th 1811.'
It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches ...
Weigh-in at the Farcroft Hotel, Handsworth
Weigh-in at the Farcroft Hotel, Rookery Road, Handsworth, on 1st April 1940 between Dick Turpin of Leamington (on the left) and Eddie Maguire of South Africa. The fight, at the Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston, ...
What's On
Often overlooked as the series run does not commence in earnest until the 1940s period. The 1920s editions are one of the few documents to offer a condensed appreciation of what was taking place in the ...
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 ...
Work on the new Woodview Park
Kendricks construction company site for the park/ play area on the Woodview estate.
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.
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 ...