Wheeley's Lane, Lee Bank
59 Wheeley's Lane, Lee Bank, photographed on 20 July 1960. In the directories G.M. Jones is listed as a beer retailer, the name over the shop window indicating that the beer in question was Ansells. More ...
Wheeley's Lane/ Islington Row Offices
Offices of Khanna & Company and Mian & Company. The offices occupy the site of Betholom Row which was the heart of the Jewish community in the Five Ways area.
When I moved in here...
‘When I moved in here I had nine months to get everything I needed for a flat and a baby. It was an emergency move so I just took what I could. But I can’t plan anything at the moment because we don’t ...
Wild flowers on Lee Bank
These flowers, growing amidst all the redevelopment of Lee Bank, are on the bank on Bristol Street. It is this bank which still annually displays the crocuses forming the words "Birmingham Superprix - ...
Wilkes Greengrocers, Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
The premises of F.W. Wilkes, greengrocers, of 118/119 Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, are seen here in a photograph taken on 4 July 1964. The shop was on the north side of the street, at the junction ...
Windmill Street
Windmill Street still exists today but has little in the way of buildings on it. It used to have a range of shops plus these steps leading (I think) down towards Bow Street? The street was named after ...
Winter in Lee Bank
From the collection of the late May Williams comes this seasonal image looking towards the former Community Centre and the former Packwood House. In the forground can be seen part of the old parkland ...
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 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 ...
Wynn Street
Wynn Street during the urban renewal of what was to become Lee Bank. Great Colmore Street is visible in the background and the empty space is partly where the park area was to be along with the Y Blocks ...
Wynn Street
This is probably taken in the nineteen fifties by the Public Works Department. it is difficult to work out where this is on Wynn Street - the door to the extreme right has a number 1 on it and a message ...
You want to watch how you knock on the doors you know...
‘You want to watch how you knock on the doors you know. People’ll be flushing their stash down the bogs.
I’ve just moved in a few days ago. It’s a bit rough but it’s all right. I was staying in Edgbaston ...