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 ...
War Memorial in Handsworth Cemetery
Commemorating the dead of both World Wars.
Warren Farm
Warren Farm photographed for the Perry Hall auction catalogue in 1921.
Warren Road, Perry Barr
Warren Road, Perry Barr, in a scene that would have seemed timeless were it not for the presence of telegraph poles. The photograph was taken in 1928.
Warship Week
Advert from the Birmingham Post for the city's "Warship Week" in 1941. Ten million was trying to be raised for HMS King George V to be adopted by the city for the war.
HMS King George V launched on ...
Warstone Pool, Handsworth
Warstone Pool (also known as Swan Pool), near Forge Lane, Handsworth. 1899
Wartime wedding at St Catherine of Siena
The wedding in April 1916 of Private J. Devaney of the 3rd Worcestershire Regiment to Catherine Hayes of Edgbaston. Having checked the Medal Cards at Kew there is no Private Devaney listed for the Worcesters ...
Warwickshire Laundries, Ladypool Road
Advert for the company reading: "Open the door to freedom, by using the Warwickshire Laundries fully finished service". The laundry was baed at 96 Ladypool Road and had delivery offices from as far away ...
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. ...
Wasiffa Sound System, Handsworth Park
Waste Is Wanted For War Weapons
Publicity poster asking the public to save their waste for the war effort. Suggested material is rags, paper, bones and metal. the poster goes on to point out that: "this week and every week salvage is ...
Waste Paper Warning!.
A poster issued by Birmingham City Council warning that the destruction of waste paper is an offence against the national war effort.
Watercolour of a dog by John Phillp
This watercolour of a dog is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Watercolour of a moonlit seascape by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour of a spaniel's head by John Phillp
This watercolour of a dog's head by John Phillp may show Dash, the favourite dog of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). It is labelled drawn from nature by John Phillp 1796.
The ...
Watercolour of an old key belonging to Matthew Boulton by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour of Garden Temple by John Phillp
This watercolour shows a garden building which is almost certainly the Temple of Flora on the Shell Pool at Soho, the landscaped garden created by industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton.
This ...