Alfred Knight VC from the Post Office Rifles
Alfred is pictured here with his wife Mabel relaxing while on leave from the front. Knight was awarded the Victoria Cross for his series of gallant actions at Ypres on the 19th to 20th September. Knight ...
Alfred Knight Way
The family of the late Alfred Knight VC gathered by the road named in his honour. On 9th November they were present at the opening of this new road in the Park Central development of Birmingham. Knight ...
Alfred Smith - Grave at Keyhill Cemetery
Alfred Smith served with the RAF in World War Two. He was killed on 17th June 1941 and is buried at Keyhill Cemetery in Birmingham. Smith was an aircraftman second class in 218 squadron of the Royal Airforce ...
Alfred Tennyson Dickens at the Town Hall
There is no year on this item, just the day and month of 20th February, but Dickens died early in 1912 in New York so it dates from within a few years before that. Alfred was the godson of Alfred Tennyson ...
All Saints Church
Unknown location.
All Saints Church (reverse of postcard)
This postcard was sent by a mother to her convalescing son, a World War One casualty. Private Harold Willey (16629) survived the War. his convalescence was at the Battenhall Red Cross Hospital in Worcestershire. ...
Alston Street
Coley's Privision Shop at the junction with Johnstone Street. Both streets have since been demolished but this crossroads lies near to Rodney Close.
Anderton Street
Norman Bartlam writes that: This picture and others like it filled the pages of the local press as a prelude to a visit to the area by Housing Minister Richard Crossman. After the ministerial visit, which ...
Anderton Street
Josephine Codling lived at 115 Anderton Street. She is seen here holding her son Ricky and (on the right) her friend's son David Bannister.
Anderton Street celebrates
The residents are gathered to celebrate the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The boy on the right in the white peaked cap is Ernie Pearce. Leslie Checkley, who donated the photograph, recalled ...
Anderton Street Coronation celebrations
Street party celebrating the coronation of George VI on May 12th 1937 at Westminster Abbey. This photograph was taken in the yard of 2 back Anderton Street.
Anderton Street Recreation Ground
Taken circa 1955. The two little boys are Ray and Graham Usher.
Annual Fuchsia Show, St Thomas' School
Poster for the Annual Fuchsia Show held by the Birmingham and District Fuchsia Society at St Thomas' School on Great Colmore Street.
Archdale and Company, Ledsam Street
Front of a catalogue for the Manchester Works site of James Archdale and Company. The site was on Ledsam Street. Many Ladywood locals were employed here.
ARP Shelter toilets at George Road
The toilet cubicles in the shelter are between the main rooms. All of the doors have now gone but some of the pans and cisterns remain, one or two still being apparently useable.
ARP shelter under George Road
The former air-raid shelter consists of a maze of corridors and rooms, unused since the end of World War II. This is one of the corridors with the painted "no smoking" sign still in evidence on the wall....
Ashbourne Road
Ashbourne Road lies off Shenstone and Rotton Park Road not far from the Cape Hill Brewery. The houses are not so different today. This is one of the Nightingales postcard series.
At Davos For The Duration
This article was printed in the Weekly Post. Davos was the home of Christian Kunzle who owned the Kunzle's factory and cake shops in Birmingham. Kunzle came from Davos in Switzerland and every year he ...