Balsall Heath Panthers Cycle Club
A crowd watching the Panthers in action on their track alongside Balsall Heath Road. It is noticeable that there appears to be no barrier for the crowd to stand behind at all!
Balsall Heath Panthers Cycle Club
The Panthers in action on their track alongside Balsall Heath Road.
Balushahi
Balushahi (Urdu: بالوشاھی; Hindi: बालुशाही) is a traditional dessert in Northern Indian, Pakistani and Nepali ...
Barbers on Ladypool Road
Children from Anderton Park Primary School looking into a Barber's Shop on Ladypool Road as part of a project looking at how the road has changed in the last 100 years
Barber's pole on Ladypool Road
The traditional sign of a barber dates back to medieval times. The origin of the red and white pole is associated with the service of bloodletting and was historically a representation of bloody bandages ...
Beechfield Avenue
This road runs between Ladypool Road and Mole Street.
Belgrave Road (Mary Street) School Report
Keith Whitehouse's school report, signed by the class teacher and Mr Mundy Head of the school. Keith excels at English and the arts. Perhaps it’s a pointer to his later career in the arts?
Big Banana at the Carnival
A 3 person sculpture in the form of a banana.
Birmingham Centenary Pageant
A young Mr Bradbury, of local metalworkers Bradbury's, inspects the armour made by the family firm in Highgate. The pageant was one of many held across the country in 1938. The Birmingham event was at ...
Birmingham Sports Centre
In March 1988 the Birmingham Athletic Institute became the Birmingham Sports Centre. This meant that the centre was now independant of a larger organisation that had included a dance centre and a sailing ...
Birthday cake on Ladypool Road
This unusual looking birthday cake certainly adds style. There are a growing number of cake and gateau outlets in the area. Taken by pupils from Anderton Park School as part of a project looking at how ...
Bissell Street
Bissell Street, Balsall Heath 1959
Bissell Street
The shop at the far right is unidentifiable apart from a large advertisement for "Wills' Woodbines". The street perhaps was named after Richard Bissell Prosser, the patents examiner and biographer from ...
Bomb damage on Balsall Heath Road
Damaged houses on Balsall Heath Road which was taken after an air raid in the blitz on Birmingham. Balsall Heath was heavily bombed during the Second World War.
Bowled Over By The Golden Hind,1978
"Sir Francis Drake and a considerable chunk of the armada was so good…with a very tall mast. The thing was it didn’t have any means of going under the bridge….so….seeing the bridge coming she said to ...
Bricked up window on Chesterton Road
This is at the junction of Chesterton and Ladypool Road. The bricked up window is one of those sites that is there to see but is often ignored. In many cases around the area it is where a business has ...
Brighton Road
Brighton Road, Balsall Heath. Sign on right is "Painters and Decorators". Old brick built rail bridge in distance.
Brighton Road
Brighton Road, Balsall Heath. Sign at right reads "Mitchell & Butler's Gold Medal Ales".