Tree planting on Bell Barn Road
Mature trees were planted as part of the features of the redevelopment of the Lee Bank area. This image was credited as being of Bell Barn Road but the background of Bristol Street means it is the end ...
Trip to Weston Super Mare
Another view of the trip from the Y Block area to Weston Super Mare. This presumably is the party from the "other" coach as they look to be a different group to the people in the first photograph.
VE Day in Cregoe Street
Cregoe Street party to celebrate the end of the Second World War. VE Day was officially on May 8th but this party may have been held after that date. The location is the "lower end" of Cregoe Street which ...
Victorian houses on Ryland Road - by Year Five at Woodview School
Most of the houses at the Middleway end of the road are Georgian but these two were obviously different in design and style which the children could clearly see. Close inspection revealed both houses ...
View from above
Looking down from the new flats on the Wheeley's Lane/ Bath Row junction. Below is Bexhill Grove which stands on the route of the former Piggot Street. The blue building in the middle is the Crest Nicholson ...
Waiting for school to open
Two pupils of St Thomas's School (Granville Street) peer through the railings as work begins on the new school in Great Colmore Street. To the rear is the spire of St Thomas's Church and just to its left ...
Waiting for the number 8
A familiar site is the people waiting and looking down Lee Bank Middleway for a number 8 bus going up to Five Ways. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat across the road. Its an ordinary everyday ...
Waiting for the park to open
Children from St Thomas's School in Great Colmore Street waiting at the gate for the official opening of the new park. Sunset Park was opened with the help of children from St Thomas's and Woodview School ...
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.
Waiting for Will Smith
Hospitality staff walk up the famous red carpet while security wait for Will to arrive. Will Smith was in Birmingham for the premiere of "Hitch".
Walking and talking
The first of two pictures. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat of a couple deep in conversation. The outcome in the second picture shows them walking with a suitcase. The story behind it though ...
Walter Langley - Exhibition
An exhibition of some work by local artist, Walter Langley.
Langley was born in Irving Street on June 8th 1852, the son of William Langley (a Birmingham tailor) and Mary Ann Langley. He was apprenticed ...
Walter Langley: 'But men must work and women must weep...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) after his upbringing in Irving Street, and his training at South Kensington School of Art moved to Cornwall and devoted his painting career to scenes of life in Cornish fishing ...
Walter Langley: 'Disaster! Scene in a Cornish fishing village'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events ...
Walter Langley: 'Memories'
Walter Langley, born in 1852 and brought up in Irving Street, later became part of the Newlyn School of English painters. His subject matter was largely the lives of Cornish fisherfolk, and 'Memories' ...
Walter Langley: 'Never morning wore to evening...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was born in Birmingham and was brought up in Irving Street. He trained at South Kensington School of Art (1873-75) and later on, in 1882, went to live in Newlyn, Cornwall, as ...
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 ...
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 ...