Vietnamese New Year
The Ancestors ceremony at the New Year celebrations.
Vietnamese New Year
Members, supporters and officers of the MVCA at the New Year celebrations in 1998.
Vietnamese New Year
The Lord Mayor gives a New Year greeting to the Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese New Year
The Catholic priest Dac Tien Nguyen gives New Year greetings to the Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese New Year
Reverend Thich Phuoc Hue gives New Year greetings to the Vietnamese people.
View from Lozells Road looking towards Malthouse Gardens
View from St Paul's Church
In the 1970s most of Balsall Heath between Moseley Rd and Pershore Road was demolished to make way for new developments. The top of Moseley Road Library can be seen in the front of the picture and Mount ...
View from the tower of St Mary's Church
Handsworth park grounds run right up St Mary's.
Villa Cross cinema, Handsworth
The Villa Cross cinema, Heathfield Road, Handsworth, at the junction with Lozells Road. Opened as the New Picture House in 1915, the cinema closed in April 1970. The photograph was taken in September ...
Villa Cross public house, Handsworth
The Villa Cross public house, Handsworth, in around 1985. The view is looking east along Lozells Road. Heathfield Road is just out of sight on the left.
Photographer unknown.
Villa Road
View taken in 1985
Villa Road, Handsworth
39-41 Villa Road, Handsworth. The decorative woodwork all round the eaves is particularly interesting, but when this photograph was taken in January 1981 the building was in a sad state of repair.
Vote Yes
"Vote Yes" reads the spray painted words on the roller blind of a shop in the Bell Barn Shopping Centre off Cregoe Street in Lee Bank. The message was encouraging local residents to vote in favour of ...
W.E.L.D. Community Education and Arts Centre
Waggon & Horses Public House
The Waggon & Horses on the corner of Moseley Road and Balsall Heath Road. This was one of the oldest public houses in the area, built in about 1835, but has now sadly been demolished
Waiting for Churchill
Children from St George's and The Oratory Ladywood Schools waiting for the arrival of "Winston Churchil" at the 60th Anniversary of VE Day celebrations at St John's Church in Ladywood.
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 ...
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 ...