Aerial view of Bellis and Morcam factory in 1924
Aerial view of Bristol Street area
This view in 1965 has a few notable landmarks. To the bottom left is the circular dome of St Catherine of Sienna Church. On Bristol Street can be seen the Broadway (later Gala/ Cinephone) Cinema next ...
Aerial view of the Palais De Danse
The Palais De Danse was located on Monument Road in Ladywood. It was a place which held happy memories for thousands of Ladywood residents over the decades.
African Caribbean Bookshop, Handsworth
The Harriet Tubman Bookshop on Grove Lane
African Liberation Day 1977
This picture is edited from a larger print to highlight the contrast between protester's banner and the two union jacks in the windows behind him. It's taken in Holly Road, Handsworth.
African Liberation Day 1981, Drumming Display
It was quite common for people from the Caribbean to be introduced to African culture and traditions, this was sometimes demonstrated by the pouring of libation or master drummers performing the opening ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page one)
This Agreement made on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety one between the Reverend Frank Scott Webster MA, John Walford Lea and Edward King Mason on behalf of the managers of ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page two)
...regularly and punctually make such returns as may from time to time be required.
4. The said Managers agree to pay the said Teacher a salary of one hundred and thirty pounds per annum payable by ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Robert Birch
The agreement drawn up to appoint Harry Birch as headmaster of St Thomas's School. The document was amended on November 13th 1903 to account for out of school activities.
Birch was living in Park Street, ...
Albert Edward Heaton
Albert Heaton was the Vicar of St Luke's Church in Bristol Street from 1909 to 1926.
Albion Picture Palace
The Albion Picture Palace at Holyhead Road opened on December 16th 1915, managed by Harry Calver. The first film shown was "Salambo". It eventually closed on September 24th 1960. This set of plans is ...
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
Old farmhouse at the junction of Aldridge Road and Wellhead Lane, Perry Barr
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
Houses on the Blakelands Estate, off the Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, on 20th September 1934
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
Wellhead farmhouse, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr. When this photograph was taken on 31st January 1973 this house belonged to a car repair firm but it still boasted some extremely ornate bargeboards on the ...
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
The new bridge carrying the Aldridge Road over the River Tame, Perry Barr. Postcard view of the bridge that superseded the Zig-Zag Bridge.
Ale Cellar Stocks, Soho House, 1822
This is the cover of a list of the stock of the ale cellar at Soho House was taken on the 22nd of April 1822. The list itself is also available on this site. By this time the house was lived in by Matthew ...
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.