Brownes Green: Keeper's Cottage
Brownes Green house was demolished at the end of the nineteenth century. It was built towards the end of the eighteenth century by Nathaniel Clarke and stood to the rear of a triangle with Handsworth ...
Brunswick Road
Corner of White Street and Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath before demolition
Brunswick Road
Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath during demolition in the 1970's
Cable Tram on Soho Road
The number 95 cable tram to New Inns. According to the caption the tram is pictured on the Soho Road. Trams carried advertising for products of the day - on this tram are adverts for Birds Custard (produced ...
Cavendish House - home of James Henry Stone
Back view of Cavendish House, Handsworth, the home of James Henry Stone JP, brother of Benjamin Stone. The house stood at 16 Grosvenor Road.
Cavendish House, Grosvenor Road, Handsworth
Cavendish House, Grosvenor Road, Handsworth.
This house was owned by James Henry Stone the brother of John Benjamin Stone J.P., Photographer and Councillor.
Children in Back Yard, Handsworth
Church Hill House or The Endwood Public House
There has been a Church Hill House since 1538. The house on the site now was extensively remodelled around 1820. The Muntz family lived here for some years in the late eighteenth century.
It then ...
Church Hill Road Vicarage
This photograph is taken from the Victoria Park (Handsworth Park) Lodge on Hamstead Road, looking across the fields towards the Vicarage at the junction of Church Hill Road and Gibson Road.
Church Lane and Old Cottages
The old cottages in Church Lane dated back to 1699 but were sadly demolished in the 1950s. The cottages are just about visible on the right hand side of the road.
Church Lane, Handsworth
Old Cottages in Church Lane looking towards the direction of the junction of Wellington and Hamstead Roads. These cottages are referred to as 'old cottages' even at the end of the 1890s, the earliest ...
Church Lane, Handsworth
Architect's drawing of a house to be erected in Church Lane, Handsworth. Taken from the Building News, 24th February 1899.
Conybere Street
Carol Arnall's book “Birmingham Girls” recalls her life growing up in the area.
"My sister Pauline and I lived in Coneybere Street, Balsall Heath, with our mom during the mid to late 1940s - up the ...
Coronation Day in Mary Street
It’s Coronation Day, June 2nd 1953. Wearing their party hats, Shay and his sister Elizabeth (Lily) are sitting on Andy’s first mode of transport, the rigid framed ex WD (War dept) motorbike. Note the ...
Cottage in Soho Hill, Handsworth
Old cottage in Soho Hill, Handsworth, 1906. At one time this house was occupied by one of Matthew Boulton's gamekeepers.
Cottage on Holyhead Road
Undated picture of cottage on Holyhead Road.
Cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth
Row of cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth (now W & T Avery Ltd), including number 13 where William Murdock lived for a while. He had originally come to join Matthew Boulton in the Soho Manufactory in ...
Cottages in Church Lane by Farquhar
These cottages were built in 1699 by the Smallwood family. Members of the Smallwood family occupied at least one of these cottages for several generations.
One of the last occupants was a Miss Katie ...