Soho Foundry Sale 1895
The sale was to include "Substantial Brick Buildings, twenty-four brick-built cottages, the whole of the valuable fixed engineers' and boilermakers' tools and fixed plant, machinery and fixtures including ...
Soho House and Manufactory
These four small photographs show Soho House and Manufactory in Handsworth.
The photograph on the bottom left is the only known photo of Soho Manufactory during its demolition. The photograph of Soho ...
Soho Manufactory from the Nineveh Road
An engraving by T. Radclyffe from a drawing by F. Calvert. Calvert lived in Birmingham and exhibited six paintings at the Birmingham Society of Arts between 1829 and 1835. Calvert worked in oils and watercolours ...
Soho Manufactory, Handsworth
Soho Manufactory, Handsworth. Built by Matthew Boulton in 1762 the factory was demolished in the 1860s.
Soho Manufactory, Handsworth
An early photograph of the Soho Manufactory.
Spring Hill and Icknield Street, Ladywood
In this aerial view of the junction of Spring Hill (to the left) and Icknield Street (to the right) Spring Hill Library stands grandly in the centre, hemmed in by somewhat less grand Victorian development. ...
The night they bombed Dockers
In the early hours of 28 July 1942 a severe bombing raid on the west and south of the city resulted in the destruction of part of the Docker’s paint factory on Rotton Park Street and the lose of life ...
The Soho Manufactory
The Soho Manufactory was founded in 1761 by Matthew Boulton on Handsworth Heath in the parish of Handsworth near Birmingham. The site of a water mill was taken over, quickly converted and expanded over ...
The Tram Depot on Moseley Road
The last steam trams ran at New Year, 1906, so the depot on the Moseley Road which opened in 1907 was used only for electric trams. The building itself, with its magnificent appearance was specially designed ...
Thomas Chatwin Great Tindal Street
Chatwin's metal engineers on Great Tindal Street, Ladywood. This advert dates from 1888.
Tram Depot workforce
These workman are gathered just outside the main entrance to the tram depot on Moseley Road. Although undated it is probably from the early years of the depot, pre First World War. The gentleman to the ...
View of Handsworth (Old Town) Hall
Painted by Allen Edward Everitt. This is a rare view of the Old Town Hall erected in about 1460. Most views do not show the outbuildings and pump. The building still stands at the corner of College Road ...
View of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham
From the Monthly Magazine number 17. The factory was finished in 1765 at a cost of £9,000, and by 1769 employed 700 people making toys, trinkets and silver plate. In 1788 a Coining Mill was erected and ...
View of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham
The factory was finished in 1765 at a cost of £9,000, and by 1769 employed 700 people making toys, trinkets and silver plate. In 1788 a Coining Mill was erected and this mint made 40,000 coins per hour....
View of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham
The factory was finished in 1765 at a cost of £9,000, and by 1769 employed 700 people making toys, trinkets and silver plate. In 1788 a Coining Mill was erected and this mint made 40,000 coins per hour....
William Middlemore's factory
This engraving shows Mr William Middlemore's factory in Holloway Head. Middlemore first appears in the 1840s as a currier, saddler, harness maker, patent leather manufacturer, and army and navy accoutrement ...