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Aston Church Institution

Aston Church Institution, despite its name, stood on Villa Street in the Soho Ward.

Attempted suicide by a clergyman at Perry Barr.

This article from the Gazette dated 28 December 1886 recounts the attempted suicide of the curate of Perry Barr, the Rev. R. P. Walker, when he attempted to slit his throat with a razor blade. The explanation ...

Bab-ES-SIQ, Petra by David Bomberg

The painting is owned by Birmingham Musuem and Art Gallery. David Bomberg, who had originally come out to Palestine under the auspices of the Zionist Organisation, painted many scenes at Petra in 1924. ...

Balloon ascent near Handsworth Church

This is a photograph of a watercolour belonging to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It shows groups of people watching a balloon ascent with St Mary's Church and its Rectory in the background.

Beauty Receiving the White Rose by Joseph Southall

A pencil sketch for Joseph Southall’s largest easel painting, Beauty Receiving the White Rose from her Father, held in the collections of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The folk tale of Beauty and ...

Bellamy and Wakefield

This Chemists was located on Easy Row for many years. Interestingly they advertise that they also deal in tea and are Italian warehousemen! Easy Row has long since vanished as part of the city's regeneration ...

Betholom Row

Betholom Row translates as "City of the dead". It was a passageway which bordered the Jewish burial ground on Islington Row. The Jewish community was centred on this area during the nineteenth century. ...

Bingley Hall

Bingley Hall used to stand just off Broad Street in the Symphony Hall/ Repertory Theatre area. It was regularly used for public events of all kinds, most famously perhaps for the annual cattle shows and ...

Birchfield Branch Library

This building on Birchfield Road was once known as the Perry Barr Institute. It became Birchfield Library, a satellite of Handsworth Library in September 1897, when the two front rooms began to be used, ...

Birchfield Road, Handsworth

Cottages in Birchfield Road, Handsworth, near the Crown & Cushion, December 1897. A board on the wall in the centre advertises 'Freehold land to be let'.

Birchfield Road, Perry Barr

Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, looking north at the point where the underpass would later be built. Just off the photograph to the right are Birchfield Library and the cinema.

Birchfield Road, Perry Barr

Birchfield Road, Perry Barr

Birmingham Canal Reservoir

This nineteenth century engraving of the reservoir shows an idyllic place for leisure pursuits. The engraving was produced by James Granger of 40 Islington.

Birmingham Public Library

Birmingham Public Library, seen from Edmund Street and looking along the Ratcliff Place frontage, from a tinted postcard. The far end of the building beyond the entrance portico is the Birmingham and ...

Boat in sail on Hockley or Soho Pool by John Phillp

This pen and ink drawing by John Phillp shows the Boulton family boat on Hockley Pool. The boat shows part of the Boulton family coat of arms on the stern. The boathouse is visible in the trees to the ...

Boathouse and pool, Handsworth Park

A Peaceful image of Handsworth Park Pool at approximately the turn of the 20th Century. This image is taken from a colourised black and white postcard.

Boathouse doors by John Phillp

This scale elevation of boathouse doors by John Phillp does not match the doors of the boathouse on Soho Pool visible in other sketches by Phillp (also available on this site). It is possible they belong ...

Bookplate of John Rabone, Penderell House

Bookplate of John Rabone, Penderell House, Handsworth. Penderell House was on Hamstead Road close to the site of Welford School. This is presumably one of the John Rabones of John Rabone and Sons, ...