Bootmaker on Easy Row
Advert for D. Andrews the bootmaker at 4 Easy Row. Easy Row is now only found in Birmingham as a walkway running alongside the Copthorne but in the nineteenth century it was a thriving street of local ...
Boy & Butcher Shop
This photgraph was taken because the striking stripey trousers that the boy is wearing look like they have been made out of the canopy material from the shop. This is Walter Smith butcher shop and it ...
Bradshaws - Shut after 54 years
The day Bradshaws closed only received this short report in the Evening Despatch. It closed at noon on 29th March 1958 after 54 years open in Cregoe Street.
Bradshaws awaiting demolition
The Cregoe/ Irving Street half of the shop closed and awaiting the bulldozers. The clock has noticeably gone already and to the right can be seen Wright and Platt who were on Irving Street for many years. ...
Bradshaw's closes - Queues for the last time
Article from the Evening Despatch on the closure of Bradshaw's Stores in Cregoe Street. The store closed in 1958 after 54 years open to the public. Bernard Bradshaw, the owner, had considered a new store ...
Bradshaws closing down Sale
First advert placed in the Evening Despatch by Bradshaws after they announced their closing down sale. The Lee Bank development compulsorily purchased many buildings in the area. The closure of Bradshaws ...
Bradshaw's of Cregoe Street
This 1935 advertisement for Bradshaw's of Cregoe Street - 'Bradshaw's Drapery and Boot Warehouse', as it says on the wall - is bound to appeal to someone writing captions. It is the kind of advertisement ...
Bradshaws of Cregoe Street
Bradshaws opened on Cregoe Street in 1904 and stayed there till 1958 when they were compulsorily purchased as part of the urban renewal of the area. The shop occupied sites on both sides of Cregoe Street ...
Bradshaw's of Cregoe Street, Lee Bank
As the big letters on the right-hand building say, 'This is Bradshaw's', the shop in Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, where you could buy just about anything for your home. H.B. Bradshaw Ltd began as drapers ...
Bricked up window on Chesterton Road
This is at the junction of Chesterton and Ladypool Road. The bricked up window is one of those sites that is there to see but is often ignored. In many cases around the area it is where a business has ...
Bristol Road and Wellington Road
View of the local shops which stand on the junction of these two roads. The Washmore Launderette is instantly familiar but the picture is undated and the business has been there for many years. The Prudential ...
Bristol Road and Wellington Road, Edgbaston
A view of the little row of shops in Bristol Road, Edgbaston, at the junction with Wellington Road, coming in from the right. The photograph was taken in 1979, looking southwards. Facing the camera is ...
Bristol Street
Nos. 137 to 143 Bristol Street in a photograph dating from the 1950s. These shops were on the west side of Bristol Street, the city centre therefore being to the right. On the left, at no. 143, was Mrs ...
Bristol Street
This view is of the western side of Bristol Street - the side that has been completely demolished in the course of later development and road improvement. On the left, at 197 Bristol Street, is S.K. Moss, ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
This scene in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, cannot date from much later than 1960 as the whole of this west side of Bristol Street was soon to be swept aside to make way for road widening. By 1965 this side ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
201 Bristol Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 11 October 1960. Number 201, in the centre, belonged to S. Cole & Co., wine and spirit merchants. To the left, apparently offering personal services, is Birmingham ...
Broad Street, Ladywood
The premises of Geo. Oram & Company, 187 and 188 Broad Street, Birmingham. In directories the company is described as 'house furnishers' and their shop was on the south side of Broad Street between Bishopsgate ...
Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...