Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth, looking north-east towards the bottom of the hill. The site of the new cemetery is on the left of the photograph. The poster on the tree to the left mentions the site development ...
Can't Stop
This letter from 'Indignant' complains of the difficulty of getting off trams at Wellington Road. The writer maintains that conductors persist in pulling the bell to go on before the car has stopped ...
Charlotte Road
Picture postcard view from early twentieth or late nineteenth century of Charlotte Road. A very different rural scene from today.
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth, from a postcard. Possibly of 14th-century date the buildings were demolished in 1930.
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
Inside the Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children, on the corner of Sheepcote Street, was originally founded in 1862 and remained in ...
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
Inside the Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children, on the corner of Sheepcote Street, was originally founded in 1862 and was in this ...
Christmas at The Rezza
This article is from the first issue of the Ladywood Brew 'Us Bugle)
This was the Birmingham All the Year Round Swimming Club pictured at Edgbaston Reservoir on Christmas morning 1909. The weather ...
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, Handsworth
Cottages in Church Lane, Handsworth. A winter scene from a hand-coloured postcard.
Church of St Francis of Assisi, Handsworth
Interior of the Church of St Francis of Assisi, looking towards the altar, from a postcard. The Catholic church, in Hunters Road, was opened in 1894.
Church of St Francis of Assisi, Handsworth
Church of St Francis of Assisi, Hunters Road, Handsworth, taken from a postcard. The Roman Catholic church was opened in 1894 and consecrated in 1900.
Church of St Francis of Assisi, Handsworth
Church of St Francis of Assisi, Hunters Road, Handsworth. A postcard view of the Roman Catholic church built to the designs of Canon Scoles and opened in 1894.
Church of the Redeemer, Edgbaston
Card printed by the Church of the Redeemer in Hagley Road, Edgbaston. The themed services, at 6.30 on Sunday evenings, were directed particularly at young men and women. The Church of the Redeemer was ...
Church Road, Perry Barr
A scene in the grounds of The Grove, the home of G.B. Lloyd, in Church Road, Perry Barr. This grotto was one of the features of the Tea Garden.
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
The City Museum and Art Gallery in Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, was built in 1884/85 to the designs of H.R. Yeoville Thomason, who had previously built the Council House. This postcard shows the Gallery ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
A splendidly atmospheric view of Birmingham's Art Gallery, taken fom a coloured postcard. The view is looking along Edmund Street; Congreve Street crosses in front of the Art Gallery. Both streets have ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
One of the exhibits in Birmingham Art Gallery, from an early 20th-century postcard. This bronze statue of a praying boy is an example of the Victorian confidence in the educational value of casts - the ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Postcard showing one of the exhibits from the Beale Memorial Collection in the Natural History Department of the Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham. The Common Sheldrake was one of numerous stuffed animals ...