Official opening of Lee Bank Primary School
Princess Alexandra speaking at the official opening ceremony of Lee Bank Primary School. Second left in the picture is the Lord Mayor who at that time was Harold Edward Tyler.
Oliver Pemberton, Birmingham City Coroner
Oliver Pemberton, F.R.C.S., J.P., was one of the Pemberton family who were brassfounders in Birmingham. His father was Thomas Pemberton of Warstone House. Born in 1825, he trained in medicine and eventually ...
Oswald Mosley stands for Ladywood
Oswald Mosley will always be remembered for his political party - The British Union of Fascists. Prior to this though he had been a Unionist (Conservative) MP for Harrow. He then resigned the seat and ...
Park Hill House
Park Hill House was built in 1831 and was situated between Hamstead Hill and Hamstead Hall Road. The most famous occupant was Charles Palmer, a brewer, who lived there in 1898. Palmer achieved some fame ...
Police investigation during Handsworth Riots
Policeman searching for fingerprints in broken glass during Handsworth Riots.
Protest outside Downing Street 1970's
This photograph was taken at a protest outside Downing Street in the late 1970's. Protesters were angry about issues around the new government in Zimbabwe.
Screen in St Catherine's Church
Screen inside the entrance to St Catherine's church. This is a memorial screen to President John F. Kennedy who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963. Funds for the memorial were raised by the priest ...
Lloyd George escapes at Birmingham Town Hall
On 18 December 1901, giving a characteristically trenchant pro-Boer, anti-war speech at Birmingham Town Hall, Lloyd George was practically lynched by a patriotic mob and had to escape from the building ...
Lord Mayor James Crump retires
Article taken from the Birmingham Gazette. Text reads as follows:
"Presentation of a silver tea service to the retiring Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham Alderman and Mrs J. Crump was made in ...
Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Neville Chamberlain (1915-1917)
Arthur Neville Chamberlain first entered politics in 1911 when he was elected as a councillor to Birmingham City Council and immediately became Chair of the Town Planning Committee. Birmingham soon adopted ...
Mary Street School Road Safety Certificate
Produced by the Birmingham Accident Prevention Council. This Certificate of Merit was awarded to Keith Whitehouse. It was signed by the Lord Mayor of the time, Ernest Walter Horton.
Mayor James Crump
James Crump was Lord Mayor of Birmingham from 1938 - 1939. He lived at 235 Great Colmore Street. Crump was born on 25th August 1873 at Bromsgrove. He was an Area Secretary of the Transport and General ...
Mr Edgar Evans
A newspaper cutting from the Despatch, July 21st 1905.
Familiar Figures no 691.
A caricature and account of the career of Mr Edgar Evans.
Mr Evans began in Business in Perry Barr as a maltster and ...
Mr Henry Hossell, J.P
A newspaper cutting from the Despatch, 29th May 1905.
Familiar figures no 645.
A caricature and outline of the career of Mr Henry Hossell,J.P.
Amongst many other duties Mr Hossell was a member of ...
Neville Chamberlain - MP for Ladywood and Edgbaston
In the 1918 General Election Chamberlain was elected as the Conservative MP for Ladywood. He refused office under David Lloyd George but accepted the posts Postmaster-General (1923-24) and Minister of ...
Neville Chamberlain - Picture Post front cover
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on the cover of Picture Post in October 1938. Chamberlain had returned from Munich where he had signed the famous agreement with Adolf Hitler which ratified the Sudetenland ...
Neville Chamberlain: Ladywood election poster
1923 poster for Neville Chamberlain who represented the constituency at evey General Election from 1918 to 1924. At the 1924 election he narrowly won for the Unionists by 77 votes over the Labour candidate ...
No recount in Ladywood - Decision of Mr Oswald Mosley, Too Costly
Article from the Birmingham Gazette following up on the 1924 election in Ladywood when Oswald Mosley came very close to defeating the sitting MP - Neville Chamberlain. The text is as follows:
Mr Oswald ...