Escape tunnel inside George Road ARP shelter
Access from room to room in the shelter could also be made via these tunnels in case the regular corridors were blocked. Note the supporting lintel over the entrance. The tunnel is only perhaps twenty ...
Fred Whitehouse goes for a Health check
Fred was serving with British forces in South Africa at the time. In a letter sent to his home at 259 Belgrave Road Balsall Heath, and dated 20th November 1939, he was summoned to go for a medical examination ...
Funeral of Private Harold Hackett (1435, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
The funeral cortege of Private Harold Hackett who served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was 26 years old and died at Eastbourne of wounds recieved while on service in France. The ...
General Calthorpe outside Perry Hall
Perry Hall, Staffordshire. The Honorable General Somerset Calthorpe in Carriage.
The following is a biography of Calthorpe taken from the Handsworth Magazine in November 1899.
Lieutenant General ...
George Onions VC
George Onions won the Victoria Cross in the First World War with the Devonshire Regiment. He managed to take 247 German soldiers prisoner and bring them back to British lines, with the assistance of one ...
George Road ARP Shelter
The urinals in the underground public ARP shelter at George Road. Still there today but unused for 60 years, though it was probably earmarked for use at other post-war times such as the Cuban Missile ...
Grand Armistice Ball at the Palais De Danse
Invitation card for the Grand Armistice Ball at the Palais De Danse on Monument Road in Ladywood. Entertainment provided by Stan Hudson and his band.
Handsworth Volunteer Company
Handsworth Volunteer Company c.1915
Alan Bragg (Sitting extreme right, founder and secretary of Handsworth Historical Society) and Leonard Davis, standing extreme left (an early committee member of HHS....
Handsworth Volunteers
Handsworth Volunteers who went out to the South African War 1899-1901
Harold Colley VC
Harold Colley was born at 64 Winson Street on 26th May 1894. Winson Street lies off the Dudley Road in the Cape Hill area, not far from the Cape Hill Brewery. His parents were John (a Pattern Maker) and ...
House of the Baskervilles by Chris Upton
A riot, a back garden burial,the deepest canal in Birmingham, a giant dog with luminous eyes. The company that has just bought Baskerville House has also taken over an awful lot of history. The dog we ...
Irving Street - Another view of the VE Day Party
One of the two photographs we have of the party which took place on Irving Street to celebrate the end of the war in Europe. Nobody on this photograph has been named as yet.
Irving Street - VE Day Party
None of the people on this picture are named but they are presumably all from Irving Street. This is one of two views of the tables that were laid out for the day. Any information on those present or ...
Joseph Gamgee and the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund - by Chris Upton
Fame can be a fickle, unpredictable thing. Joseph Sampson Gamgee (pictured), sometime surgeon of Birmingham, would be puzzled to know that his name has been preserved and broadcast to the world as a character ...
Kenyon Street in the blitz
Kenyon Street runs off the "top end" of Constitution Hill. The picture shows two factories damaged by a German air raid in June 1942. To the right is Anstey and Wilson who were electrical plate manufacturers. ...
King Edward VI School evacuation plaque
This plaque was placed in Monmouth as a thank you for the hospitality shown by residents to boys from the school who had been evacuated there.
Ladywood at War Day
One of the visitors to Norman and Eileen's excellent "Ladywood At War" exhibition at St John's Church. Here we see her with one of the re-enactment society who is proudly displaying his combat dress. ...
Lance Sergeant Archie Cross (270064, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
Reported missing in the Weekly Mercury of 7th October 1916. He had at that time been missing since 1st July and his mother Mrs Cross of 4 Back 85 Irving Street was desperate for news of him.
Sadly, ...