Bell Barn Road maisonettes
The junction of Bell Barn Road with Spring Street in 1961. The maisonettes have now since gone.
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, in an undated photograph by E.Woolgar. The view is looking north-westwards, with Wynn Street on the right with the Three Crowns Cafe on the corner. Much had already disappeared ...
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, near Cregoe Street. These Victorian houses, photographed in the 1960s, were on the verge of demolition as the new postwar Lee Bank took shape.
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Houses in Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, photographed on 7 March 1965. Lee Bank was one of five Comprehensive Redevelopment Areas set up after World War II, involving the demolition of large areas of Victorian ...
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken on 26 July 1960 during the redevelopment of the area that began in the early 1950s. On the left is part of the public open space that replaced Victorian ...
Bell Barn Shopping Centre
Located just off Cregoe Street, this is how it looked in August 2004. Left in business then were the Select and Save (visible to the left) and the chip shop to the right. The area was one of the last ...
Bell barn shopping centre
Located just off Cregoe Street, this is how the one side of the shopping centre looked in 1974. The lady on the right has been identified as local resident Gladys Nend. Her sister still lives in the area ...
Bell Barn Shopping Centre on day of demolition
Taken just before demolition. The Bell Barn Shopping Centre was part of the Lee Bank redevelopment and was located about half way up Cregoe Street.
Bell Barn Shopping Centre, Lee Bank
Bell Barn shopping centre, off Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, was a small precinct built during the 1960s redevelopment of the area. Oddly enough it was not particularly close to Bell Barn Road. When this photograph ...
Bench outside Hogarth House
Hogarth House is one of the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway.
Benmore Estate
A view of part of the Benmore estate, which transformed the narrow stretch of land between Bristol Road and Pershore Road.
Bernard Allen and Jean Butler outside 24 Lee Crescent
Bernard Allen at work in Freeman and Ward
Freeman and Ward was located at the Bath Row end of Cregoe Street. They made equipment for the local hospital as well as brass and copperware. Bernard Allen started work there as a 14 year old. Here he ...
Bernard Allen on his bike in Lee Crescent
I was born in Lee Crescent in 1931. Lee Crescent ran parallel with Lee Bank Road; there was no Lee Bank area like today. One side of Lee Crescent and Lee Mount was demolished to make way for the Lee Bank ...
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. ...
Big bargains at Bradshaws
Advert placed in the Evening Despatch during Bradshaw's closure period. This one is noteworthy for it's appeal directly to male customers. Most of the local residents who remember Bradshaw's would agree ...
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.
Blessing of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank
The blessing of the new Catholic Church of St Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank, would have taken place in 1965. The new church, designed by Harrison & Cox, was built in 1964/5 on the corner of Bristol Street ...