Chest in St Thomas's School
This chest stands outside the headteacher's office in St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. Its history is unknown but it may have once been a chest used to store school documents. There is a possibility ...
Christian Kunzle plaque
Blue plaque for Christian Kunzle in Birmingham. This plaque is on the site of Kunzle's shop which stood where the Abbey National Building Society is in Five Ways Shopping Centre. Kunzle is fondly remembered ...
Clematis along Great Colmore Street
This beautiful clematis attracts admiring glances every spring/ summer along Great Colmore Street. It is in fact grown over the fence of an address in Lytham Croft
Code of Good Conduct in the ARP shelter under George Road
As you arrive in the first area from the entrance you see this notice hanging on the wall - the Code of Good Conduct. It reads as follows:
Public Shelters are provided for the use of members of the ...
Community centre under demolition (with film clip)
This digger demolished the whole Centre in about one hour! The area is part of the re-development undertaken by Crest Nicholson and Optima Community Association. the Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off ...
Construction in Lee Bank
View of new properties under construction by Crest Nicholson. This view is taken looking towards the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway, from the balcony of the old Community Centre on Gaywood Croft.
Corner of Irving and Bow Street
The redevelopment of the Lee Bank area in the fifties and sixties seemed to bypass a small area along Bow Street and onto Irving Street. Some old former factory and small business workshops survive along ...
Craven Arms
Taken on a rainy day in Summer 2004. The flags are flying as England at that time were still playing in the European Football Championships. The Craven Arms was proposed for local or statutory listed ...
Craven Arms, Gough Street
Detail of the beautiful decoration on the facade of the Craven Arms Public House in Gough Street.
Demolition of the Community Centre
The jaws of the digger as it moves in to "bite" another piece from the former Attwood Green Community Centre. The centre was demolished to make way for new developments in the Lee Bank area. Facilities ...
Derelict doorway on Bow Street
Doorway to an overgrown area on Bow Street. At one time this would have opened into a factory which occupied a lot of the ground between here and Irving Street which is located at the end of Bow Street. ...
Dig For Victory with Woodview School
As part of their work exploring how Britain coped on the homefront in the Second World War pupils from Woodview School went for a trip out to Hampton Loade. Most of the journey was made via the Severn ...
Digging For Victory
Children from Woodview Primary School "digging for victory" on their school trip to sample evacuation life in WW2.
Due for demolition
An interesting view of two buildings awaiting demolition as part of the urban renewal of Lee Bank. Haddon Tower to the rear of the picture was in process of being cleared for "blow down". The top floors ...
Edgbaston Reservoir
The reservoir at about 6:30 pm on Monday 14th February 2005
Entrance to St Lukes School
Now a Sure Start centre. This was St Luke's Primary School and the old front entrance still clearly reminds us of this fact some four years after the school's closure! Countless numbers of children passed ...
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 ...
Essex Street towards Clydesdale Tower
This is the view looking up Essex Street, across The Horsefair, with Clydesdale Tower in the distance. the shops on either side are still recognisable from the early twentieth century. Up till 1961 you ...