W A Ellis JP
An abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available for download.
It is no exaggeration to say that the name of Ellis is a household word in Handsworth. ...
W. H . Ward (architect)
Mr William H Ward is popular with all classes of men. For over thirty years his has been a familiar face to the generality of Birmingham’s citizens and he has in his professional capacity contributed ...
W. H. Booth - Handsworth Fire Brigade
Abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available for download. William Henry Booth lived at 213 Church Hill Road in Handsworth.
Mr W H Booth is a son of the late Edward ...
Waggon And Horses
This public house stood on the site of what is now Handsworth Library.
Waggon and Horses Inn by J. Laurence Hart
Watercolour sketch by J. Laurence Hart, dated 1877, of an original painting in oils of the Waggon and Horses Inn, Soho Road, Handsworth. The inn was demolished in 1877 and Handsworth Council House built ...
Waggon and Horses, Soho Road
A rare photograph of the Waggon and Horses on Soho Road. Originally built about 1700 and demolished in 1870. Handsworth Council House and Public Library were erected on the site in 1877.
In 1780 this ...
Walter Langley - artist from Irving Street and Lee Crescent
Walter Langley was the first major artist to settle at Newlyn in Cornwall, and as such was one of the most important of the colony of artists there. While to some extent overshadowed by Stanhope Forbes, ...
Walter Langley - Exhibition
An exhibition of some work by local artist, Walter Langley.
Langley was born in Irving Street on June 8th 1852, the son of William Langley (a Birmingham tailor) and Mary Ann Langley. He was apprenticed ...
Walter Langley: 'But men must work and women must weep...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) after his upbringing in Irving Street, and his training at South Kensington School of Art moved to Cornwall and devoted his painting career to scenes of life in Cornish fishing ...
Walter Langley: 'Disaster! Scene in a Cornish fishing village'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events ...
Walter Langley: 'Never morning wore to evening...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was born in Birmingham and was brought up in Irving Street. He trained at South Kensington School of Art (1873-75) and later on, in 1882, went to live in Newlyn, Cornwall, as ...
Walter Langley: 'O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was a genre painter favouring fishing village scenes which are a far cry from his childhood in Irving Street, Edgbaston (now in Lee Bank). From 1882 he lived in Cornwall at ...
Warstone Pool, Handsworth
Warstone Pool (also known as Swan Pool), near Forge Lane, Handsworth. 1899
Weary of Life - Shocking Case at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne Collection gives details of the case of eleven year old Edith Johnson. She lived with her father and stepmother in Franchise Street, Perry Barr and was a pupil ...
Wellington Road area of Edgbaston in 1837, by Samuel Lines
A sketch of the Wellington Road area of Edgbaston in 1837, by the Birmingham artist Samuel Lines. Isolated houses are already to be seen in 1837 but the rural surroundings are by no means easy to identify. ...
Wesleyan Theological College, Friary Road
A close up photograph of the main entrance of the Wesleyan Theological College in Friary Road, taken in 1898. The building is in the Gothic style of the fourteenth century.
West House School, Edgbaston
West House School, St James' Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard probably of interwar date. Founded as a preparatory school for boys, the school first appears in directories from 1896 and still exists today....
Westminster Road Congregational Church, Handsworth
Westminster Road Congregational Church, Handsworth. This photograph of the interior was taken sometime after the church opened in 1882. The church fell into disuse and combined with Union Row Congregational ...