Broad Street, Ladywood
Hand-tinted postcard view of Broad Street, Birmingham, looking east towards the city centre. On the left in this Victorian street scene is Barclays Bank on the corner of Sheepcote Street, with its slightly ...
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The beginnings
In the 1880 Kelly's Directory Handsworth is described as 'a fashionable suburb to the north-west of Birmingham, containing many handsome mansions and villa residences' Although only ...
Brownes Green Lodge
About 1870 The Lodge was built in 1810 and added to the Statutory List of the Department of the Environment as having special architectural or historic interest.
Burgalary at Boulton Road Schools
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald" May 2nd 1891.
This cutting gives an account of a break in at Boulton Road School. As the burglars where unable to find any money they took £3.00 worth ...
Bursting of the canal at Edgbaston
Under the heading 'Serious accident at Birmingham' this print illustrates the scene that resulted when the Worcester and Birmingham Canal burst on Sunday morning, 26 May 1872. Considerable damage was ...
Bust of William Murdock by James Watt
William Murdock (or Murdoch), the son of an Ayrshire mill designer, was born in 1754. Murdock had an excellent grasp of mechanics and, in 1777, he walked 300 miles to Birmingham to meet James Watt, in ...
C F Jarvis - Chemist
Clarence Frank Jarvis traded on Villa Road next to the junction with Hamstead Road.
Cable Tram on Soho Road
The number 95 cable tram to New Inns. According to the caption the tram is pictured on the Soho Road. Trams carried advertising for products of the day - on this tram are adverts for Birds Custard (produced ...
Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Handsworth
Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Soho Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. Opened in 1930, the church had been founded in 1737 in Cannon Street, Birmingham, but had been demolished when Corporation ...
Canon Edward F. Fenn
Father Fenn founded the Mission of St. Catherine in the Horsefair. He was born in Wolverhampton on 4th September 1837. After spending one year working at St. Chad's Cathedral he arrived in Bristol Street ...
Captain Alfred John Loftus
By the demise on the 29th ult, of Captain Alfred John Loftus, F.R.G.S, Handsworth has lost one of the most picturesque of her residents. (Captain Loftus lived at 6 Grosvenor Road).
He was born at Darlington, ...
Cavendish House - home of James Henry Stone
Back view of Cavendish House, Handsworth, the home of James Henry Stone JP, brother of Benjamin Stone. The house stood at 16 Grosvenor Road.
Cavendish House, Grosvenor Road, Handsworth
Cavendish House, Grosvenor Road, Handsworth.
This house was owned by James Henry Stone the brother of John Benjamin Stone J.P., Photographer and Councillor.
Chapman's Mill - by Chris Upton
Turn the clock back a little more than a century and there were genuine windmills to see in Birmingham and not a Dutchman in sight. Perhaps the most famous of them stood in the unlikely location of Holloway ...
Chapman's Windmill and R.Wier on Holloway Head
Chapman’s brick built tower mill stood on the hill overlooking Holloway Head. It is thought to have been constructed in 1745 by Clark’s who were millwrights in Deritend until the late 18th century. There ...
Charles Henry Glassey - Handsworth Conservative Association
This is an abridged version of his biography, the full version being available as a download on this page.
Mr C H Glassey, F.N.S., the indefatigable Secretary of the Handsworth Division Conservative ...
Charlotte Road
Picture postcard view from early twentieth or late nineteenth century of Charlotte Road. A very different rural scene from today.
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth
Cherry Orchard Farm, Hamstead, Handsworth. One of the larger farms in the area, the house was demolished in 1930 and gave its name to the modern Cherry Orchard Road.