53 to 56 Great Colmore Street
These houses were photographed about 1960 and would be standing somewhere about the site of St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. They were photographed as part of the urban renewal of the area ...
55A Lee Crescent
This is probably an old Victorian shed to the rear of 55A. As it was photographed by the Public Works dept it has almost certainly been demolished.
61 to 62 Great Colmore Street
Undated picture of numbers 61 to 62 Great Colmore Street. It probably dates from around 1960 when the Public Works Dept were photographing most of this area. These houses would have stood somewhere after ...
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Marching Majorettes from 1982
A quiet Soho Road
Early morning on Soho Road and a contrast to the normal traffic laden images.
A Burglar's banquet at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Chronicle" 24th December 1892.
An account of one of the many burglaries at this time taking place in the area around Charles Road and Crompton Road.
The home ...
A curious tramcar fatality
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 3rd October 1891.
This cutting gives details of the inquest into the death of Walter, Charles Hewitt from Birchfield Road.
Mr Hewitt had tried to jump off ...
A Dance at The Tower Ballroom
Poster for a Dance for the City of Birmingham Municipal Officers' Guild held at the Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston Reservoir. Dancing was to be from 8 till one for the princely sum of three and six for a pair ...
'A Distinct Sensation'
This newscutting tells of a young lady from Perry Barr who had ventured out in her furs for the first time that autumn. As she got on the tram and passed down the car the other passengers began to blink ...
A Donkey Cart
A donkey and trap joins the parade past the library on Moseley Road. The gentleman immediately behind the trap is Ron Ford. The building to the right became a Sikh Temple.
A Freak Chicken
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Weekly Post, September 30th 1905.
The article shows an illustration and description of a four legged chicken.
The bird was one of a hatch of Plymouth Rock chickens ...
A Grand Concert
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing a Grand Concert in the grounds of the Old Crown and Cushion on Birchfield Road in aid of the Perry Barr Reservists Fund. There is still a pub called the ...
A Guard killed at Perry Barr
These newscuttings report the death and inquest of train guard Mark Robins. Robins was a guard on a L&NWR coal train to Perry Barr. He was directing his train into a siding to allow a football train ...
A Handsworth Milkseller in trouble
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette 21st May 1883.
The article refers to a Mr Henry.E. Leckington, a milk seller of Terrace Road ,Handsworth, being summoned for selling milk below the standard ...
A horse sale in the Horse Fair
The Horse Fair is located off the island at the end of SmallBrook Queensway and it runs into Bristol Street. In the later years of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were regular horse ...
A knobbly knees competition in Brunswick Road
This is thought to date from the Coronation street party in 1953. Knobbly knees competitions are always associated with holiday camps such as Butlins and this was probably the inspiration for the Brunswick ...
A lady killed at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the death of Mrs Elizabeth Wells. Mrs Wells was the wife of Austin L. Wells of Warren Farm, Perry Barr. She was being driven to Birmingham ...
A lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.