Sir John Benjamin Stone and Handsworth
John Benjamin Stone was born in Aston in 1838. Stone was active as a local councillor, magistrate and MP in the Birmingham area. It is though for his photographic archive that Stone has remained famous. ...
Soup from the Lord Mayor
Picture and article from the Birmingham Evening Mail showing the Lord Mayor, James Crump giving out soup at the British Legion on Windmill Street. Crump was in fact a local man as he was born and lived ...
Taxing Times for Gladstone by Chris Upton
Mr Joseph Lloyd Phelps of Lee Crescent was idly looking through his morning post : bills from the coal merchant and grocer, note from his brother in law, subscription request from the local improvement ...
The Future Edgbaston
A newspaper cutting from the "Weekly Mercury", January 26th 1907.
This article reports on an interview with Councillor Fred Lempriere of the District council about Birmingham's proposed scheme to ...
The Last Liberal by Chris Upton
In a recent quiz on Birmingham the question was posed, “Who was the city’s last Liberal MP?”
I regret that a few of us, with better long term memories than short, answered Joseph Chamberlain, before ...
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham at the Children's Hospital, Ladywood
In this newscutting from the Birmingham Gazette for 28th August 1941 the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and the Lady Mayoress are seen in the new block of the Children's Hospital in Ladywood Road. They are ...
The Prince of Wales in Florence Street
In October 1932 the then Prince of Wales (later briefly Edward VIII) visited Birmingham and is here seen in Florence Street in a picture entitled 'Prince welcomed in the slums'. He is seen wearing a hat ...
Thomas Attwood MP
One of the two first Birmingham MPs and the man who gives his name to Attwood Green. This engraving of Attwood is by W. and F. Holl from a drawing by A. Wivell.
Thomas Attwood was born at Hawne House, ...
Tindal Street School evacuees with Queen Mary
The picture is dated 21st September 1939. Arthur Rose is to far left and sister Irene Rose is the girl in front with hand on the grass. Irene remembers writing home to her mum to say she had been gardening ...
Town Hall, Birmingham
Postcard illustrating the scene outside the Town Hall, Birmingham, after the infamous 'Lloyd George meeting' on 18th December 1901. Although all appears to be peaceful enough there had been chaos when ...
Vanley Burke Galleries
Vanley Burke has been living and working in Birmingham since 1965. He started photographing the community around him in 1967 and has continued to the present day. He has exhibited his work extensively ...
William Henry Welshman
This is an abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download.
William Henry Welshman lived at 20 Holyhead Road, Handsworth.
The subject of our sketch, ...