Places of Work
This magnificent brass clock was Samuel Heath & Sons contribution to the Great Exhibition in 1853
The Ephraim Phillips factory today.
Ephraim Phillips started in Bissell Street in 1880 and, although the company is no longer there, the building still stands today.
Ryland's Factory
Ryland's paint and varnish factory in Haden Street dating from 1860 and still there today. The firm owed it success to the mastery of a lacquer which could be applied without heat. The lacquer was produced ...
Samuel Heath & Sons
Samuel Heath & Sons' brassfounding factory in Leopold Street, established in 1830, and still flourishing today. It has been run by five successive generations of the same family and still occupies the ...
Ryland's Workers
A group of Ryland's workers, c. 1914.
Robinson's Removals
Robinson's Removals & Furniture Depository and Malcolm House Moseley Road
Moseley Road fire station
The new Moseley Road fire station built in 1972.
Moseley Road tram depot
A group of workers at Moseley Road tram depot which opened in 1907
Elcock & Sons Ltd
Elcock & Sons Ltd. metal spinners and pressworkers in Tindal Street. Another family firm. Elcock's was founded in the 1890s in a back garden workshop.
G H Bradbury
Bradbury's factory in Highgate Square, originally the garden of a house fronting Moseley Road. This family firm was founded in 1859.
Highgate Road tram depot
The former Highgate Road tram depot which opened in 1913. At the time of the photograph in the 1980s it had been converted to a maintenance depot for ambulances.
Edward Road Police Station
Established in 1869, the police station in Edward Road is still in operation today together with the "blue lamp".
The old Moseley Road Fire Station
The former fire station in Highgate Square which originally opened in 1912. It is still there today and is the home of a drama college.
Sames' Piano Factory
'The Mozart Works' - Sames' Piano Factory in Woodfield Road. The firm was founded in 1855 in central Birmingham but in 1889 expanded to cheaper building land in Woodfield Road, constructing a vast three-storey ...
In the Stocks at the 1980 Carnival
"Tony (Stokes) and I thought we would have a cool-off because it was a nice hot day and so we went in the stocks. Not known to us was someone has gone in The Railway (Clifton Road) and told people we ...
View from St Paul's Church
In the 1970s most of Balsall Heath between Moseley Rd and Pershore Road was demolished to make way for new developments. The top of Moseley Road Library can be seen in the front of the picture and Mount ...
Scrapped! Runcorn Scrapyard Is Finally Cleared
After 6 years of campaigning by local residents, the City's Development(Planning)Department officers, backed by the City Sheriff, six uniformed policemen and a large bulldozer, finally took possession ...
Darwin Street
Taken after the demolition as part of urban renewal of the area. The foreground lamp-post looks singularly forlorn.