Darbyshire's
An advert for the business which was at 297 Monument Road. They were picture framers who also specialised in re-gilding frames. The advert is from the St Mark's Parish Magazine of 1907. Photographs were ...
Dares Brewery, Belgrave Road
Advert for Dares Ales. This is a black and white copy of the original colour advert. Dares were based on what is now the middleway. The mosque stands on what was the site today; the road now bears no ...
Davis West Indian Bakery - Soho Road
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
One does not have to venture far on the Soho Road to see the variety of colours, to smell the different aromas and to feel the textures of several fruit and vegetables, ...
Dentists on Ladypool Road
The Hillbrook Dental Health Centre has a friendly welcome on the door. Picture taken by pupils from Anderton Park Primary School as part of a project looking at how Ladypool Road has changed over the ...
Derelict Bradshaw's
Closed down Bradshaw's on the corner of Latimer Street and Cregoe Street.
This was the left hand Bradshaw's building that sold carpets etc.
Donald McIntosh - Outfitter
Donald McIntosh traded from 130 Soho Road next to the Frighted Horse Public House.
This advert is taken from the programme for the Saint James' Church Fancy Fair held at the New Inns Assembly Rooms November ...
E. Moore - Shoeing and Jobbing Smith
Advert from Clarke Street. Note the spelling with an "e" on the end!
E.M. Baker's hardware shop, Great Colmore Street
Mrs E.M. Baker's hardware and fancy goods shop was at 121 Great Colmore Street. According to directories she was only trading here for a few years in the early 1960s. Previously at this address was an ...
Edgbaston Dyeing and Cleaning Works advert
W.S. Ragg and Son had two premises in and around the area at Islington Row and Broad Street. The advert also names the company's local agent A.E. Baker of Cregoe Street.
Edward Harry Jukes - Grocer
Edward Jukes traded at 311 Soho Road, right next to the junction with Boulton Road. His speciality "Boultonwattee" is of interest with it's clear local appeal. Presumably the tea was just packaged differently ...
Edward Road
A view of Edward Road looking towards Moseley Road. The Co-op is on the left hand side. Bath Walk is on the right.
Edward Road
Lots of interest in the photographer from a group of young boys outside a shop on this road in 1958.
Elizabeth McKeon remembers by Jim Fitzpatrick
Our large Irish family moved from Stratford Road Sparkbrook to Mary Street Balsall Heath in 1949.
Early memories are of trams running down Mary Street, the milkman delivering by horse and cart, and us ...
Envy Music
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
The Soho Road houses several South Asian music and video retail stores. These date back to the late sixties and early seventies, when mainly Indian shopkeepers began to ...
Envy Music
Detail from Envy Music's window on the Soho Road.
F. E. Spencer - Baker and Confectioner
Francis Edmund Spencer ran a bakery opposite the Library. He also had premises at number 93 on Holyhead Road so it would seem his "fancy" flour and delivery service were very popular in Victorian and ...
F.E. Bailey Grosvenor Bakery
Frank Edward Bailey traded at 48 Grove Lane - one door from the junction with Grove Avenue.The business is not listed as the Grosvenor Bakery in the trade directory, perhaps the name was a pun on the ...
F.H. Simms - Family Grocer
An advert for the shop which, as the advert says, was at 29 Monument Road. As well as being a grocer it supplied tea and other provisions.