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.
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.
A lifetime of work - a conversation with Bill Landon of Ladywood
In December 1927 the Crown Cinema opened on Icknield Port Road. One of the youngsters who visited it was Bill Landon of Steward Street. Little did he know he would still be visiting the building over ...
A lost Street Piano
A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail",19th June 1897.
This is a short article about an abandoned "street piano" that the police confiscated from a group of "Peaky Blinders" in Handsworth. It ...
A natter with the blowks and wenches of Ladywood
(from Issue One of the Ladywood Magazine - the Brew 'Us Bugle)
In December Carrie Coles celebrates her 90th birthday. She’ll have many memories to recall and if she needs help she can call on her sisters, ...
A Perry Barr Divorce Suit - Assaulting a Wife with a Turkey
This newscutting reports on a divorce suit brought by Agnes Mary Barnes against her husband Frederick James Barnes, a commercial traveller. It was alleged that Barnes had committed adultery with one ...
A pharmacy on Ladypool Road
The modern sign for a chemist is the green cross which shows the pharmacy is fully licensed to dispense medicine. Despite the fact that more drugs are available over the counter there is still a large ...
A pint in the Woodman
This picture, by Lewis Green, was taken in The Woodman pub which used to stand on Cregoe Street until 2005. The two people in the picture are unknown but at least one local resident remembers the gentleman ...
A plant on Ryland Road - by year five at Woodview School
This is a unknown plant on Ryland Road.
A Rhubarb Hoax in Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth News" June 30th 1888.
This cutting gives an account of a practical Joke played on a Mr Tomlin, who owned fields in Queens Head Lane.
Someone spread a story ...
A Royal Wedding at the Carnival
A re-enactment of the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. This was one of the events which took place at the 1980 Carnival in Balsall Heath.
A Runaway Horse
A newspaper cutting from the "Mercury" June 1906.This sketch is taken from the G.H. Osborne Newscuttings collection. A short article in the Handsworth Herald describes the incident as follows:
"On Monday ...
A Shelter That Collapsed
This story is from the Birmingham Despatch about the collapse of an air-raid shelter in Reservoir Road. The shelter was being built for members of the Mount Pleasant Club. One person was killed - Evan ...
A Skeleton at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 12th November 1892. A short article which gives an account of the discovery of a human skeleton in Douglas Road. A small boy had alerted Detective Deacey ...
A Survey of the Township of Handsworth, 1794
Extract from Vestry Minutes of St Mary's Church, Handsworth.
"At a Vestry Meeting held in Handsworth Church on the 22nd April 1794. It was resolved that Mr Bishton and Mr Fowler, the Commissioners appointed ...
A Tale of Starvation
A newspaper cutting from the Handsworth Herald, May 13th 1905. This is a report on the discovery of a semi-concious man being found lying in Rocky Lane.
It was later discovered by Police-constable Potts ...
A tour around Attwood Green Community Centre
Formerly the Midland Adult School Union (MASU) building the centre was kept going by Optima Community Association. It was finally demolished in 2005 as part of the Attwood Green redevelopment.
This ...
A tour round a public ARP shelter - sixty years on
During the Second World War air-raid shelters were located in people's gardens but there were also many public shelters too, capable of coping with many people at a time. Some of the back-garden Anderson ...