Bristol Street junction with Lee Bank Middleway - by Year Five at Woodview School
This view is looking towards St Luke's Church and Matthew Boulton Technical College - both buidlings due to be demolished as part of the urban regeneration of the area.
Bristol Street part 2 in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following roads: Brixham Road, Broad Lane, Broad Road. Use the "zoomify" tab to read the text.
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
Without further information it is not so easy to pinpoint this location, but it is towards the southern end of Bristol Street, Lee Bank. On 27th October 1965, when this photograph was taken, the buildings ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
In this view looking towards the city in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, resurfacing work is well under way. There is a reason why only a strip down the centre is being resurfaced: the road is being restored ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
This scene in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, cannot date from much later than 1960 as the whole of this west side of Bristol Street was soon to be swept aside to make way for road widening. By 1965 this side ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
This row of shops was on the west side of Bristol Street, Lee Bank, on the corner of Spring Vale, just visible on the left. All of this disappeared in the construction of Lee Bank Middleway and its junction ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
201 Bristol Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 11 October 1960. Number 201, in the centre, belonged to S. Cole & Co., wine and spirit merchants. To the left, apparently offering personal services, is Birmingham ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
A scene in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, forming part of a collection of photographs taken in the Lee Bank area not long before demolition and redevelopment in the 1950s and 1960s. This one was probably taken ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
Rear view of properties in Bristol Street, Lee Bank. Bristol Street forms one side of one of the postwar Comprehensive Dedevelopment Areas where large-scale demolition and redevelopment took place. The ...
Bristol Street, Lee Bank
A terrace of early 19th-century houses in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, probably photographed in the early 1950s. These quite handsome houses with their bay windows were all swept away during postwar redevelopment. ...
Britannic Assurance Company - Broad Street
The impressive buildings of the Britannic Assurance company on Brad Street. This advert for their services is from the brochure for the opening of the Hall Of Memory by the Prince of Wales in 1925. The ...
Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
Bruce Harris - Electrical Engineer
Bruce Harris traded on Lee Bank Road and was located right next to Villa Place (which can just be made out in the wall plaque to the left). In the Trade Directory for 1960 he is listed as being next door ...
BSA advert from The Oratory church magazine
An advert for BSA's pushbikes and motorbikes as sold by The County Cycle Company who were based at 307 Broad Street. The advert tells us that a racing bike could be had for £8 5s. Roadsters were more ...
Building of the Y- Blocks
A rare photograph showing the Y-Block development under construction. In the foreground are the foundations for the small blocks of flats and in the background is Avon House. The development lies between ...
Building Site - by Year Five at Woodview
This area was once occupied by low rise flats in the vicinity of Nightingale Walk. It has been levelled to the ground now and is about to be rebuilt.
Building St Thomas's School
Two pupils of St Thomas's School on Granville Street photographed watching construction of the new school on Great Colmore Street.