The Sentinels, Holloway Circus, Lee Bank
In April 1970 the view down Holloway Head, Lee Bank, shows the Sentinels - Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers. These matching 32-storey towers were designed by James A. Roberts in association with the City ...
The visit of the Queen Mother - by Chris Sutton
On 2nd May 1957 H.M. The Queen Mother visited the new blocks of flats built between Great Colmore Street, Grant Street and Wynn Street. These blocks - Avon, Lansdowne and Nash - are still known locally ...
Towards Chatsworth Tower
View down through the park. To the left are the houses on the end of Bexhill Grove and to the right is Chatsworth Tower. In the middle distance is the side of the Community Centre and in the far distance ...
Trip to Weston Super Mare
Another view of the trip from the Y Block area to Weston Super Mare. This presumably is the party from the "other" coach as they look to be a different group to the people in the first photograph.
Vase and photographs
Including photograph of Princess Diana.
View from Clydesdale Tower roof
This view is looking towards the new Bullring development. The Debenhams store is visible in the middle distance.
View from Lansdown House, Great Colmore Street
Picture taken by Lansdown resident Olive Dowdeswell as her visitors leave down below. In the background we can see the construction of the lytham Croft area of Lee Bank. At one time opposite Lansdown, ...
Washday on Hogarth House
For these two ladies (one is Lewis Green's mother) this was a very different washday experience. Both would have remembered the "brew 'us" in the yards of the back to back housing and the network of lines ...
West Park area
Prior to the building of the West Park, this is the construction site area. To the distant left is St Thomas's Church, to the middle distance are Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers (The Sentinels) on Holloway ...
When I moved in here...
‘When I moved in here I had nine months to get everything I needed for a flat and a baby. It was an emergency move so I just took what I could. But I can’t plan anything at the moment because we don’t ...
Wild Poppies by Haddon Tower - Angela Maloney
Another view of the poppies in contrast to the tower.
Wild Poppies near Haddon Tower - Angela Maloney
A nice contrast image. Haddon Tower will be demolished in Summer 2006 but the poppies will flower again.
Winter in Lee Bank
From the collection of the late May Williams comes this seasonal image looking towards the former Community Centre and the former Packwood House. In the forground can be seen part of the old parkland ...
Woodview to Lee Bank
View looking over Lee Bank Primary School towards central Lee Bank in the distance. St Thomas's Church spire on Bath Row is visible to the right in the distance as is the Telecom Tower.