Warwickshire Laundries, Ladypool Road
Advert for the company reading: "Open the door to freedom, by using the Warwickshire Laundries fully finished service". The laundry was baed at 96 Ladypool Road and had delivery offices from as far away ...
Watson's Ltd of Broad Street
Watson's were "Your local Leyland super dealer" trading in Minis, Allegros, Princesses and Marinas. This advert was from the St Luke's Church Magazine.
Well Head Farm, rear view
Built c.1600 rebuilt c.1830 demolished 1974 this farm stood on the corner of Wellhead Lane and Aldridge Road.
Well Head Farmhouse
This is the farmhouse for Wellhead Famr which was demolished in 1974. It stood on the corner of Wellhead Lane and Aldridge Road.
Wellington Road Roman Pottery - Sites and Monuments Record
In 1959 in Wellington Road a Romano-British kiln was found and excavated. The remains of the kiln included tapered clay fire-bars, pieces of the floor, possible fragments of kiln walling, flat stone ...
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 ...
Wheeley's Lane, Lee Bank
59 Wheeley's Lane, Lee Bank, photographed on 20 July 1960. In the directories G.M. Jones is listed as a beer retailer, the name over the shop window indicating that the beer in question was Ansells. More ...
Why Bake on Ladypool Road
This car was outside a local cake shop. The number plate is very appropriate for a local baker! The car was certainly hard to miss for the pupils we took on a trip to see the road. Picture taken by pupils ...
Wilkes Greengrocers, Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
The premises of F.W. Wilkes, greengrocers, of 118/119 Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, are seen here in a photograph taken on 4 July 1964. The shop was on the north side of the street, at the junction ...
William Barnwell (bakers) and Spiers & Son (fish, fruit and flowers)
William Barnwell's services as a baker and corn dealer also expanded to supplying confectionery. It is interesting to note his claim of seeling "unadulterated bread" predating modern adverts of a similar ...
William Booth's Forgery Materials
Metal Plate, forged note and false coins found in the grounds of Booth's Farm, Perry Barr.William Booth the forger lived at the farm and was hanged for his crimes.
William Henry Boraston - Wine, Spirit and Ale Merchant
Advert for William Henry Boraston who traded from 191 Soho Road. Boraston lived at "Cora Lynn" on Holyhead Road. In the Trade Directories of the time he is actually listed as a Grocer, so possibly he ...
William Middlemore's factory
This engraving shows Mr William Middlemore's factory in Holloway Head. Middlemore first appears in the 1840s as a currier, saddler, harness maker, patent leather manufacturer, and army and navy accoutrement ...
William Murdock - Inventor of Gaslight
Article from the Daily Graphic about William Murdock's experiments in Redruth. Murdock worked as an engineer for the firm of Matthew Boulton and James Watt in Handsworth, but for some years he represented ...
William Murdock commemorative plaque in Redruth Cornwall
This plaque, erected by the Tangye Brothers of Handsworth Birmingham, is on the side of William Murdock's house in Redruth. Murdock was an engineer and worked for Matthew Boulton and James Watt. He will ...
William Murdock's house in Redruth Cornwall
In 1792 William Murdock heated coal in the garden of his house at Cross Street, Redruth and piped it into the house, where he lit a series of burners attached to the other end of the pipe. This was the ...
Working on Mary Street
Elizabeth McKeon didn't have far to go when she started work on Mary Street in the sixties.
"My first job was at H (Harry) Monty a firm of seamstresses making dresses. For my job interview I wore a ...
Wrensons Advert
This was in the Birmingham Mail. Wrensons had several stores across the city including in Ladywood.