Cavendish House, Grosvenor Road, Handsworth
Cavendish House, Grosvenor Road, Handsworth.
This house was owned by James Henry Stone the brother of John Benjamin Stone J.P., Photographer and Councillor.
Caverns with Boats by John Phillp
This pen drawing by John Phillp shows caverns with boats. It seems likely that these are the Dudley limestone caverns.
The image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches ...
Central stem and branch of a candelabra by John Phillp
This pencil and crayon drawing of a candelabra is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence ...
Central stem and branch of candelabra by John Phillp
This pen and ink drawing of a detail of a candelabra is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the ...
Central stem of a branched candelabra by John Phillp
This pen and ink drawing of a detail of a candelabra is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the ...
Central stem of a branched candelabrum by John Phillp
This pen and ink drawing of a section of a branched candelabrum is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's ...
Chapman's Mill - by Chris Upton
Turn the clock back a little more than a century and there were genuine windmills to see in Birmingham and not a Dutchman in sight. Perhaps the most famous of them stood in the unlikely location of Holloway ...
Chapman's Windmill and R.Wier on Holloway Head
Chapman’s brick built tower mill stood on the hill overlooking Holloway Head. It is thought to have been constructed in 1745 by Clark’s who were millwrights in Deritend until the late 18th century. There ...
Charles William Perkins, the City Organist
An abridged version of the article from Volume 1 Number 11 of the Handsworth Magazine. The full article is available here to download.
Mr Charles William Perkins is a native of Birmingham, but has ...
Charles Henry Glassey - Handsworth Conservative Association
This is an abridged version of his biography, the full version being available as a download on this page.
Mr C H Glassey, F.N.S., the indefatigable Secretary of the Handsworth Division Conservative ...
Charlotte Road
Picture postcard view from early twentieth or late nineteenth century of Charlotte Road. A very different rural scene from today.
Cherry Orchard Farm
Cherry Orchard farm was owned in 1900 by the Hales family. It was said to have dated from the fourteenth century, in 1327 it was listed as the home of Atte-Le-Berg. The house was demolished in 1930 and ...
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth
Cherry Orchard Farm, Hamstead, Handsworth. One of the larger farms in the area, the house was demolished in 1930 and gave its name to the modern Cherry Orchard Road.
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
Inside the Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children, on the corner of Sheepcote Street, was originally founded in 1862 and was in this ...
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
Inside the Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children, on the corner of Sheepcote Street, was originally founded in 1862 and remained in ...
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
The Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children was founded in 1862 by Thomas Heslop and moved to this building on the corner of Sheepcote ...
Child's Death at Perry Barr
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald relating to the death of two-month old Thomas Henry Adams of Well Head Lane.
From the G.H. Osborne newcuttings collection.
Christian Kunzle plaque
Blue plaque for Christian Kunzle in Birmingham. This plaque is on the site of Kunzle's shop which stood where the Abbey National Building Society is in Five Ways Shopping Centre. Kunzle is fondly remembered ...