George Road ARP Shelter
The fuse box inside the underground shelter. The shelter has not been used since World War II but is still there underneath the George Road flats and retains some of the fixtures and fittings. The fuse ...
George Road ARP Shelter
The urinals in the underground public ARP shelter at George Road. Still there today but unused for 60 years, though it was probably earmarked for use at other post-war times such as the Cuban Missile ...
Goodbye E.R. Mason
Taken moments before the the demolition of the youth club. The club had stood for decades just off Cregoe Street but was demolished this year as part of the urban regeneration of Lee Bank. Poignantly ...
Gravestone in the Jewish Cemetery
The disused cemetery stands next to the railway line which at one time threatened the site. The walls of the cemtetery have a slight historical interest as there is now so little in the immediate area ...
Greenhill Road
One afternoon in October 2003
Ground excavation
Excavation and clearance for the new park area off Bell Barn Road. Part of the Crest Nicholson development of Attwood Green.
Grove Lane Baths
Grove Lane Swimming Baths was converted into flats. An estate of houses has also been built alongside it. As a child I regularly attended there with school, and during the holidays. A place which many ...
Guinea Gardens
View in one of the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road. These gardens along with farms and orchards spread across this area to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
View of one of the Guinea Gardens off Wesbourne Road. These gardens used to spread across the Edgbaston area as far as Holloway Head. The last remaining Gardens, which achieved a heyday in the Victorian ...
Guinea Gardens
This charming chair and shed are on one of the Guinea Gardens plots in Westbourne Road near the Botanical Gardens. In the distant past the gardens swept all the way across Edgbaston to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
The main gates to the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road in Edgbaston. The guinea gardens used to run all the way across to Holloway Head near the city centre but today the last of the gardens can be ...
Gurdwara
Ravi Das Bhawan, on Grove Lane/Union Row.
Gurdwara Yaad Baba Deep Singh JI Shaheed
Stands on the Soho Road. Photograph taken one afternoon in Ocotber 2003.
Guru Nanak Gurdwara
Located on the Soho Road. The first was opened in 1970 in a former Polish nighclub. This building is an imposing feature of the Handsworth landscape.
Guru Nanak Temple
The Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara on the Soho Road named after the founding father of Sikhism. The first one in Handsworth was opened in 1970 taking over the premises of a Polish nightclub.
Guru Nanak Temple
The imposing front entrance of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara.
Guru Nanak Temple
The temple is a familiar part of the Handsworth skyline.
Guru Ravidass Bhawan
Stands on Union Row and is one of the most visible landmarks on the Handsworth skyline