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 ...
Children in Back Yard, Handsworth
Children Playing
Children playing on trampolines at a fun day at the Mohammed Ali Centre in Hockley
Children Playing
Young girls pretending to be Diana Ross and the Supremes. Their stage is the dustbin shelter.
Children playing in Lee Bank Pool
A hot summer's day at Lee Bank in July 1969
Christmas at The Rezza
This article is from the first issue of the Ladywood Brew 'Us Bugle)
This was the Birmingham All the Year Round Swimming Club pictured at Edgbaston Reservoir on Christmas morning 1909. The weather ...
Cilla Black and David Warner
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967.
Cilla Black and David Warner at Five Ways
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967. The bus is a number 9 to Quinton.
Cilla Black and David Warner at Five Ways
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967. The bus is a 130.
Cilla Black filming at Five Ways
In 1967 the singer Cilla Black made her acting debut in the film "Work...Is A Four Letter Word". The Birmingham weekly paper called The Planet ran a feature on the filming which took place in and around ...
Cilla Black meets the public at Five Ways
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967. With Cilla is her co-star David Warner.
Clifton Road School football team
This image was sent by Graham Partlett who is second from left on the back row. The teacher is Mr Bennett. Graham writes: "Neither the school nor our parents had the money to buy soccer kit, so most of ...
Coach trip to Weston Super Mare from Lee Bank
This picture dates from circa 1957 and shows a party of people from the Y Blocks getting ready to embark for Weston Super Mare. At this time the development in the area of Lee Bank was still very recent ...
Councillor C.A. Palmer - JP and Cyclist
This is an abridged version of Councillor Palmer's biography. The full version is available as a download. Councillor Palmer in fact lived at Park Hill off Hamstead Hill and not Hamstead Road as this ...
Couple Dancing at a Birthday Party
Behind the couple is an important detail in the picture. The calender behind comes from the first major black business in the area - Top Pops in Wolverhampton
David Warner and Cilla Black
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967.
Day Trip to Skegness
Many African Caribbean families were unable to take annual one or two week holidays away from Birmingham, as a lot of white people did. Often people were saving up for a trip back to the Caribbean, or ...
Day Trip to Skegness
Young people from Handsworth on a day trip to Skegness