Freer Road Blitz damage
As well as damage to property, there were always damaged roads to be repaired during the blitz. Associated problems would come from damaged water mains and gas piping. This photograph was taken in 1942....
Freer Road Blitz damage
Damaged housing in Freer Road from the air-raids of 1942.
Mr Keith Berry has Kindly supplied the following information about this photograph:
"They are number 144, 146 and 148, all of which were too ...
Freer Road Blitz damage
The house on the right is number 147 Freer Road, at this time lived in by Mrs Alice M Jacobs. To the left is number 145 - the home of L Potter. Both families would have had to find family or friends to ...
Funeral of Private Harold Hackett (1435, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
The funeral cortege of Private Harold Hackett who served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was 26 years old and died at Eastbourne of wounds recieved while on service in France. The ...
Gas Mask
Gas mask of type issued to the residents of Handsworth in World War Two. The threat of bombs exploding containing poison gas, or even a bomb exploding near gas piping were major concerns for Civil Defence. ...
Gas Mask Distribution
Policemen loading vans with gas masks at Birmingham ARP headquarters. There was a widespread perception that the German luftwaffe would drop poison gas on Britain during the Blitz, and so masks were given ...
General Calthorpe outside Perry Hall
Perry Hall, Staffordshire. The Honorable General Somerset Calthorpe in Carriage.
The following is a biography of Calthorpe taken from the Handsworth Magazine in November 1899.
Lieutenant General ...
George Onions VC
George Onions won the Victoria Cross in the First World War with the Devonshire Regiment. He managed to take 247 German soldiers prisoner and bring them back to British lines, with the assistance of one ...
George Road
This view is from the exit of the George Road ARP shelter. The shelter was used during the Second World War but has not been in use since. Above the shelter are flats which can be seen in this view looking ...
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 ...
Gillott Road during the Blitz
Although German bonbing targetted factories and the like during the Blitz, many houses were also hit. Raids were usually at night and each morning after meant dealing with scenes like this.
Grand Armistice Ball at the Palais De Danse
Invitation card for the Grand Armistice Ball at the Palais De Danse on Monument Road in Ladywood. Entertainment provided by Stan Hudson and his band.
Grand Review
Grand Review of the First Warwickshire Volunteers in Calthorpe Park. 1860
Grant Street, Lee Bank
Destruction in Grant Street, Lee Bank, caused by enemy action on 19th November 1940. 80 houses were demolished and 200 others badly damaged. Five people were killed and A.R.P. Warden Henry Pickering was ...
Hampton Loade Station
End of the line for Woodview Primary School was at this station on the Severn Valley Railway. From here they had to leave the train and travel by ferry and coach to their "Dig For Victory" WW2 evacuation ...
Handsworth Volunteer Company
Handsworth Volunteer Company c.1915
Alan Bragg (Sitting extreme right, founder and secretary of Handsworth Historical Society) and Leonard Davis, standing extreme left (an early committee member of HHS....
Handsworth Volunteers
Handsworth Volunteers who went out to the South African War 1899-1901