Birmingham Council House
Hand tinted postcard of Birmingham Council House in Victoria Square dating from the early 20th Century. The statue of Queen Victoria (to the centre)is still there but the one of her son Edward VII was ...
Birmingham Library Staff training with the Birmingham Pals
Picture World followed the recruitement and training of the men in the three Birmingham Pals Battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. These men (from the 1st Battalion)are seen training in Yorkshire. ...
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Broad Street
The Birmingham Municipal Bank was established on a permanent basis by the Birmingham Corporation Bill (it was previously Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank). The building is still there today (opposite ...
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Broad Street, Birmingham
This interior view of the Birmingham Municipal Bank in Broad Street, Birmingham, reveals the sort of space one might expect from the rather grand Neo-Classical facade. The building was designed by T. ...
Birmingham presents Lloyd George with the Freedom of the City
A ticket for the ceremony at the Town Hall when the Council presented David Lloyd George with the Freedom of the City. All presumably went well but many of those present (including Lloyd George) would ...
Birmingham Public Libraries Book Exchange Service
This photograph shows the delivery van outside the old Central Library at Ratcliffe Place. The lady looks very much like the stereotypical image of a librarian!
Birmingham Public Library
Birmingham Public Library, seen from Edmund Street and looking along the Ratcliff Place frontage, from a tinted postcard. The far end of the building beyond the entrance portico is the Birmingham and ...
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Broad Street
The second Repertory Theatre in Birmingham was opened in 1971. Its predecessor is known as "The Old Rep" and can be found on Station Street. Over the years the "New Rep" on Broad Street has played host ...
Birmingham Super Prix
Every August Bank Holiday weekend from 1986-1990 Birmingham city centre was transformed into a street racing circuit, Formula 3000 cars screaming down Bristol Street, Belgrave Middleway, Sherlock Street ...
Birmingham Town Hall
Interior view of the Town Hall looking towrds the stage and organ. The Town Hall has been closed for some time for essential renovation work but is set to re-open and once again become one of Birmingham's ...
Birmingham's Messerschmitt
This article from the Evening Mail reads as follows: This Messerschmitt arrived in Birmingham today for exhibition at the Civic Centre to stimulate interest in the Lord Mayor's Spitfire Fund. The plane, ...
Blondin walks across The Reservoir by Chris Upton
Derwentwater, Windermere, Loch Lomond. When the names of Britain’s great lakes are mentioned, Rotton park reservoir can be forgiven for having something of an inferiority complex.
The name itself, ...
Blythe Street
Blythe Street is no longer there. It used to run from the Ledsam/ Ryland Street junction down to Ladywood Road. Today a school and open space occupies the site.
Blythe Street, Ladywood
Blythe Street, Ladywood, in a photograph probably taken in the 1960s before redevelopment. The photographer was apparently standing outside the unusually-named Vesper Bell public house on the corner of ...
Bomb Damage in Bristol Street
To the right of the photograph is The Wellington Public House which still stands at the junction of Bromsgrove Street with Bristol Street. The windows have been visibly blown out in the blast which has ...
Bootmaker on Easy Row
Advert for D. Andrews the bootmaker at 4 Easy Row. Easy Row is now only found in Birmingham as a walkway running alongside the Copthorne but in the nineteenth century it was a thriving street of local ...
Bow Street
This view of Bow Street was taken from the Windmill Street end looking towards Irving Street. Right behind you today would be Clydesdale Tower.
Boy Soprano killed - Alfred Toy of Monument Road
This cutting is taken from the Sunday Mercury and concerns the sad death of Ladywood Soprano, Alfred Toy. The article reads:
The funeral of Master Alfred Toy, who lived at 48 Monument Road,and who was ...