Building the Middleway Blocks
Building of the four Middleway Blocks commenced in the early nineteen sixties. At the time this picture was taken significant land clearance has obviously taken place in what was to become the open parkland ...
Building work off Wheeley's Lane
Building of new flats by Crest Nicholson. The site is on the corner of Wheeley's Lane and Bath Row. To the rear of the photograph is the old Accident Hospital - formerly the Queen's Hospital.
Bursting of the canal at Edgbaston
Under the heading 'Serious accident at Birmingham' this print illustrates the scene that resulted when the Worcester and Birmingham Canal burst on Sunday morning, 26 May 1872. Considerable damage was ...
Cambridge Crescent, Lee Bank
No. 1, Cambridge Crescent, Lee Bank. This scene, photographed on 11 October 1960, could be in some quiet little market town, but Cambridge Crescent is off Springbank Road, just round the corner from Wellington ...
Canon Edward F. Fenn
Father Fenn founded the Mission of St. Catherine in the Horsefair. He was born in Wolverhampton on 4th September 1837. After spending one year working at St. Chad's Cathedral he arrived in Bristol Street ...
Car crash in Edgbaston
This newscutting from the Birmingham Gazette of 2 December 1924 reports a road accident in Hagley Road, Edgbaston. Two people in the car escaped with their lives when the vehicle skidded and hit a tramcar ...
Chamber Of Commerce, Harborne Road, Edgbaston
In the 1950s the Calthorpe estate commissioned their own plan for future development from local architect John Madin, probably the first such town-planning framework to be commissioned by a private urban ...
Charity presentation for the Children's Hospital
The Birmingham Sporting Club raised a lot of money for local charities. They held regular functions at The Tower Ballroom at Edgbaston Reservoir. Here they are presenting a £1,000 cheque to the House ...
Charlotte Road
Picture postcard view from early twentieth or late nineteenth century of Charlotte Road. A very different rural scene from today.
Charlotte Road
Taken by the Public Works Department in 1971 looking up Charlotte Road towards the flats.
Charlotte Road
Lying just off the Woodview Estate and looking down the road towards it.
Chatsworth and Longleat House
A view from the benches off Bell Barn Road looking towards Chatsworth and Longleat Houses in the distance. Both of these towers were named after country houses.
Chest in St Thomas's School
This chest stands outside the headteacher's office in St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. Its history is unknown but it may have once been a chest used to store school documents. There is a possibility ...
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 ...
Christmas letter to parents
An interesting letter to parents from the headmaster Denis Lyons. Mr Lyons makes reference to the power cuts that were taking place in the UK at the time. All of the pre-Christmas school activities are ...
Church converted into flats - by Year Five at Woodview School
This church was St James church.
Church of the Redeemer, Edgbaston
Card printed by the Church of the Redeemer in Hagley Road, Edgbaston. The themed services, at 6.30 on Sunday evenings, were directed particularly at young men and women. The Church of the Redeemer was ...
Church Of The Redeemer, Hagley Road
The Church of The Redeemer, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, was a Baptist church, built on land on the corner of Wyndham Road donated by local benefactor William Middleton. It was designed by James Cubitt and ...