A Dance at The Tower Ballroom
Poster for a Dance for the City of Birmingham Municipal Officers' Guild held at the Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston Reservoir. Dancing was to be from 8 till one for the princely sum of three and six for a pair ...
'A Distinct Sensation'
This newscutting tells of a young lady from Perry Barr who had ventured out in her furs for the first time that autumn. As she got on the tram and passed down the car the other passengers began to blink ...
A Donkey Cart
A donkey and trap joins the parade past the library on Moseley Road. The gentleman immediately behind the trap is Ron Ford. The building to the right became a Sikh Temple.
A Freak Chicken
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Weekly Post, September 30th 1905.
The article shows an illustration and description of a four legged chicken.
The bird was one of a hatch of Plymouth Rock chickens ...
A Grand Concert
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing a Grand Concert in the grounds of the Old Crown and Cushion on Birchfield Road in aid of the Perry Barr Reservists Fund. There is still a pub called the ...
A Guard killed at Perry Barr
These newscuttings report the death and inquest of train guard Mark Robins. Robins was a guard on a L&NWR coal train to Perry Barr. He was directing his train into a siding to allow a football train ...
A Handsworth Milkseller in trouble
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette 21st May 1883.
The article refers to a Mr Henry.E. Leckington, a milk seller of Terrace Road ,Handsworth, being summoned for selling milk below the standard ...
A horse sale in the Horse Fair
The Horse Fair is located off the island at the end of SmallBrook Queensway and it runs into Bristol Street. In the later years of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were regular horse ...
A knobbly knees competition in Brunswick Road
This is thought to date from the Coronation street party in 1953. Knobbly knees competitions are always associated with holiday camps such as Butlins and this was probably the inspiration for the Brunswick ...
A lady killed at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the death of Mrs Elizabeth Wells. Mrs Wells was the wife of Austin L. Wells of Warren Farm, Perry Barr. She was being driven to Birmingham ...
A lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.
A Lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.
A lamp for Gas Hall.
lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece with a curator from South Africa.
A lost Street Piano
A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail",19th June 1897.
This is a short article about an abandoned "street piano" that the police confiscated from a group of "Peaky Blinders" in Handsworth. It ...
A party of girls about to start for Canada
A party of girls about to start for Canada from the "Emigartion Homes". John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable ...
A Perry Barr Divorce Suit - Assaulting a Wife with a Turkey
This newscutting reports on a divorce suit brought by Agnes Mary Barnes against her husband Frederick James Barnes, a commercial traveller. It was alleged that Barnes had committed adultery with one ...
A pharmacy on Ladypool Road
The modern sign for a chemist is the green cross which shows the pharmacy is fully licensed to dispense medicine. Despite the fact that more drugs are available over the counter there is still a large ...
A pint in the Woodman
This picture, by Lewis Green, was taken in The Woodman pub which used to stand on Cregoe Street until 2005. The two people in the picture are unknown but at least one local resident remembers the gentleman ...