Bissell Street
The shop at the far right is unidentifiable apart from a large advertisement for "Wills' Woodbines". The street perhaps was named after Richard Bissell Prosser, the patents examiner and biographer from ...
Bissell Street
Hackwood's Jack Tar Soap works with, looming to the left, the tower of St David's Church. The church had closed in 1947.
'Black Magic'
Photograph by Ruth Handley.
Label on reverse: 'Handsworth Photographic Society. Accepted and Hung [at the] Exhibition of Midland Photography, 1954'.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist ...
Black Patch, Woodburn Road
This piece of land had formed part of Sycamore Farm. The name Black Patch may come from a cinder track which was laid out as a training ground. Towards the end of the nineteenth century it became well ...
Blessing of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank
The blessing of the new Catholic Church of St Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank, would have taken place in 1965. The new church, designed by Harrison & Cox, was built in 1964/5 on the corner of Bristol Street ...
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 scare near Boulton Road in October 1974
Bomb scare near Boulton Road, Handsworth. October 1974
Bomb scare near Boulton Road, Handsworth. October 1974
Booth Street Adventure Playground in 1974
Booth Street, Handsworth
Adventure playground in Booth Street, Handsworth, in August 1974
Boulton Road
Outside number 44 looking south.
Boulton Road
Outside number 44 looking north.
Boulton Road, Handsworth
Boulton Road, Handsworth, on the occasion of a bomb scare nearby, October 1974
Bow Street
Cleared area in Bow Street in 1956. Bow Street is located behind the Clydesdale Tower block. The sign just visible to the left is for J.W.Pickavant who made parts for motor cars.
Bow Street with Hopkins advert
Clearance work on Bow Street looking towards the end where Clydesdale Tower now stands. The advert on the building is for H.A. Hopkins Ltd clothing manufacturer and maker of Hoplan coats and suits.
Bow Street, Lee Bank
Bow Street, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken before demolition and redevelopment.