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 girl in a hat and German style dress, holding the ends of the dress
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
A girl in a white ruffle dress holding flowers
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
A girl lying on the floor wearing clown outfit with her foot touching the hat
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
A girl wearing a dress and top hat
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
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 group of boys and girls in three rows
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
A group portrait of two adults and several children against blank background
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
A group portrait of two adults and three children
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
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 hand painted portrait of a woman wearing a black and white patterned shirt against blue background
From The Ernest Dyche Collection.
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.