Looking down New Street during the VE Day 60th Anniversary celebrations
Note the modern smaller barrage balloon flying by the fountain.
Malvern Street Easter Fair
Malvern Street Playground Easter Fair 9 April 1977 Children enjoying activities on a site which three years later saw the development of Malvern Street Farm. In years gone by this was a terraced street....
Malvern Street Easter Fair
Malvern Street Playground Easter Fair 9 April 1977 Children enjoying activities on a site which three years later saw the development of Malvern Street Farm. In years gone by this was a terraced street...
Market
Handsworth Market, once a thriving busy part of life in Handsworth. After numerous fires to the remains, the site was left derelict, such an eyesore! Last year the bulldozer came and flattened the land, ...
Matthew Murray: Wrestlers at Holyhead Leisure Centre
Matthew Murray - text by Addie Vassie at hug, Amsterdam
Matthew’s images are universal in their insight and unintentionally have a tendency to make the viewer smile, by essentially capturing ...
McDonalds Drive-In Restaurant
The McDonald's restaurant occupies a site on the junction of Lee Bank Middleway and Bristol Road. Prior to the building of McDonald's this site was occupied by the Abc/ Bristol Cinema.
McDonald's Restaurant - by Year Five at Woodview
The restaurant is on the Bristol Road. This is a great picture from the class - the captured reflections are amazing.
Meeting room at the Attwood Green Community Centre
The downstairs meeting room next to the kitchen area. The Centre was home to all manner of community activities which have now migrated to various venues in the Attwood Green area. It was demolished as ...
Meeting room at the Attwood Green Community Centre
The Centre was demolished as part of the urban regeneration of Lee Bank. It had been a centre for all manner of community activities - which have been maintained since at a variety of venues.
Metro Gates
Winson Green Metro Station gates. What I like best about them is the ornamental décor reflects the history of the Handsworth area: wheels, cogs, steam, and pumps, which were what the area was once famous ...
Metro Station
Handsworth has its own Metro station. I thought it would be nice to show some evidence of the environmental improvements to the area. Its quicker travelling by Metro, than by bus to get to Birmingham ...
Metro Train
The Metro stop in Handsworth is at Booth Street. As you move from the Winson Green stop you can see the surrounding area of James Watt School and what we would have viewed from the embankment as children....
Midland Adult School Union on Severn Street
By 1960 this building subsequently became home to the Birmingham Athletic Insitute. Today in 2004 it is boarded up with an uncertain future.
Milestone
A milestone on Holyhead Road. Grade 2 listed street furniture. Dating back to around 1800, it shows a distance of 111 miles from London to Birmingham, 3 miles to Birmingham and 10 miles to Wolverhampton. ...
Montgomery lookalike at St John's Church
St John's Church in Ladywood was host to a VE Day exhibition put together by Norman Bartlam and Eileen Doyle. This gentleman was part of a theatrical group who were there on the day. He is a Viscount ...
Monument Road and Icknield Port Road, Ladywood
This article, by Norman Bartlam, is from the excellent local history magazine "Brew 'Us Bugle". The caption reads: "This was the corner of Monument Road and Icknield Port Road as it looked in 1962 and ...
Moonlit Park
Children from St Thomas's School entering Moonlit Park for the official opening. The occasion was vibrant and colourful with all the children in costumes they had made themselves.
Moonlit Park opening
Children from Woodview Primary School forming part of the procession into Moonlit Park for the official opening ceremony. The children made their own costumes for the occasion.