Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
Bromsgrove Street
This image was taken during the blitz. The road is closed due to unsafe buildings. To the right can be read asign for J.P. Udal - Wire Work Department. Above it is a sign for Reliance Jig & Tool Service: ...
Browning Street corner cafe
This is probably at the junction with Great Tindal Street and St Vincent Street. A very different view to today. Back in the pre-WW1 years the Price family moved into Browning Street having moved from ...
Browning Street in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Also includes the following roads: Broomfield Road, Brougham Street, Broughton Crescent, Broughton Road, Brueton Street, Brunswick Gardens, Brunswick Road
BSA advert from The Oratory church magazine
An advert for BSA's pushbikes and motorbikes as sold by The County Cycle Company who were based at 307 Broad Street. The advert tells us that a racing bike could be had for £8 5s. Roadsters were more ...
Building the Etap Hotel
The hotel, at the Bristol Street end of great Colmore Street, was constructed in modular fashion. Each room being dropped into place and connected to the next. In the background are the lovely top floors ...
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 the new Central Library
A view of the scaffolding around the new Library as it was being built. The two concrete pillars to the left and right of the picture are part of the Library structure. Intriguingly the picture also manages ...
Bulpitt and Sons Swan Brand advert 1958
Advert for Swan Brand from the Birmingham Student carnival magazine, 1958.
Bulpitt and Sons Swan Brand catalogue 1938
Long handled frying pans from the Bulpitt and Sons 1938 trade catalogue.
Burrows is brought down
The fire brigade arrived after ten minutes; by now Burrows was unconscious and they spent thirty minutes strapping him into a harness (with the aid of Wilcox) and lowered him to the ground whereupon he ...
Cambridge Street
This view of Cambridge street is radically different to today. Not much stnads there now with the Rep carpark on one side and a garden on the other for most of its length. Back in 1928 it was the usual ...
Canalside Signpost
This post is by the canal, just down the steps from the entrance at the end of Bath Row where it joins Islington Row. Distances are listed to:
The Vale, Somerset Road, University, Granville Street, ...
Centenary Square
Centenary Square lies just off Broad Street which is running North/South to the left of this picture. Five of Birmingham's most imposing buildings are in this scene. The tall glass building to the rear ...
Chamberlain Fountain
Delightful postcard of the Chamberlain Fountain near the Town Hall. Three young ladies taking time out to pose happily for the camera.
Chamberlain Gardens
Development of the area off Ladywood Road in the late 1950s and early 1960s gave rise to the new Chamberlain Gardens. A number of recreational facilities were provided for the people who lived in the ...
Chamberlain Square
Photograph taken duing the great freeze of 1946/1947. The scene looks familiar due to the presence of the Chamberlain Fountain and the two statues,still in the area today albeit in different positions....