Walter Langley: 'Never morning wore to evening...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was born in Birmingham and was brought up in Irving Street. He trained at South Kensington School of Art (1873-75) and later on, in 1882, went to live in Newlyn, Cornwall, as ...
Walter Langley: 'O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was a genre painter favouring fishing village scenes which are a far cry from his childhood in Irving Street, Edgbaston (now in Lee Bank). From 1882 he lived in Cornwall at ...
War Memorial in Handsworth Cemetery
Commemorating the dead of both World Wars.
Washday on Hogarth House
For these two ladies (one is Lewis Green's mother) this was a very different washday experience. Both would have remembered the "brew 'us" in the yards of the back to back housing and the network of lines ...
Wasiffa Sound System, Handsworth Park
Watercolour of a dog by John Phillp
This watercolour of a dog is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Watercolour of a moonlit seascape by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour of a spaniel's head by John Phillp
This watercolour of a dog's head by John Phillp may show Dash, the favourite dog of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). It is labelled drawn from nature by John Phillp 1796.
The ...
Watercolour of an old key belonging to Matthew Boulton by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour of Garden Temple by John Phillp
This watercolour shows a garden building which is almost certainly the Temple of Flora on the Shell Pool at Soho, the landscaped garden created by industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton.
This ...
Watercolour of variegated holly by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born ...
Watercolour study of a cabbage leaf by John Phillp
This study is labelled
'Drawn by John Phillp, from a cabbage which grew in his garden at Handsworth, Staffordshire July 27th 1811.'
It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches ...
Watt Chapel, St Mary's Church
Statue Of James Watt in his chapel of rest at St Mary's Church. Watt was a partner of Matthew Boulton, and is renowned for his development of the steam engine. The unit of electrical power is named after ...
Weather Conditions at Soho
This meteorology book covers the years 1806 to 1810, page by page.
This is one of a series of notebooks that record in minute detail the daily weather conditions at Soho Manufactory. They were mostly ...
Weather Conditions at Soho - Page 101
This is one of a series of notebooks that record in minute detail the daily weather conditions at Soho Manufactory.
To see this volume in its entirety, page by page, go to 'Handsworth Histories' in ...
Weather Conditions measured at Soho Manufactory
This is one of a series of notebooks that record in minute detail the daily weather conditions at Soho Manufactory.
To see more of this volume, page by page, go to 'Handsworth Histories' in the 'Gallery' ...
Wedding in West Bromwich
Bride and bridesmaid at a wedding in West Bromwich