Grove Lane: The Diving Board of the First Class Swimming Bath
The diving board of the first class pool. In the background are the showers and above that the viewing gallery used for concerts. The baths were opened in 1907.
Grove Lane: The First Class Swimming Bath
Grove Lane's first class baths were superior to the second class in so much as they had private cubicles for changing in along the sides of the pool. The pool was used for concerts on occasions and the ...
Grove off Hurlingham Road 1931
A grove off Hurlingham Road. One of the greatest assets of these new houses were said to be the front and back gardens. Most people used the back gardens to grow vegetables to some degree; an estate report ...
Guinea Gardens
View in one of the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road. These gardens along with farms and orchards spread across this area to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
Garden shed at the Guinea Gardens in Westbourne Road near the Botanical Gardens. The Guinea Gardens originally occupied land from here across to Holloway Head in Edgbaston.
Guinea Gardens
View of one of the Guinea Gardens off Wesbourne Road. These gardens used to spread across the Edgbaston area as far as Holloway Head. The last remaining Gardens, which achieved a heyday in the Victorian ...
Guinea Gardens
This charming chair and shed are on one of the Guinea Gardens plots in Westbourne Road near the Botanical Gardens. In the distant past the gardens swept all the way across Edgbaston to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
The main gates to the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road in Edgbaston. The guinea gardens used to run all the way across to Holloway Head near the city centre but today the last of the gardens can be ...
Gurdip Gill interview 1
Gurdip Gill was born in Birmingham in 1969. His father is a Sikh who moved here from the Punjab around 1950, and has often talked to his son about what it was like when he first arrived:
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Gurdip Gill interview 2
Gurdip Gill was born in Birmingham in 1969. Gurdip Gill was 12 when riots broke out in Handsworth:
To listen to an extract of this interview select the link below.
Recorded and edited by Helen ...
Gurdwara
Ravi Das Bhawan, on Grove Lane/Union Row.
Gurdwara Yaad Baba Deep Singh JI Shaheed
Stands on the Soho Road. Photograph taken one afternoon in Ocotber 2003.
Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara
The Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara in Mary Street. The was the first Sikh temple in Balsall Heath and was opened in 1958
Guru Nanak Gurdwara
Located on the Soho Road. The first was opened in 1970 in a former Polish nighclub. This building is an imposing feature of the Handsworth landscape.
Guru Nanak Temple
The Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara on the Soho Road named after the founding father of Sikhism. The first one in Handsworth was opened in 1970 taking over the premises of a Polish nightclub.
Guru Nanak Temple
The imposing front entrance of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara.
Guru Nanak Temple
The temple is a familiar part of the Handsworth skyline.
Guru Ravidass Bhawan
Stands on Union Row and is one of the most visible landmarks on the Handsworth skyline