Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane, Handsworth. It was founded with a grant from the Bridge Trust and opened, as the Bridge Trust School, on 5th August 1862 with 59 pupils. The name was changed ...
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane
Handsworth Grammar School opened as the Bridge Trust School on 5th August 1862. The original building cost £2,300 and consisted of one large schoolroom, two smaller classrooms, a cloakroom, a porch and ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane
This school was opened 5th August 1862 by the Handsworth Bridge Trust to provide education for boys aged seven to fourteen. The land for the site of the school was purchased by the Bridge Trust for £1,000 ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth. Opened as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth, in a postcard view. Originally built as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became the Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Library
Undated photograph of the library probably taken sometime in the 1990's. The library is one of the oldest buildings standing on the Soho Road.
Handsworth Library
The Librarian's Room at Handsworth Library. 1913. The library was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and newspapers in the Reading Room. The first Annual Report in 1881 stated that the ...
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for childrens' books. The view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for fiction books, the view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and ...
Handsworth Library and Council Buildings
One afternoon in October 2003
Handsworth Library on the Soho Road
Handsworth Library's 19th Century readers
Who were the people using Handsworth Library in the late nineteenth century?
Until 1902 the Annual Report recorded the trades of borrowers. 'Scholars and students' were always the largest group. There ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
A different view of the hall to the way it is seen today, overgrown with creepers.
Handsworth Old Town Hall - Sites and Monuments Record
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane, some 100 yds below the Grove Tavern. It is of plain domestic architecture of the sixteenth century community of Handsworth, when it was a mere village. ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Handsworth
Cruck House at the junction of Slack Lane and College Road, Handsworth, on 13th August 1932. The listed building, also known as Handsworth Old Town Hall, dates back to the 15th century and was restored ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Handsworth
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth, photographed in November 1981. Using the traditional cruck method of timber framing, the building dates from the 15th century and was renovated in 1947....
Handsworth Police Court
An illustration from the "Handsworth Herald", 4th February 1893, showing the recently completed Police Court building in Thornhill Road.
Taken from the G.H. Osborne newscuttings collection
Handsworth Public Library
Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and newspapers in the Reading Room. The first Annual Report in 1881 stated that the Committee:
'had the ...