Bell barn shopping centre
Located just off Cregoe Street, this is how the one side of the shopping centre looked in 1974. The lady on the right has been identified as local resident Gladys Nend. Her sister still lives in the area ...
Bell Barn Shopping Centre, Lee Bank
Bell Barn shopping centre, off Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, was a small precinct built during the 1960s redevelopment of the area. Oddly enough it was not particularly close to Bell Barn Road. When this photograph ...
Belliss and Morcom football team.
John Spencer donated this photograph of the works football team in action in the 1950's. Their home ground was in Highfield Lane Quinton.Players would regularly cycle from Ladywood to the ground on the ...
Benmore Stores
Benmore Stores, on the Benmore Avenue estate, an area redeveloped between Pershore Road and Bristol Road where the two roads run parallel to each other.
Bernard Allen at work in Freeman and Ward
Freeman and Ward was located at the Bath Row end of Cregoe Street. They made equipment for the local hospital as well as brass and copperware. Bernard Allen started work there as a 14 year old. Here he ...
Best and Lloyd Ltd
Located at Wattville Road for a number of years, the company made a large variety of Electrical light fixtures and fittings.
'Best' Lighting for Hotels and Restaurants. Trade Catalogue.
Front Cover. ...
Big bargains at Bradshaws
Advert placed in the Evening Despatch during Bradshaw's closure period. This one is noteworthy for it's appeal directly to male customers. Most of the local residents who remember Bradshaw's would agree ...
Bingley Hall
Bingley Hall used to stand just off Broad Street in the Symphony Hall/ Repertory Theatre area. It was regularly used for public events of all kinds, most famously perhaps for the annual cattle shows and ...
Birchfield Road, Handsworth
Birchfield Road underpass, Handsworth, under construction on 19th July 1961
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Shops in Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, between the Crown & Cushion and the railway station, visible to the far right in the form of the corrugated roof of the platform steps. From a private photographic ...
Birmingham Household Supply Association Ltd
The Birmingham Household Supply Association traded on Corporation Street in Birmingham City Centre, selling all manner of goods for the home. Advert taken from the programme for the Saint James' Church ...
Birthday cake on Ladypool Road
This unusual looking birthday cake certainly adds style. There are a growing number of cake and gateau outlets in the area. Taken by pupils from Anderton Park School as part of a project looking at how ...
Booth's Farm
Booth's farm was part of the Perry Hall estate. The farmhouse was thought to date back to the sixteenth century.
It takes its name from its most famous tenant, the forger William Booth. He rented ...
Booth's Farm, Perry Barr
Booth's Farm, Perry Barr, in 1903. This was for a time the home of William Booth, who was hanged for the forgery of banknotes and coins in 1812.
Booth's Farm, Perry Barr
Farm Labourers at Booth's Farm, Perry Barr.
Booth's Farm, Perry Barr
Farm Labourers at Booth's Farm, Perry Barr.
Bootmaker on Easy Row
Advert for D. Andrews the bootmaker at 4 Easy Row. Easy Row is now only found in Birmingham as a walkway running alongside the Copthorne but in the nineteenth century it was a thriving street of local ...
Boulton & Watt - Weekly Wages Book, 1826-1830
This volume is presented page by page, up to the year 1828.
It records weekly wages and includes totals spent on: carpenters, smiths, fitters, bricklayers, labourers, foundry men, pattern-makers, and ...