Fixture list for Handsworth Wood Cricket Club, 1899 second page
Handsworth Wood Cricket Club played on a ground at Brownes Green. Their colours were dark maroon with letters worked in yellow.
Fixture list for Handsworth Wood Cricket Club, 1899, third page
Handsworth Wood Cricket Club played on a ground at Brownes Green. Their colours were dark maroon with letters worked in yellow.
Fog in Perry Barr 1897
A newpaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, December 27 1897.
This article recounts the story of a man attempting to travel from Snow Hill to Perry Barr during thick fog.
Because of the poor visibility ...
Fortune Telling at Handsworth.
A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail" 30th March 1900.
This cutting refers to a "gipsy" Carolina Smith, who lived on the Black Patch, being fined for fortune telling.
Taken from the G.H. ...
Found Drowned
This newscutting reports on the inquest following the death of eighteen year old James Coope. Coope had lived with his aunt and uncle in Livingston Road, had argued with them and had his ears boxed. ...
Fowl Stealing at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 29th January 1887. A short article which gives details of a case heard at West Bromwich Police Court in which two labourers, John Crockett and Walter ...
Francis Canon Hopkins
Full biography of Canon Hopkins, also available as a downloadable file.
The honour which the Chapter of St. Chad’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham, have just conferred upon Father Hopkins, of ...
Francis Road
View of Francis Road in the Victorian/ Edwardian era. Francis Road lies near Five Ways behind the old Children's Hospital.
G.E. Wootton
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download.
Few men are more closely linked with the Handsworth of the past 30 years or so ...
General Calthorpe outside Perry Hall
Perry Hall, Staffordshire. The Honorable General Somerset Calthorpe in Carriage.
The following is a biography of Calthorpe taken from the Handsworth Magazine in November 1899.
Lieutenant General ...
Gibson Road by Rosa Perrins
Gibson Road was named after James Watt - whose middle name was Gibson. This painting is by Rosa Perrins who came from Birmingham. Rosa painted rural scenes and exhibited 42 of them at the Royal Birmingham ...
Grave of George Burrell Ramsay in St Mary's Graveyard
George Burrell Ramsay a Scotsman arrived in Birmingham around 1871. While out walking he saw an Aston Villa F.C. practise match in the spring of 1876. Burrell asked for a game and dazzled the other players ...
Grave of James Henry Stone J.P. in St Mary's Graveyard
The gravestone of James Henry Stone (brother of the photographer and MP John Benjamin Stone) in St Mary's Church Handsworth, also buried are his wife and children. The inscription reads as follows:
"In ...
Grave of William McGregor in St Mary's Graveyard
William McGregor is the man credited with the idea of forming the Football League. Prior to 1888, the only competitive matches played by clubs were in the FA Cup. Once knocked out of the FA Cup, clubs ...
Great Hampton Street, Hockley
Industrial premises at 63 Great Hampton Street, Hockley. The signs over the shop window advertise 'W.J. Clarke. Authorised plumber, gas fitter, zinc worker, &c' and 'E. Swan. Brooch tongues, watch bows, ...
Green Lane by W.H. Vernon
William H. Vernon exhibited regularly at the Royal Birmingham Society Of Artists between 1871-1908. He also exhibited several paintings in London, including at the Royal Academy. Vernon was born and lived ...
Grove Lane, Handsworth
Grove Lane, Handsworth, showing the extension to Handsworth Park that was opened in 1898. The view is from the old boundary of the park towards Kemp's Farm.
Gypsies on the Black Patch
Travellers lived on the area known as the black Patch off Foundry Lane.