Harris's Lithographic Establishment, New Street
Harris's specialised in chalk drawings, maps, plans and writings as their advert proclaims. They were based at 88 New Street opposite the Society Of Arts. The Society is still there today at the top of ...
Harry Richardson - District Surveyor
Harry Richardson's biography comes from the Handsworth Magazine, and is also available as a download file. Mr Richardson lived at 166 Oxhill Road.
Mr Harry Richardson, A.M.I.C.E., who was appointed ...
Hasluck Family crypt at Key Hill Cemetery
The Hasluck family lived in Handsworth, most famously at The Austins. Elizabeth Hasluck's paintings of the Austins can be found elsewhere on this site. Key Hill Cemetery in the city centre is the location ...
Hawthorn House
Hawthorn House was built around 1790 and was occupied by a Mr Villiers in the early nineteenth century.
Edwin L Bullock, the owner of an Iron Foundry and Nail Works in George Street, West Bromwich ...
Haycart - Canada
Here we see one of the young emigrées working on the farm. John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable concern. ...
Haytime at Hamstead Mill
Oil painting by John Joseph Hughes. Hughes, who lived at Villa Road in Handsworth, was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited at galleries in London and Birmingham. Between 1862 - 1908 he exhibited ...
Hazards of travelling on Trams
This cutting from the Birmimgham Times is drawing attention to the hazards faced by outside occupants of the Perry Barr and Lozells trams. A number of boys were hiding behind walls and throwing missiles ...
Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust in Ombersley Road
The old factory building and site in Ombersley Road, now used by the Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust (UK) for education and training. A splendid mosque is also part of the complex.
Headteacher Denis Lyons records his thoughts on the opening of Lee Bank Primary School
Mar 14th. (opening ceremony to) be performed by HRH Princess Alexandra.
Mar 14th. Meeting at school of high education, police and other officials rergarding arrangements for the ceremony.
Mar 15. School ...
Heath Mount School
Heath Mount School, built across Knutsford Street, replaced Belgrave School in Mary Street and opened in November 1970. The head was Godfrey Mundy.
Heath Mount School netball team
The prize winning Heath Mount School netball team.
Heathfield - home of James Watt
Heathfield was the former residence of the inventor and engineer James Watt. Following his death the house had several occupiers including local luminaries Thomas Pemberton and George Tangye
Heathfield Christmas Card
Heathfield was the former residence of the inventor and engineer James Watt. Following his death the house had several occupiers including local luminaries Thomas Pemberton and George Tangye. In the bottom ...
Heathfield Hall
The former home of James Watt - inventor and engineer who worked with Matthew Boulton. It was built in 1790 and stood on grounds that lay between Hamstead Road, Church Hill Road and Heathfield Road. The ...
Heathfield Hall
The former residence of James Watt (died 1819), this view shows the lightning conductor erected by Watt. It is isolated by means of flint chipping as a non-conductor.
Heathfield Hall by Allen Edward Everitt
Everitt (1824-1882) was a prolific Birmingham artist and antiquarian whose watercolours and line and wash drawings are an important visual record of the historic architecture of the West Midlands. He ...
Heathfield Hall by Beatrice Bullock
Heathfield Hall, the former home of James Watt painted by Beatrice Bullock and given to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1938.
Beatrice Bullock lived in Handsworth at 14 Kingsleigh Road and painted ...
Heathfield Hall Visitors Book
Two pages of a Visitors Book, from Heathfield Hall. Part of one entry speaks of the Post Office in Greenock, Scotland, trying to contact descendents of James Watt in order to carry out repairs to James ...