Household shop on Ladypool Road
This shop sells decorative items for the home. The range of goods is quite diverse and all are of quite ornate design. Picture taken by pupils from Anderton Park Primary School as part of a project looking ...
Houses at Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth
Old houses on the site of new Board School, Rookery Road, Handsworth. A photograph taken in 1898, the year Handsworth School Board opened the new school.
Houses at Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth
Old houses on the site of new Board School, Rookery Road, Handsworth. A photograph taken in 1898, the year Handsworth School Board opened the new school.
Houses at the Technical School, Handsworth
Old houses on the site of Handsworth Technical School in Golds Hill Road, Handsworth. 1908
Houses at the Technical School, Handsworth
Old houses on the site of Handsworth Technical School in Golds Hill Road, Handsworth. 1908
Houses in Balsall Heath Road
Keith Whitehouse's family had to leave No 271 Balsall Heath Rd in 1968 because of the clearance. Keith says, “My memories of the house and Balsall heath are fantastic and at the time I didn’t want to ...
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury, owner of a General Store at 55 Key Hill, Hockley c1910
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury, owner of a General Store at 55 Key Hill, Hockley c1910
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury, owner of a General Store at 55 Key Hill, Hockley c1910
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury
Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury, owner of a General Store at 55 Key Hill, Hockley c1910
Housing Conditions
Cannon Hill Place, Balsall Heath which ran between Hallam Street and Jakeman Road. This is typical of the environment in parts of Balsall Heath in the 1970's as large swathes of decrepit housing was boarded ...
Housing conditions
November 1975. Residents of two streets, George Street and Homer Street in Balsall Heath went to court to force the council to re-house them. This was the cover story in the November 1975 edition of The ...
Housing Conditions
Housing conditions were so bad that a number of tenants were forced to take legal action against the Council.
This was the cover story in the November 1975 edition of The Heathan which can be accessed ...
Housing Conditions
Here we see the interior of one of the tenant's houses before they were forced to take legal action.
This was the cover story in the November 1975 edition of The Heathan which can be accessed at this ...
Housing Conditions
Several families in George Street and Homer Street forced the council to re-house them. These are the conditions of their original homes.
This was the cover story in the November 1975 edition of The ...
Housing Conditions
One toilet shared between several households in a shed at the back. And there's no door! Several families in George Street and Homer Street forced the council to re-house them. These are the conditions ...
Housing Conditions
Another variation on internal plumbing. Toilet and tin bath that would have to be filled from jugs and, if there was no heated water, kettles. Several families in George Street and Homer Street forced ...
How to take care of your respirator.
Leaflet producet by Birmingham City Council advising on how to look after
a gas mask.