Represent Project Introduction
‘Represent’ is a community heritage project exploring the impact of WW1 and gaining the vote on the lives of Birmingham’s people. The People’s Heritage Co-operative was awarded a National Lottery grant ...
Reredos and Holy Table in St Thomas's Church
Sadly destroyed by bombing in World War Two. The Reredos was erected in 1923 and served as a memorial to the men of the parish killed in the First World War. The Holy Table was a memorial to the late ...
Rev C.T. Aston (St Thomas's Church)
In 1919, the Trustees (of St Thomas's Church) appointed to the Living the Rev. C T Aston, Vicar of St Matthew’s, Rugby. Taking up his duties at Easter, he soon won the hearts of all by his happy disposition, ...
Rope walk, Handsworth
Rope walk, Handsworth. The rope making business was owned by Mr Haines but ceased at his death c.1914. In the background is Soho Road railway station.
Rose Villa Tavern, Warstone Lane
An interior view of the Rose Villa Tavern which is situated at the junction of Vyse Street and Warstone Lane. It was built in 1919 at a cost of £15,000, the architects being Wood and Kendrick.
Round Room at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The famous Round Room looking very different to how it is today. It still has paintings on the walls and the floor looks to be the same. In this view from the early part of last century the main difference ...
Royal Visit of George V and Queen Mary
Following the end of the First World War George V expressed a wish to make a visit to Birmingham. He had last been in 1915 to see facilities for wounded soldiers at Bournbrook and was known to have a ...
Royal Warwickshire Regiment - World War One
A collection of images from the website relating to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in World War One. Due to the nature of local recruitment many of the men were from Birmingham and this exhibition concentrates ...
Royal Warwickshire Volunteers
This picture is of the Royal Warwickshire Volunteers during the First World War. The photograph is dated 1914. It has been has pointed out that: "the vague semblance of military uniforms the men (as opposed ...
Samuel M. Goldstein - lecturer and writer
This profile, from the Sunday Mercury, is of one of their regular writers. Goldstein, of 35 Holloway Head. There was at this time a large Jewish community in the Holloway Head area with two synagogues ...
Scala Cinema, Smallbrook Street, Birmingham
The Scala Cinema, in Smallbrook Street, Birmingham, was opened on 4 March 1914 and in its earlier days was famous for its 12-piece orchestra. Unlike some cinemas it had an air of luxury about it in its ...
Singing specialist on Pershore Road
This advert is for Mr Cola D'Ore - a "teacher of voice production and singing in the true old Italian method". Mr D'Ore gives some useful references to follow up. John Sims Reeves was an English vocalist ...
Site of Dog Racing Track, Perry Barr by H Bailey
This watercolour by H Bailey shows the site of the Dog Racing Track at Perry Barr before it was developed. This would have been the first dog racing track which is now the site of the One Stop shopping ...
Soho Road
Early twentieth century view of the Soho Road.
Soho Road looking towards the Library
Undated postcard - late nineteenth to early twentieth century. View looking towards the Library on the left hand side of the photograph.
Somewhere in Hunland
Sunday Mercury article about Birmingham men being held prisoner by the Germans during the First World War. The men pictured are all in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The original image was sent by Private ...
St Mary's Church, Handsworth
Interior of St Mary's Church, Handsworth, looking east, from a postcard
St Andrew's Church, Oxhill Road
In 1894, in a temporary building, the Church of the Good Shepherd opened as a mission Church of St Mary's. In 1908 the present church building in the Decorated style was erected on Oxhill Road, near ...