I was brought up around here...
I was brought up around here, and the Handsworth area. I didn’t really have any trouble, I was going to school in the morning and by the time I got back I wasn’t going to hang around on the streets. So ...
I’ve been here since January 25th 2003...
"I’ve been here since January 25th 2003, I was in Vorton house in Woodview for 24 years. The block is on its way down now, it had to be emptied. So it was an internal transfer.
We weren’t too happy ...
I’ve been here three and a half years...
‘I’ve been here three and a half years. I was the first one-bedroomed flat to have a rewire. The kitchen’s fantastic. I moved to Birmingham because I have friends here, I feel very safe because we’ve ...
Icknield Street
View of Icknield Street in the nineteen fifties. To the left is Spring Hill Library, a fine redbrick Victorian structure still there to this day. The shops have now long gone but they include Walter Smith ...
Icknield Street (part 2) and Icknield Port Road (Part 1) in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
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Icknield Street part 1 in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
First part of the entry for Icknield Street. Also included on this page are entries for Hurst Street (part of), Hutton Road, Hyde Road, Hylda Road, Hylton Street, Icknield Square.
Icknield Street part 3 in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following streets: Idbury Road, Ilmington Road, Ilsley Road, Imperial Road, Inchcape Avenue, Inge Street, Ingestre Road, Ingleby Street, Ingleton Road, Inkerman Street.
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Icknield Street railway bridge
The bridge was at the junction of Icknield Street and Pitsford Street. The bridge has since been replaced and now carries the Metro en route between Snow Hill and Wolverhampton. To the right is an advert ...
Icknield Street School, Ladywood
Inside Icknield Street School, Ladywood. The school opened as Icknield Street Board School in 1883 and became a Secondary Modern school in 1945.
'Idle Dreams'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: plastika.
Labels on reverse: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] The City Art Gallery, Worcester. 1953' & 'Exhibition of Midland Photography. ...
Imperial Cinema Advert
The Imperial was one of the earliest cinemas in Birmingham. It was built, in 1914, by Harry Grigg,who owned the pork butchers shop next door. Although the nature of the films shown changed over the years ...
Imran Enterprises on Ladypool Road
Greengrocers and general supplies. This is near to the junction with Studley Street. The row of shops here were originally the Birmingham Co-Operative Society.
In a tramcar crush - a conductor's violence
This cutting is one of many which relate to the problems of loading passengers onto trams in Old Square. There was no organised queueing system and getting onto a tram was very difficult. In this instance ...
In Memoriam by Raymond Mason
The painting came about as a consequence of Mason's return to Birmingham when his mother had passed away. The area of his youth was itself now "dying" too, bulldozers moving in to demolish the old housing ...
In the Stocks at the 1980 Carnival
"Tony (Stokes) and I thought we would have a cool-off because it was a nice hot day and so we went in the stocks. Not known to us was someone has gone in The Railway (Clifton Road) and told people we ...
Indenture of fine of a cottage and lands in Handsworth
Indenture of fine between Henry Lane, plaintiff and George Lane and Joan, his wife, deforciants, of a cottage and lands with appurtenances in Honesworthe [Handsworth].
Creation: Michaelmas term 5 ...
Indenture of fine of a cottage and lands in Handsworth
Indenture of fine between Henry Lane, plaintiff and George Lane and Joan, his wife, deforciants, of a cottage and lands with appurtenances in Honesworthe [Handsworth].
Creation: Michaelmas term 5 ...