Osler Street school renovation
Extract from the school log of Osler Street School on 28th March 1973:
"Numbers still down but improving. At 1500 hrs Mr ?, Mr Stickland and Mr Denton call to discuss plans to extend the school to ...
Osler Street School report
A glowing school report for Barbara Cooper of Form 1A in Osler Street Senior Girls' School. It is dated 17 July 1942, and we note that young Barbara came second in a class of forty. The girl who came ...
Osler Street School, Ladywood
Osler Street School in Ladywood was opened first as a boys' school on 15 November 1875. The girls' school followed in 1886, and the Junior and Infants' School in 1908. Much later, in 1962, the Follett ...
Osler Street School, Ladywood
In 1992 Osler Street School, Ladywood, looks in a very sad state, with barely a pane of glass unbroken on the first floor. Built in 1875 the school closed in 1972, but it was then found necessary to bring ...
Osler Street School, Ladywood
Taken in 1968 from the Clark Street side.
Osler Street School, Ladywood
Class Two Juniors circa 1930. The pupils include Alf Tranter, ? Peters, George Powick, ? Ridley, ? Sideboth, ? Reeves, George Shutts, ? Harris, ? Williams, ? Daniels. Two of the girls are Connie Barrett ...
Osler Street School, Ladywood
Osler Street School in Ladywood stands as a backdrop for a portrait of three long-serving members of staff. On the left is John Welsh, headmaster in the 1970s when the school was closed and replace by ...
Osler Street School: Mr Jones with former pupils
Former pupils Douglas Busk (right in glasses) and David Freeman meet up with teacher Mr C. Jones shortly before closure of the school. The school closed in July 1972. This picture is copied from the Douglas ...
Osler Street, Ladywood
A view of the side of Osler Street School, Ladywood, in March 1968, not long before the closure of the school in 1972. The road is Osler Street itself, looking down towards Icknield Port Road. After a ...
Ossie interview
Ossie was born in 1964 and lived in Handsworth throughout his childhood. He remembers the riots in 1985 and rejects the idea that they were caused by inter-racial tensions:
To listen to an extract ...
Oswald Mosley stands for Ladywood
Oswald Mosley will always be remembered for his political party - The British Union of Fascists. Prior to this though he had been a Unionist (Conservative) MP for Harrow. He then resigned the seat and ...
Outdoor group photo, probably from a wedding
including bride, groom, groomsmen and three bridesmaids.
From The Ernest Dyche Collection.
Outside Faraday House
Gwen Hatton posing with her brother-in-law Stan Hancox on the road outside Faraday House. Behind them to the left is Lee Bank Post Office and behind them to the far right is the shuttered frontage of ...
Outside the Middleway blocks
This view was taken by resident May Williams who lived in the blocks. The blocks are still there today, upgraded and renovated, at the top end of Lee Bank Middleway as you approach Five Ways.
Outside the White Swan
This is undated but probably post World War II. The crowd happily posing for the camera are outside the White Swan at the corner of King Edward's Road and Stour Street.
Outside toilet in Handsworth
"Quite a lot of people thought that outside toilets had disappeared...yet there were still some about in the 80's. Urban regeneration in Handsworth saw an end to such (in)conveniences." Pogus Caesar, ...
Owen Street junction with Wheely's Lane
Taken in 1960 not long before demolition began of Owen Street. The park area of Lee Bank was built over the area.
Oxford Terrace, Icknield Square, Ladywood
A view of Oxford Terrace, off Icknield Square, Ladywood, in August 1967. Clearly the houses were still occupied for the washing is out (was the photograph taken on a Monday?) but redevelopment would soon ...