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 in College Road, Handsworth
Old houses in College Road, Handsworth. 1897
Houses in Holyhead Road, Handsworth
Old houses in Holyhead Road, Handsworth, at the corner of Crocketts Road. 1906.
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 ...
HRH Princess Alexandra at Lee Bank Primary School
Headteacher Denis Lyons on the day of the visit by the princess:
"Punctually at 1135 a car drove in which contained the princess and Ald. Harold Tyler, the Lord Mayor. Various people concerned with the ...
Hunters Road Blitz Damage
The back of this house in Hunters Road has been reduced to rubble. Upstairs a metal bed frame has been used to help prop up the wooden planking. Down to the left of the photograph the family's tin bath ...
Hunter's Road blitz damage
This photograph was taken on August 13th 1942. The building to the left has been nearly demolished during the air-raid although two vans appear to have survived to some degree.
Hunters Road during the blitz
The aftermath of another air-raid during 1942. This picture was taken on 13th August following another night raid by the luftwaffe.
Hunters Road from Nursery Road
This photograph taken from Nursery Road shows the junction of Hunters Road and Nursery Road. The bridge built above the lower end of Hunters Road was constructed to enable employees of H.Samuel to access ...