Horsedrawn carriage on Selborne Road
The photograph is thought to date from about 1903. Selborne Road's most notable resident was the local councillor Edward Fricker Freeland.
Horse-drawn omnibus in St Vincent Street, Ladywood
This small horse-drawn 'family omnibus', as the caption on the original postcard calls it, was photographed in St Vincent Street, Ladywood, presumably around 1900. It belonged to the London & North Western ...
Horsefair in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Use the zoomify button and plug in to read the page clearly. As well as The Horsefair this page also includes the following Birmingham streets:
Homer Street, Hooper Street, Hope Street, Hornsey Road, ...
Horsefair Mosiac
This colorful mural, executed in mosaics in 1966, measures about 30 yards long by twelve feet high, and depicts the Horse Fair that took place on the spot every year until 1911.
This is a closeup detail ...
Horsefair Shops in 1979
The top floor frontages are the same as today giving away their Victorian origins. The shops themselves though have changed since but at the time they were: Horsefair Fish and Chips, Ted Rodgers Bookmakers, ...
Horsefair, Bristol Street
The west side of Horsefair, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken on 4 December 1950. The large industrial building belonged to F.A. Patterson Ltd, who were manufacturers of leather goods. The road on the ...
House Front, Handsworth
This photograph was taken by Vanley because it was intriguing what people will do in an area where all the buildings look the same to make their home look a little bit different. The owner of this house ...
House of the Baskervilles by Chris Upton
A riot, a back garden burial,the deepest canal in Birmingham, a giant dog with luminous eyes. The company that has just bought Baskerville House has also taken over an awful lot of history. The dog we ...
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 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 ...