An elderly woman and a child sat in front of a wall
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
An man wearing a suit and glasses sat next to table with photograph on
From The Ernest Dyche Collection.
An older girl and a younger girl
From The Ernest Dyche Collection
Anderton Street
Josephine Codling lived at 115 Anderton Street. She is seen here holding her son Ricky and (on the right) her friend's son David Bannister.
Anderton Street
Norman Bartlam writes that: This picture and others like it filled the pages of the local press as a prelude to a visit to the area by Housing Minister Richard Crossman. After the ministerial visit, which ...
Anderton Street celebrates
The residents are gathered to celebrate the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The boy on the right in the white peaked cap is Ernie Pearce. Leslie Checkley, who donated the photograph, recalled ...
Anderton Street Coronation celebrations
Street party celebrating the coronation of George VI on May 12th 1937 at Westminster Abbey. This photograph was taken in the yard of 2 back Anderton Street.
Anderton Street Recreation Ground
Taken circa 1955. The two little boys are Ray and Graham Usher.
Andy Hamilton, Saxophonist, Ralf DeCambre, Guitarist
"Andy Hamilton, saxophonist ,was born in 1918, Port Maria, Jamaica. His first exposure to music was through his family and the church, and he made his first saxaphone out of bamboo. In 1928 he formed ...
Anti Nazi Demonstration, High Street, Deritend
Police protect the Digbeth Civic Hall where the Nazi National Front are meeting.
Apache Indian, Reggae / Bhangra Artist
"Steven Kapur aka Apache Indian born 1967, Handsworth, Birmingham. For well over a decade he has skillfully fused Bhangra and Reggae to achieve international chart success, including seven British Top ...
ARP Shelter toilets at George Road
The toilet cubicles in the shelter are between the main rooms. All of the doors have now gone but some of the pans and cisterns remain, one or two still being apparently useable.
ARP shelter under George Road
The former air-raid shelter consists of a maze of corridors and rooms, unused since the end of World War II. This is one of the corridors with the painted "no smoking" sign still in evidence on the wall....
Article on James Watt's attic
This cutting is included in the Pemberton album held by the Handsworth Historical Society. It gives useful background information on much of the equipment featured in the photographs from that album.
The ...
Article on Matthew Boulton, page 1
This article on Matthew Boulton is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours, sketches and other items by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). The original source of the article is not known but it was ...
Article on Matthew Boulton, page 2
This article on Matthew Boulton is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours, sketches and other items by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). The original source of the article is not known but it was ...
Article on Soho House by Arthur T Bolton, page 1
This article on Soho House by Arthur T Bolton was published in Country Life on 6th November 1913. This page includes photographs of the Entrance Hall and Dining Room. The plan shows it as it was in ...
Articles of Plate &c. in the Butler's Pantry at Soho House taken by J Westley, cover
This inventory of Plate in the Butler's pantry at Soho House was taken by J Westley in 1832. Soho House was at that date the home of the widowed Matthew Robinson Boulton (son of Matthew Boulton) and his ...