New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, looking down Sandwell Road.
Note walls covered with advertisements, including posters advertising Colman's Starch and El Destino cigars. From a photograph in ...
New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
The New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, from the rear. From a photograph in the Birmingham Daily Mail December, 7th 1901.
New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth. View from the rear looking up Sandwell Road towards Holyhead Road, from a photograph that appeared in the Birmingham Daily Mail, December 7th 1901.
New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, showing the Banqueting Room and Ballroom. This was an advertisement issued by Mitchells and Butlers Ltd. The caption adds that all descriptions of social funstions ...
New Inns Public House
The New Inns is situated at 44 Holyhead Road and dates back in it's present form to 1798. Apart from being a publc house it also catered for banqueting and even had a ballroom. The original inn dated ...
New Inns, 42 Holyhead Road
A public house has been on this site at least since the 18th century. Parts of it were rebuilt in 1885 and 1901, and a banqueting hall, the Prince's Suite, was added on in Edwardian times.
Thomas Crockett ...
New Inns, Handsworth
New Inns, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, from a postcard
Old and modern signs on Ladypool Road
The idea of advertising your business by painting on the wall has largely gone out of fasion due to modern alternatives in design. Here we see two surviving examples from different eras on the side of ...
Old Crown & Cushion public house, Perry Barr
The Old Crown & Cushion Public House, on the corner of Birchfield Road and Wellington Road, Perry Barr, in April 1959.
Old Crown & Cushion, Perry Barr
The Old Crown & Cushion Public House on the corner of Birchfield Road and Wellington Road.
Onion Delivery
One of the staple ingredients in Indian cooking is the onion. Every day they are delivered by sackloads on trucks to the restaurants and greengrocers in Balsall Heath. These sacks were being unloaded ...
Oriental Art Studio
Stood at 328 Soho Road, Handsworth between Alfred Road and Rookery Road.
Oriental Art Studio
This was located at 328 Soho Road, Handsworth. It could be found between the junctions of Alfred Road and Rookery Road.
Oriental Art Studio
Oriental Art Studio, 328 Soho Road, Handsworth
Oriental Art Studio
Stood at 328 Soho Road, Handsworth between Alfred Road and Rookery Road.
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.
Phoenix Tavern, Handsworth
Phoenix Tavern, Handsworth.
Taken from the Brick Builder Magazine, September 1938.
Phone card display on Ladypool Road
International phone cards provide a cheap method of keepin in touch with family and friends in other countries. They are readily available in Balsall Heath, often on sale - as here - at stalls outside ...