Jewish Cemetery at Five Ways
This view of the Jewish Cemetery was taken early last century. The cemetery was located next to the canal and railway line at Five Ways, It is still there today but is not in use and the bodies that were ...
Jewish Cemetery on Islington Row
The cemetery is now closed to all. Although the bodies have long since been removed to Witton Cemetery, some of the monuments have remained in situ. Since this picture was taken it is now extensively ...
Jewish Cemetery on Islington Row
The city’s other Jewish cemeteries had disappeared with the development of the railways. The Froggery cemetery was sold for £260 in 1849 when Birmingham New Street Station was built, and Granville Street ...
Jill Knight MP at St Thomas Junior and Infant School
The then MP for Edgbaston, Jill Knight, opening a play scheme for local children at St Thomas Junior and Infant School on Great Colmore Street. This was only the second one of it's kind to be opened in ...
Job Centre
The once popular Youth Training Scheme at Holyhead Road was knocked down and the new signing-on office/ job centre replaced it.
John Akomfrah director of 'Handsworth Songs'
"John Akomfrah, Director of the award winning 'Handsworth Songs' , filmed during the riots, it is a powerful examination of social, historical, racial and political disorder in Britain. Akomfrah reads ...
John Baskerville by Chris Upton
Until recently it was probably only the artist, the typesetter and the clerk who recognized that there are choices to be made in the way one arranges letters. With the advent of the word processor almost ...
John Bayley Lees JP
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full biography is available as a download.
Mr Bayley Lees is a native of Hill Top and received his early education at ...
John Davies Mullins (Chief Librarian)
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available on this page for download.
Mr John Davies Mullins, whose death at his residence, 32 Wretham ...
John Edward Shilton
John Edward Shilton was a Right-handed batsman who played for Warwickshire Cricket Club between 1894-95.
John Edwards, Steel Pen Manufacturer
John Edwards traded from 40 Hill Street. Hill Street runs up the side of the Post Office into Victoria Square. Birmingham was a thriving home of the pen manufacturing industry and their is a pen museum ...
John Henderson - Grave at Keyhill Cemetery
The engineering partnership of Charles Fox and John Henderson was a great Victorian success story. They built the roof of the old New Street Station. They had a large hand in Paddington Station, built ...
John Hesman interview
John Hesman was born in 1935 and brought up in Emscote Road in Witton, just inside the old Handsworth boundary.
He lived in a "tunnel-back" house- one of several properties that shared the same entry, ...
John Inshaw's Steam Clock - by Chris Upton
At one time, believe it or not, the way to run a successful pub was to make it different from every other one, rather than the same. Some little gimmick or talking point that made customers come there, ...
John Satchell - Deacon and Politician
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download. The house where he died was owned by his son Ernest Percy Satchell (a surgeon)and ...
Johnstone Street, Perry Barr
The Old Malt Factory, Johnstone Street, Perry Barr, photographed on 21st June 1966.
Johnstone Street, Perry Barr
Disused malthouse, Johnstone Street, Perry Barr, on 21st June 1966
Jones's Coconut Shy, Ladypool Road
This is believed to have been located at the fairground on ground behind the Olympia cinema in Ladypool Lane.