Sun Street West and Summer Road
Sunfruit Stores at the junction of these two roads. Some nice adverts along the road for Persil and Danish Bacon amongst others. Notice the two prams outside the shop, both mothers presumably inside Sunfruit ...
Sunny Face of the Community Centre
All visitors to the Community Centre in Gaywood Croft (off Cregoe Street) were greeted right away by this large sunny face on the landing.
Superprix Pass
Sponsor's pass for the 1989 Superprix event in Birmingham over the August Bank Holiday. Part of the track followed the middleway that runs through the Lee Bank area and along Bristol Street. The hospitality ...
Suspicious Death in Birmingham
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the inquest into the death of William Newton of Franchise Street, Perry Barr. He had been out drinking at the Freeholder's Arms and the next ...
Sweetshop on Newcombe Road
The Jones family owned and ran a sweetshop at 174 Newcombe Road. The Jones family are pictured here to the side of the shop window.
Sycamore Farm & William Murdock's House
This photograph shows Sycamore Farm (the buildings in the foreground), not visible, behind the farm is Alexandra Road and the house in the centre is the house once owned by William Murdock. The children ...
Sycamore Farm, Handsworth
Sycamore Farm, Handsworth, from Queens Head Road, looking south. On the wall are posters for a public meeting relating to Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897.
Sydney by Joseph Lycett
Joseph Lycett painted the Australian colony after he was transported there for forgery. Lycett eventually returned to England settling in Birmingham at Bath Row. He was again arrested for forging bank ...
Sykes's Timber and Saw Mill, Sheepcote Street
John Sykes established the business in 1862 trading from premises rented at one shilling a yard.Timber was imported and unloaded at the nearby railway wharf. The business kept going until 1966 when it ...
Taking a break
Workmen taking a break from preparing Haddon Tower on Bristol Street for demolition. They are removing fixtures and fittings; their progress down the tower was easy to spot by seeing if a floor had still ...
Tariq Choudry and Pervaiz Khan
"Art Activists, WMEMAS Office, Holyhead School. Tariq Choudry went on to have a successful career in Birmingham City Council. Pervaiz Khan is a theatre director, multimedia artist and film maker and has ...
Taxing Times for Gladstone by Chris Upton
Mr Joseph Lloyd Phelps of Lee Crescent was idly looking through his morning post : bills from the coal merchant and grocer, note from his brother in law, subscription request from the local improvement ...
Temple Minaret
View from the Soho Road.
Tenant's Deposit- Wynn Street
Receipt for the deposit paid by Dorothy Blackford and her husband for their flat on Wynn Street. The Blackford family were paid a visit by the Queen Mother as part of her visit to the area. The Queen ...
Terms for Footmen, Soho House
This memorandum sets out the wages and liveries for Footmen at Soho House. Soho House the former home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was by this date the home of his widowed ...
Terrace in Bell Barn Road after an air raid
The damage was from an air raid of 9th April 1941, the picture being taken three days later. The family smiling for the camera are possibly a surprise to modern day viewers of this photograph. The determination ...
Terrace in Villa Road
Numbers 34 to 42 Villa Road in 1981. This 'stepped' terrace was built in the late 1840s on land leased from Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, the grandson of the industrialist Matthew Boulton. This land did ...
Thanksgiving at St Asaph's Church
First page of a leaflet publicising the thanksgiving service held at St Asaph's Church in 1901. The church stood at the heart of the Lee Bank community on Latimer Street and Great Colmore Street. The ...