The "Y" Blocks
Looking towards Nash House on Grant Street. To the left are the low rise flats and Avon House and to the rear, just visible, is Lansdown House. The picture was taken from Bell Barn Road looking over the ...
The 1921 Miners' Strike
The photograph shows "the Handsworth volunteers" during the 1921 Miners' Strike. The picture is probably taken at Hamstead Colliery. The mines had been returned to private ownership following the First ...
The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Road
The entrance Hall to The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Road. Built by a Mr Constantine c.1900 the wood panelling and beams are all of polished dark oak. The frieze shows a hunting scene on the left, ...
The artist David Bomberg
David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a painter, born in Sutton Street off Holloway Head. His family moved to London though when he was still an infant.
Bomberg returned to Birmingham ...
The Attwood Green Community Centre being demolished
Just over thirty years after it was opened as a centre for the Midland Adult School Union, the building was demolished as part of the regeneration of the Lee Bank area. Latterly it had played host to ...
The Austins
The house stood on 22 acres of land bordered by what is now Island Road, Sandwell Road, Oxhill Road and Camp Lane. The house was most famously owned by the Whateley/ Piddock family for many years until ...
The Austins and elsewhere by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck
Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at The Austins. Elizabeth presented a bound volume of 28 of her watercolours to her son Ernest for Christmas in 1885. This gallery contains ...
The Austins Watercolour album
The inscription by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck in the album of watercolours she gave to her son Ernest on December 25th 1885. Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at the Austins. ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
The origins of the club go back to 1947 when Charlie Humphrey, who lived in Balsall Heath Road and attended Dennis Road School, was shown a cycle speedway bike by one of his school friends and began laying ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
An action photograph of the Balsall Heath Panthers in action on their newly laid track in Balsall Heath Road.
The Balsall Heath Panthers
This photograph shows a little more of the bomb-site location which was home to the Panthers for their early years.
The Balsall Heath Panthers
Possibly one of the sunday morning crowds which gathered to watch the Panthers race. The shops in the background were pulled down as part of the later urban renewal of the area. It was by tracing the ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
Another image from the early years of this cycle speedway team who raced on Balsall Heath Road. At this point there is no safety rail on the outside of the track. The crowd seem to enjoying the race, ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
One of the speedway team taking a corner on the cinder track circuit on Balsall Heath Road. The probable year is 1947, the year the club was formed.
The Bartley Family: Our Balsall Heath
This is a picture of Jimmy Bartley of Dublin, taken in Johannesburg South Africa, during the Second World War (circa 1941) where he was convalescing after being wounded. When Jimmy (Sonny, to family ...
The Bates Murder
Newsagent Thomas Bates was murdered in the course of a robbery at his premises on Lee Bank Road on June 2nd 1962. This photograph shows Chief Inspector Baumber talking to the deceased's brother inside ...
The Beach Street Gang
George Thorp (who owns the picture) says: There were gangs all over Ladywood but they shouldn't be confused with teenage gang violence which erupted throughout Britain in the late '50s. These gangs were ...
The Beehive, Garbett Street, Ladywood
The Beehive public house was at 31 Garbett Street, Ladywood, and to judge from the evidence of the photograph was an Ansell's pub. Both the pub and the street were swept away in the course of redevelopment. ...