The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper, sold by Morgan and Viggers Ltd of 81-85 Soho Road, Handsworth. Dated 1st March 1928.
Original pamphlet scanned from item in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, ...
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper, sold by Morgan and Viggers Ltd of 81-85 Soho Road, Handsworth. Dated 1st March 1928.
Original pamphlet scanned from item in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, ...
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper, sold by Morgan and Viggers Ltd of 81-85 Soho Road, Handsworth. Dated 1st March 1928.
Original pamphlet scanned from item in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, ...
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper, sold by Morgan and Viggers Ltd of 81-85 Soho Road, Handsworth. Dated 1st March 1928.
Original pamphlet scanned from item in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, ...
The Fenian dynamite conspiracy in England
Another page of pictures from the Illustrated London News coverage of the discovery of the dynamite factory at 128 Ledsam Street. Top left is The Beaufort Hotel in Southampton Street, London where a conspirator ...
The first motorcycle in Handsworth Wood
Leonard Davies of 11 Himstock Road in 1902. The cycle was built by Milbrowe Smith, a motor car builder who lived at 239 Soho Road.
The former Clifton Infant School, Hertford Street.
St. Paul's Community Foundation School took over the buildings in 1973.
The Fountain, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Fountain formerly stood at the junction of Hagley Road and Sandon Road, Edgbaston, during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The photograph was taken in 1892. This strikingly slender structure ...
The Friary
The Friary and Lodge stood on Friary Road. The Friary was built in 1658 and demolished in 1937 as part of the Grestone development. The black and white half timbered effect was added sometime after 1906.
Occupants ...
The Friary, Friary Road, Handsworth. 21st June 1937
It was built in 1658 as a farmhouse, becoming a gentlemen's residence about 1700. It was eventually demolished in 1937 as part of the "Grestone development". One notable owner was Frederick Arthur Walton ...
The Friary, Handsworth
The Friary, Handsworth, in 1906, from the south west. The Friary, originally built as a farmhouse in 1658 and enlarged around 1700, lay a little way back from the road in Friary Road. It was demolished ...
The Gables Hall, Handsworth
Interior view of the Gables Hall, Finch Road, Handsworth. The building was registered for public worship in 1936.
The Gala
Famously known as The Broadway Cinema for most of its life it was in the seventies known as The Cinephone and in the eighties as The Gala. Showing on this day was "Bambi", probably one of the summer re-runs ...
The Gateway of India
The Gateway of India public house stands on the corner of Soho Road and Ivy Road. It will still be remembered to many by its original name "Ivy House".
The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist born in Rann Street, Ladywood. He is most remembered for his series of novels ...
The Grove
The Grove stands on the corner of Grove Lane and Oxhill Road. It was opened in 1891 and this picture was taken nearly a hundred years later in 1985.
The Guru Ravidass Bhawan, Union Row
The Guru Ravidass Bhawan in Union Row is located off the Soho Road. The new building which was opened in 1992 sits on the site of the old temple which was burned in a fire in the 1980's. The old Bhawan ...
The hall at the Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre was on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street and was formerly used by the Midland Adult School Union. This was the main hall used for many activities including talks, conferences, discos, ...