Handsworth Church Bazaar
Bazaar held at the local board rooms in aid of the National Schools.
Handsworth Community Library, Handsworth
Handsworth Community Library, Soho Road, Handsworth. The building had started life in 1879 as the council house for Handsworth Urban District Council. The branch library opened in the building in 1880. ...
Handsworth Council Offices
Building commenced on October 30th 1877. It is located on the corner of Soho Road and Stafford Road and is now familiarly known as the location of the public library.
Handsworth Fire Brigade, Birchfield Road Station.
The brigade was originally formed in 1878. 1898 £2,200 was borrowed to erect a new fire station and buy better equipment. The Birchfield Road station was acclaimed as one of the most efficient in the ...
Handsworth Grammar School
Formerly known as the Bridge Trust School it opened on 5 August 1862 and consisted of one main room alongside two smaller classrooms and a boardroom. It became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Grammar School - Sites and Monuments Record
Designed in 1862 by a Mr Bidlake of Wolverhampton at a cost of £3,300. Constructed from red and black brick with stone dressings and a tile roof.
The building is single storeyed with seven bays. The ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth. Opened as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for childrens' books. The view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for fiction books, the view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and ...
Handsworth Library's 19th Century readers
Who were the people using Handsworth Library in the late nineteenth century?
Until 1902 the Annual Report recorded the trades of borrowers. 'Scholars and students' were always the largest group. There ...
Handsworth Magazine
The Handsworth Magazine started publication in July 1896 and described itself as a "local society magazine". The local areas targetted were Handsworth, Perry Barr and Birchfield and the appeal was towards ...
Handsworth Old Rectory (and Manor House) - Sites and Monuments Record
The site of the Manor House was "not improbably" that occupied by the old rectory, close to the church, now part of Victoria Park. Its moat could have been fed by the little stream that still trickles ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
View of the rear of the property taken sometime in the nineteenth century.
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, and tenement, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
This painting shows the Old Town Hall as it appeared in 1840. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, ...
Handsworth Park
from the tennis courts looking towards St Marys Church.
Handsworth Park Bandstand - Sites and Monuments Record
Late nineteenth century. Octagonal in plan. Brick base with iron Corinthian columns carrying elaborate ironwork with stars in the spandrels.
The bandstand has a domed roof with cupola and weathervane....
Handsworth Park Umbrella - Sites and Monuments Record
Presented by Austin B Lines in 1888.It may formerly have had a fountain inside. It is octagonal in plan and made of iron. Slender fluted shafts of
an Early English Gothic type support scalloped arches ...