Osler Street School report
A glowing school report for Barbara Cooper of Form 1A in Osler Street Senior Girls' School. It is dated 17 July 1942, and we note that young Barbara came second in a class of forty. The girl who came ...
Pantomime at the Prince Of Wales
A piece from the local press promoting the panto at the Prince Of Wales Theatre during the war. The theatre, on Broad Street, was destroyed by bombs and incendiaries during the war. Seen rehearsing for ...
Parachute and Harness
Part of the parachute and harness attached to the landmine dropped on Antrobus Road during the blitz. Unfortunately it is unknown exactly what year this was though it would have been between 1940-1942. ...
Pigott Street and Pinfold Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following roads: Phipson Road, Piccadilly, Pickford Street, Piddock Road, Piddock Street, Piers Road, Pineapple Grove, Pineapple Road, Pinfold Street, Pitcairn Road, Pitney Street. ...
Pitsford Street in the blitz
Pitsford Street runs off Clissold Street and near to Warstone Lane and Key Hill Cemetery. Then as now it was home to small industrial premises and the area here was an obvious target for the Luftwaffe. ...
Plaque to commemorate the evacuation King Eaward VI, Five Ways, school
A plaque erected in Monmouth school as "a token of admiration for the high public spirit shown by the residents of Monmouth and in grstitude for the hospitality extended to hte boys who lodged in the ...
Prepared - The Birmingham ARP Journal
Front cover of the Birmingham ARP Journal from April 1939. This is five months before Britain and France declared war on Germany but the cover image is very evocative of the Blitz. Handsworth was heavily ...
Prepared: Handsworth in the Blitz
Handsworth endured heavy bombing during the Second World War due to its large number of munitions factories. Due to close proximity the local housing also suffered and the cycle of nighttime raids and ...
Queen's Hospital, Bath Row
This print is by L. Tallis of London. The hospital was founded in 1847 on Bath Row becoming Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1941 and closing in 1993. The building frontage was listed and incorporated ...
Queslett Road
A photograph taken in the later 1930s in Queslett Road, along the city boundary looking west. The flat-topped tower of the 'Beacon' Cinema is clearly
visible.
Rats: Wartime Poster
Published by the Austin Motor Company Safety and Welfare Department. Many posters were published during WW2 for public information. This warning about keeping shelters tidy is one of the less commonly ...
Raymond Mason in the Bull Ring
Raymond Mason grew up in Wheeley's Lane and arguably became Birmingham's foremost artist and sculptor. This rare cutting from the Second World War era shows him at work in the Bull Ring sketching the ...
Rear of Brookfields School
Another image of Brookfields school taken after it was hit during an air raid in 1941. this appears to show what is left of one of the upstairs classrooms; a plaque is clearly visible on one of the walls. ...
Rear of Brookfields School in the blitz
This image of Brookfields school was taken after it was hit during an air raid in 1941. The school is also known as Ellen Street School as it stood on the corner of Ellen and Pitsford Street. The school ...
Regent Cinema, Ledsam Street, Ladywood
Publicity for the Regent Cinema in Ledsam Street, Ladywood, brings back the joys of 'continuous performance' when you could turn up when you liked and watch the programme through to the point where you ...
Regina Lodge, Perry Barr
Group photograph at Regina Lodge, Perry Hall, Perry Barr, on the occasion of the visit of Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement (with medals, second from left).
Released to Balsall Heath
Sapper 2144260 F. Whitehouse (born 1917) is released on 30th June 1946. He served with the Royal Engineers. Inside the record of war credits, Fred's Release Book shows he collected War Credits from Gooch ...
Removing the railings
Another view of the removal of the railings at St Philip's Cathedral during the Second World War. This was part of a national scheme towards the creation of munitions for the war effort.