Royal Warwickshire Regiment - World War One
A collection of images from the website relating to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in World War One. Due to the nature of local recruitment many of the men were from Birmingham and this exhibition concentrates ...
Royal Warwickshire Volunteers
This picture is of the Royal Warwickshire Volunteers during the First World War. The photograph is dated 1914. It has been has pointed out that: "the vague semblance of military uniforms the men (as opposed ...
Runcorn Road
Bomb damage off Runcorn Road, Balsall Heath. World War two
Save kitchen waste to feed the pigs!
Wartime poster produced to encourage saving of kitchen waste to feed pigs. The poster was produced by the HMSO (Her Majesty's Stationery Office) and is number SP52. These posters were common sights around ...
Selwyn and Gillot Road
Junction of Selwyn ang Gillot Road during the Blitz. It would seem likely that this was a mistaken target or one of the cases where bombs were offloaded on the return flight home.
Selwyn Road in the blitz
The sign says "road under repair". It is hard to tell which section of Selwyn Road this is but it may be the turn off into Wheatsheaf Road or Hannafore Road.
Servicemen's Club on Easy Row
Easy Row now only exists in name near to the Copthorne Hotel. This article from 1945 covers the opening of the Servicemen's Club - able to sleep 46 and bed and breakfast costing only 1s 3d.
Sleeping area in a public air-raid shelter
This room would have had long bunk bed style beds in it and was capable of holding many people during an air-raid. Note the grill on the left hand wall for ventilation and the supproting iron beam in ...
Soho Road Blitz damage
Bomb damaged shops during the air-raids of 1942. The photograph covers the buildings between numbers 216 down to 192. At that time left to right they were: Pearks Dairies, The National Provincial Bank ...
Soho Road Blitz damage
Bomb damaged shops during the air-raids of 1942. To the left of the photograph is the National Provincial Bank - then managed by C S Parker. The bank was number 214 Soho Road. The devastated building ...
Somewhere in Hunland
Sunday Mercury article about Birmingham men being held prisoner by the Germans during the First World War. The men pictured are all in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The original image was sent by Private ...
South African War Veterans
A reunion at the Palais De Danse of veterans of the Boer War. The man standing to the centre of the foreground group is Colonel L.J.A. Gay. The last British survivor of the Boer War was George Frederick ...
St James' Church, Handsworth
German prisoners of war search for suspected unexploded bombs in St James' churchyard, Handsworth
St Mary's Church, Handsworth
Brass War Memorial plaque in St Mary's Church, Handsworth, commemorating those who died in the First World War
Standard bearer party for the Alfred Knight Way official ceremony
The guests for the ceremony were received for a brief service in Sunset Park where this impressive group of ten ex-service personnel waited for them. Knight won the Victoria Cross in 1917 at Ypres and ...
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 ...
The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment go back to Sutton Park
Report from the Birmingham Post about the reunion of the 15th Battalion Royal Warwicks who were raised as the Second Birmingham "Pals" Regiment in 1914. The battalion underwent basic training at Sutton ...
The 15th Battalion veterans back at Sutton Park
Closeup view of the Royal Warwickshire veterans at Sutton Park in 1964.
Chairman R.A. Pritchard is the man to the right of the photograph. The other men in the photograph are not named but are probably ...