George Road ARP Shelter
The fuse box inside the underground shelter. The shelter has not been used since World War II but is still there underneath the George Road flats and retains some of the fixtures and fittings. The fuse ...
Gillott Road during the Blitz
Although German bonbing targetted factories and the like during the Blitz, many houses were also hit. Raids were usually at night and each morning after meant dealing with scenes like this.
Girls Talk
Photographed on the grass on Lee Bank Road.
Gough Road - by Year Five at Woodview
This is one of the Victorian houses to have survived on Gough Road. the one end of the road (nearest to Lee Bank Middleway)was slightly re-routed and changed to become Woodview Drive. The other end is ...
Gough Road - by Year Five at Woodview School
This house was photographed on our walking tour of the area around Woodview Primary School. The house is the cream building to the left but what was of interest was the red brick buidling to the right ...
Grand Junction, Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
The Grand Junction public house was at 180 Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, where it joins Bell Barn Road. The acute angle of the junction makes for a building of unusual shape, with an unusual name. This ...
Grant Street, Lee Bank
Nineteenth-century housing in Grant Street, Lee Bank. The photograph was taken on 6th July 1948, when the area was on the brink of redevelopment. The City of Birmingham set up five Comprehensive Redevelopment ...
Grant Street, Lee Bank
Destruction in Grant Street, Lee Bank, caused by enemy action on 19th November 1940. 80 houses were demolished and 200 others badly damaged. Five people were killed and A.R.P. Warden Henry Pickering was ...
Gravestone in the Jewish Cemetery
The disused cemetery stands next to the railway line which at one time threatened the site. The walls of the cemtetery have a slight historical interest as there is now so little in the immediate area ...
Great Colmore Street
Undated photograph of Great Colmore Street. The children are in Victorian/ Edwardian costume so it is probably early twentieth century. The snow on the ground suggests it is Winter. As to which section ...
Great Colmore Street
The centre of the photograph is the Great Colmore Garage which was owned by Leonard Allen. Next door is the shop owned by James Hayward. The car parked next to the shop is on Clifton Grove. Today this ...
Great Colmore Street
Great Colmore Street in April 1970. The two figures look rather desolate in these surroundings, but behind them the tower of St Thomas' Church still stands proudly, having survived both World War II and ...
Great Colmore Street
Picture probably taken not too long before demolition of the street. Some curtains are still visible in the houses nearest the photographer so perhaps some people were still in residence. Sadly no numbers ...
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Redevelopment was well advanced when this photograph was taken in Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, presumably in the 1960s. Tower blocks and great sweeps of grass have replaced the streets of Victorian ...
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Houses in Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 7 March 1965 when demolition was not far off. The entire district, as a designated redevelopment area, underwent massive change from the 1950s ...
Ground excavation
Excavation and clearance for the new park area off Bell Barn Road. Part of the Crest Nicholson development of Attwood Green.
Guinea Gardens
View in one of the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road. These gardens along with farms and orchards spread across this area to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
Garden shed at the Guinea Gardens in Westbourne Road near the Botanical Gardens. The Guinea Gardens originally occupied land from here across to Holloway Head in Edgbaston.