The Old Yew Tree, Rocky Lane, Perry Barr by P Whitehouse
This photograph of the old yew tree in Rocky Lane was taken by P. Whitehouse. Rocky Lane is probably one of the most photographed roads in the area and there are many views of this spectacular tree.
The Olympia Cinema on Ladypool Road
The Olympia Ladypool Road originally known as the Ladypool Picture House. In the early days a 'picture house orchestra' played every evening. The name Olympia dates from 1916 when it closed for improvements ...
The opening of Grove Lane Public Baths
Grove Lane Baths were opened on Monday 28th January 1907 by Councillor John White of the Baths and Parks Committee. The design was by J P Osborne (F.R.I.B.A.)
The Oratory and Estate Office, Edgbaston
The buildings on the left in this Hagley Road scene form part of the Oratory and were originally the Oratory School. They were designed by Henry Clutton in a simple Italian Renaissance style in the early ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The low angle of this photograph gives some idea of the scale and richness of E. Doran Webb's building, completed in 1909. Interestingly, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Although the Oratory of St Philip Neri had been founded in 1852 by Cardinal Newman the church seen here was not built until 1903/09, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory Church, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The church, designed by E. Doran Webb, was built from 1903 to 1909 in memory of Cardinal Newman (who had died in 1890). ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Cardinal Newman, founder of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, came to Birmingham in 1849 and established the Oratory of St Philip Neri as a community ...
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Oratory in Hagley Road began as the English Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, founded by John Henry Newman in 1849. On moving to the Hagley Road site in 1852 Newman engaged Terence Flanagan ...
The Osler Street School magazine
The cover of 'Osmag', the magazine of Osler Street School, Ladywood, as it was in 1950, featuring a footballer who looks rather too beefy to be a pupil.
"Osmag" was the chronicle of Osler Street Secondary ...
The OSMAG March 1925
Front cover of the Osler Street Boys school magazine for March 1925.
The Palais De Danse - Sensation of the Midlands
This article was originally published in the "Brew 'Us Bugle" about the Palais De Danse in Ladywood.
On 20th December 1923 the Palais De Danse issued a souvenir of the third anniversary of the building. ...
The Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Although an inn had been on the site of the Plough and Harrow in Hagley Road since the 18th century a new building was designed by John Fallows in a Tudor Revival style and was erected in 1832. This is ...
The Pound, Handsworth
Handsworth Pound, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, 1908. In the background can be seen headstones in the churchyard of St Mary's.
The Pound, Handsworth
The Pound, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. In the background can be seen some of the headstones in the churchyard of St Mary's.
The Prince of Wales in Florence Street
In October 1932 the then Prince of Wales (later briefly Edward VIII) visited Birmingham and is here seen in Florence Street in a picture entitled 'Prince welcomed in the slums'. He is seen wearing a hat ...
The Pump Tavern - 236 Soho Road
The Queen Mother arriving at Nash House
View from Nash House as the Queen Mother arrives. She is leading the way in with the then Lord Mayor Ernest Apps. In the following group behind are some of the other dignitaries who accompanied her.