Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane
Taken sometime around the early years of the twentieth century.
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane
Group photograph of some of the farm labourers. Why the violins have been brought out is a mystery! In the background can also be seen a signal box on the railway line passing through Handsworth.
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane, Handsworth
Lea Hall farm dated back to at least 1582 but the last farmhouse was there from about 1800. The "pink cottage" building was the one known as Lea Hall Farm and was said to be the oldest in Handsworth. ...
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane, Handsworth
Lea Hall, Handsworth
Lea Hall, Wood Lane, Handsworth. A 16th-century house stood on this site but the present building was erected by John Spencer in 1795. It has been the home of the Muntz and Willmott families among others, ...
Lea Mason Secondary School
View from Hogarth House of Lea mason Secondary School. This was closed down and is today the St Thomas Centre including the James Brindley School. To the left of the school is Bell Barn Road with the ...
Leading a Horse on the Farm - Canada
Here we see one of the young emigrées working on the farm. John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable concern. ...
Lease of a messuage with appurtenances in Handsworth
Lease for ninety nine years from Charles Stanford of the parish of Hansworth [Handsworth] esq., to Anne Spurryer, spinster, daughter of Thomas Spurrier of the said parish, deceased, of a messuage with ...
Lecture at St Asaph's Church 1893
Promotional card for a lecture at St Asaph's Parochial Hall. The lecture was by Luke J. Sharp on his "Trip To America" and cost one shilling to hear! In today's money the cost would be about £3.50.
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Ledsam Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following road on this page: Lea Hill Road, Lea House Road, Leach Street, Leach Green Lane, Leamington Road, Lease Lane, Leasowes Road, Leavesdon Grove.
Ledsam Street and Lee Bank Road in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following road: Lee Crescent, Lee Mount, Leek Street, Lees Street, Legge Lane, Legge Street.
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Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
"Head-master White distributes the prizes". This satirical cartoon is from The Dart and comments on the giving out of awards to the police following the arrest of those accused. The press seemed to take ...
Ledsam Street in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Also includes the following roads: Lea Hill Road, Lea House Road, Leach Street, Leach Green Lane, Leamington Road, Lease Lane, Leasowes Road, Leavesdon Grove.
Part two of Ledsam Street is on another ...
Lee Bank
This image shows the rundown state of Lee Bank in 1999 just before the transfer of the area's housing to Optima Community Association. Since then the area has been, and still is being, substantially renovated. ...
Lee Bank
The picture was taken at the corner of Rickman Drive and Grant Street in 1999. The foreground area, looking for all the world like a bombsite, is in fact a washing area. It was conditions such as this ...
Lee Bank
Conditions in Lee Bank in the nineties had become so bad that residents launched a campaign to get something done.