Local Schools
A series of pictures of local primary and secondary schools.
Lodge Corner, Handsworth
Lodge Corner, Handsworth, at the junction of Island and Sandwell Lanes, viewed from Sandwell Lane. 1906
Lodge Corner, Handsworth
Lodge Corner, Handsworth, at the junction of Island and Sandwell Lanes, from the grounds of the Lodge. 1906
Lodge Pool
Lodge Pool, Hamstead Hall, Hamstead. View of the pool in the lane leading to Hamstead Hall, by the side of Great Barr Station.
Lodge Road Mission Hall, Handsworth
Lodge Road Mission Hall, Handsworth, ca. 1900. Dating from 1895, it was built of red brick with stone details and included a reading room, library and refreshment room. In front of it stands a horse-drawn ...
Lodge Road, Handsworth
Lodge Road, Handsworth. The board at second-floor level on the right appears to reveal the presence of the shoe shop Freeman, Hardy & Willis. A boy with a hoop stands idly in the middle of the road to ...
Lodge to Browne's Green School, Handsworth
Lodge to Browne's Green School, Handsworth Wood Road, Handsworth
Lodge to the Friary, Handsworth
Lodge in Hawthorn Park, Friary Road, Handsworth, 1933. This is one of two lodges to the Friary, the other being also in Friary Road, facing the College Road junction.
Lodge, Sandwell Road, Handsworth
Lodge on the hill at the bottom of Sandwell Road, Handsworth. 1906
Lodge, Thornhill House
The Lodge House to Thornhill Road which was the house of Miss Anne Boulton, daughter of Matthew Boulton, built in 1826. In 1881 Thomas Wetherley, a 55 year-old gardener lived here with his wife and son....
London General Insurance Company
An advertisement for the London General Insurance Company Limited in the programme brochure of the Fancy Fair held at St James Church on the 20th November till 23rd November 1929. The company had offices ...
Longleat without water in 1969
Longleat Tower was cut off without water for two days in October 1969 following a burst water main. Residents had to obtain their water from a standpipe outside the tower block while repairs were made. ...
Looking across Attwood Green
This is the view from the staff kitchen at the new Optima offices on Bell Barn Road. Behind the trees in the foreground can be seen Moonlit Park.
Looking for Directions
Old signpost still standing at the island at Church Lane and College Road.
Looking towards Five Ways
In this photograph we are looking up Lee Bank Road (still not yet the Middleway)towards Five Ways. A crane can be seen in operation up at Five Ways if you look carefully. The wall to the right of the ...
Looking towards Hogarth House
Gwen Hatton and her sister Florence Lee posing for the camera outside Faraday House. In the background is Hogarth House. Hogarth House is probably named after the eighteenth century painter and lithographer ...
Lord Mayor James Crump retires
Article taken from the Birmingham Gazette. Text reads as follows:
"Presentation of a silver tea service to the retiring Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham Alderman and Mrs J. Crump was made in ...
Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Neville Chamberlain (1915-1917)
Arthur Neville Chamberlain first entered politics in 1911 when he was elected as a councillor to Birmingham City Council and immediately became Chair of the Town Planning Committee. Birmingham soon adopted ...