New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, looking down Sandwell Road.
Note walls covered with advertisements, including posters advertising Colman's Starch and El Destino cigars. From a photograph in ...
New Post Office at Perry Barr
Newscuttings reporting the moving of the Perry Barr Post Office to the corner of Willmore Road and Birchfield Road and at least one user's response to it!
From the G.H. Osborne collection of newscuttings....
Nineveh Road
Nineveh Road, near the Junction with Soho Road. This is a view of Court Number One.
Number 6 in Court 42, Grosvenor Street West
Early twentieth century view of Grosvenor Street West. It runs behind Broad Street up to Tescos and has much changed in a hundred years. Only the White Swan Public House and the wharf remain from this ...
Number 7 Court in Camden Grove
Another court terrace off Camden Street in Ladywood. A very evocative image from the early part of last century.
Number One, Back of Number Seven on Tennant Street
Taken in 1905 when Tennant Street included many back to back style houses. Today Tennant Street forms part of the perimeter of the Five Ways Estate which consists of blocks of flats - a very different ...
Number Six Court in Camden Grove
Undated photograph but probably from the early part of the twentieth century. Camden Grove lay off Camden Street. In the far distance is the local church and a group of people standig at the end of the ...
Old cottage on the Holyhead Road
Undated but early twentieth century.
Old Farmhouse, Holyhead Road
This image is taken from a photocopy of the original which is missing.
Oscott College, New Oscott
The college lodge, Oscott College, New Oscott
Oxhill Road and Rookery Road
The Oxhill Video Store photographed in 1996. Above the doorway are the worn details of a previous business on the site. Arthur Henry Diaper was a grocer and was apparently noted for his Danish butter ...
Parachute Queens
Three articles on the exploits of Lieutenant Lempriere. The main article concerns his "parachute queens" who regularly performed with him.
The names of those who worked with him are given as Cissie ...
Park Lane, Handsworth
Park Lane, Handsworth. A view of the site of the new Handsworth Cemetery in June 1908, the year before it opened.
Perry Barr Crematorium
Illustration from the Mercury of the newly opened crematorium.
Perry Barr Mystery - Child's Body in a Box
A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald reporting the discovery of the body of a baby in a cardboard box on the Aldridge Road. The child was not identified and was found to have been strangled.
From ...
Perry Barr trams
Newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Daily Mail, January 25th 1908.
This is one of a series of letters written to the local press at this time on the subject of journeys into Birmingham and the neccessity ...
Perry Hall
The home of Lord Calthorpe dates back from 1576 erected in the reign of Henry VIII by Sir Robert Stanford, Lord of the Manors of Perry barr and Handsworth