Guinea Gardens
This charming chair and shed are on one of the Guinea Gardens plots in Westbourne Road near the Botanical Gardens. In the distant past the gardens swept all the way across Edgbaston to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
The main gates to the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road in Edgbaston. The guinea gardens used to run all the way across to Holloway Head near the city centre but today the last of the gardens can be ...
Gwen Hatton and Emily Hancox
Taken some years after the move to Faraday House. Gwen and Emily are photographed by the flower beds outside the block.
Gwen Hatton and family
Left to right are: Gwen Hatton, Doris (sister), Stan Hancox (brother-in-law), Emily Morton (mother), and Gladys (sister).
The background shows a nice view of the old shops which were eventually demolished, ...
Haddon Tower - Angela Maloney
Haddon Tower rises in the background. This block of flats is set to be demolished in Summer 2006 as part of the urban regeneration of Lee Bank.
Haddon Tower Poppies - Angela Maloney
Wild Poppies to the rear of Haddon Tower on Bristol Street.
Hagley Road
a trolley bus moving along Hagley Road early in the twentieth century.
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from an early postcard. The view is looking eastwards towards the city at a time when the amount of traffic was rather a contrast to the scene today. Just beyond the shops is the ...
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
An early postcard view of Hagley Road, Edgbaston. If the building with the chimneys behind the trees is indeed the Plough & Harrow Hotel the camera is looking westwards. A variety of horse-drawn traffic ...
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
View of Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking eastwards towards the city centre. The building on the left is the Plough and Harrow Hotel, on the corner of Plough and Harrow Road. The view must date from around ...
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a tinted postcard dating from the later 19th century. The scene is possibly the junction of Plough & Harrow Road and Highfield Road, looking towards the city. Curiously the ...
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Hagley Road, Edgbaston, seen in postcard view in 1903. The location is the Ivy Bush, looking eastwards towards the city centre. However, the destination on the front of the bus reads 'New Street', an ...
Hanson Map of Holloway Head area in 1778
This is a detailed section of the map. Most of the area shown is filled with the orchards and fields which lined the route from Bath Row down into Holloway Head. Note that the very end of the route into ...
Harborne Branch Line: Withdrawal of passenger train service
Poster advertising the withdrawal of the service after Saturday November 24th 1934.
Stations listed as being affected are Harborne, Hagley Road and Rotton Park Road Stations.
Harry and Arthur Sadler on William Street
The young Sadler brothers are pictured here outside their home on William Street. The Sadler family had no connection with Islington Motors, whose van they are posing next to. The company were based on ...
Herbert Green returns to St Thomas' School
Some ten years after the closure was announced St Thomas' Primary School finally closed its doors for the last time on 20th July. The school was replaced in effect by two new schools - Lea Mason Secondary ...
Hill Street, Birmingham
In this view up Hill Street, Birmingham, the Golden Eagle public house is prominent in the middle distance, with a glimpse of the Town Hall behind it. The photograph rather fails to bring out the startling ...
HM The Queen Mother visits Lee Bank
Front cover of the official brochure for the Queen Mother's visit to the Y-Blocks - Nash House in particular.