Marroway Street, Ladywood
Terraces of houses off Marroway Street, Ladywood, in a photograph taken in 1968. Marroway Street, between Icknield Port Road and Northbrook Street, has several terraces of this sort.
Mary Anne Boulton (nee Wilkinson)
This miniature showns Mary Anne Wilkinson as a young girl. She was the daughter of William Wilkinson and the niece of John Wilkinson, the ironmaster.
She married Matthew Robinson Boulton, the son of ...
Mary Jane, Ernest and Sydney S
Mary Jane, Ernest, and Sydney S before and after they were "received into the homes". John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in ...
Mary Street
Terraced housing on Mary Street featuring some stylish decorative brick work around the windows and doors.
Mary Street
The rear yard area of number 73 Mary Street. This was taken during the period of urban renewal when some were still living in housing which had been earmarked for demolition.
Mary Street
The 2010 site of the original 144 Mary Street once the home of the Bartley Family. Balsall Heath Church Centre on the right of the photo, is situated at the corner of Mary Street and Edward Road. Sections ...
Mary Street
This photo features Sonny seated on Andy’s rigid framed ex-WD bike, along with daughter May. Here we have a shot straight down the entry leading to their back entrance and yard. These ‘Entries` were, ...
Mary Street School
Mary Street School, which opened in 1878, was the first Board school to be built in Balsall Heath. It was renamed Belgrave School in the 1960s. The school closed in 1970, the buildings were demolished ...
Mary Street School Road Safety Certificate
Produced by the Birmingham Accident Prevention Council. This Certificate of Merit was awarded to Keith Whitehouse. It was signed by the Lord Mayor of the time, Ernest Walter Horton.
Mary Street School/ Belgrave Primary Staff
The staff of Mary Street / Belgrave Primary; Front row L to R; Jean Kent, unknown, unknown, Mr Mundy (Head), Mrs Wildebore (Deputy Head), unknown, Pauline Davis, and Mrs Elder.
“Mr Mundy was a helpful ...
Mary Street Schooldays
Keith Whitehouse (left) and sister Pamela (right) attended the ‘Girls’ Boys’ and 'Infants schools’ in Mary Street. Later the school came to be known as ‘Belgrave Primary’.
Keith was there between 1959 ...
Mary Street Tram Terminus
Elizabeth McKeon (nee Bartley)has fond memories of the street bonfires in Balsall Heath. "About a month before bonfire night we kids in the street collected the materials for a ‘street bonfire’. The ‘gang`, ...
Maryvale Convent, Old Oscott
Interior of the chapel, Maryvale Convent, Old Oscott, from a postcard
Masonic Lodge on Severn Street
This grade A listed building stands opposite the Mailbox retail development. Prior to being a Lodge it was used as a Synagogue.
MASU Centre
The Midland Adult School Union Centre which formerly stood on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street. In recent years it was taken over by Optima Community Association and was used as the local Community Centre. ...
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton, the son of a silver-stamper, was born in Birmingham in 1728. After the death of his father, Boulton purchased a piece of barren heath at nearby Soho, and opened a much larger coin-making ...
Matthew Boulton by JSC Schaak
This portrait of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) in his court dress was painted by the artist JSC Schaak when Boulton was aged 42. A bill for two portraits by Schaak survives ...
Matthew Boulton by L.F. Abbott
This oil painting of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton by L.F. Abbott hangs in the Entrance Hall in Boulton's former home Soho House. It was painted in 1801 when Boulton was 73. At this ...