Old and modern signs on Ladypool Road
The idea of advertising your business by painting on the wall has largely gone out of fasion due to modern alternatives in design. Here we see two surviving examples from different eras on the side of ...
Old and New
Faraday House and to the right Hogarth House. In the middle distance is Wilkes Greengrocers and the road leading off up the hill is Pigott Street. Just to the right and behind Hogarth House would be Chatsworth ...
Old cottage on the Holyhead Road
Undated but early twentieth century.
Old Cottage, Hamstead Hall Road
Old Cottages on Church Lane
The old cottages stood opposite Lea Bridge House on Church Lane. The Lane was originally a bridle path leading to St Mary's Church and used to be known as Field Lane.
Old Cottages on Handsworth Wood Road
Handsworth Wood Road was turnpiked in 1787 and several cottages stood on the road. It is uncertain which cottages these are.
Old Crick Lane, Handsworth
Old Crick Lane, Handsworth, c1910. In the background the new Handsworth Grammar School for girls is being built. Old Crick Lane disappeared when Rose Hill Road was laid out and was incorporated into adjoining ...
Old Crown & Cushion public house, Perry Barr
The Old Crown & Cushion Public House, on the corner of Birchfield Road and Wellington Road, Perry Barr, in April 1959.
Old Crown & Cushion, Perry Barr
The Old Crown & Cushion Public House on the corner of Birchfield Road and Wellington Road.
Old Farmhouse, Holyhead Road
This image is taken from a photocopy of the original which is missing.
Old friends
Beatrice Burton, Maurice Burton, Jimmy Phillips and Sylvie Shaw. The location is long forgotten but these four were photographed together sometime in the late 1960s. The Burtons ans Sylvie are known to ...
Old Handsworth Church by Allen Edward Everitt
Everitt (1824-1882) was a prolific Birmingham artist and antiquarian whose watercolours and drawings are an important visual record of the historic architecture of the West Midlands. He lived for much ...
Old House, Park Road. May 30th 1968
Old Moseley Arms Public House
Old Moseley Arms Public House Homer Street centenary mural 1987
Old oak tree at the corner of Church Lane, Perry Barr
Perry Church in the background
Watercolour by George Warren Blackham Nationality British
Active 1870- 1900
George Warren Blackham was a watercolourist who painted views of late nineteenth century ...
Old Perry from the Aldridge Road by William Nicholls
William Nicholls was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited 21 works at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1875 and 1889. His works included landscapes, rural and town scenes.
Old police station, Perry Barr
The old police station, Perry Barr. Situated near Birchfield Library, the building was removed in the early 1950s when the road was widened.