Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
Broadway Cinema
The West End Brewery owned by George Hemming & Sons stood at the corner of Wrentham Street in 1889. It was on this site in September 1911 that building began on a cinema. Designed by Harold Seymore Scott ...
Brownes Green House
This photograph dates to about 1879 when the house was being used as a school run by a Mr Wilson. It had a poor reputation so when Thomas Cockrane Lowe took it over he changed the name to Hamstead Hill ...
Browne's Green House
This house was probably built around 1800 although there had been a house on the site before that. James Chance the glass manufacturer lived here in the 1850s.
The house was demolished around 1900 ...
Brownes Green Lodge
The Lodge is still standing at the time of writing. There was originally also a house on the site but this was demolished in 1900, although the ice-house survived till 1951. One famous visitor was Oliver ...
Brownes Green Lodge
This view of the Lodge dates from about 1900 when it still had a thatched roof. The thatch was replaced in 1949. Browne's Green House itself had been demolished around the time this photograph was taken, ...
Brownes Green Lodge
This photograph of Browne's Green Lodge shows Miss Allen who lived there and sold sweets to the children at Browne's Green School. The lodge still stands today. Browne's Green House was demolished around ...
Brownes Green Lodge
About 1870 The Lodge was built in 1810 and added to the Statutory List of the Department of the Environment as having special architectural or historic interest.
Browne's Green Lodge by E.R. Madeley
This painting of Browne's Green Lodge by E.R. Madeley shows it with a thatched roof. The thatch was replaced in 1949. The lodge still stands today.
Browne's Green House itself had been demolished around ...
Brownes Green: Keeper's Cottage
Brownes Green house was demolished at the end of the nineteenth century. It was built towards the end of the eighteenth century by Nathaniel Clarke and stood to the rear of a triangle with Handsworth ...
Brunswick Road
Corner of White Street and Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath before demolition
Brunswick Road
Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath during demolition in the 1970's
BSA advert from The Oratory church magazine
An advert for BSA's pushbikes and motorbikes as sold by The County Cycle Company who were based at 307 Broad Street. The advert tells us that a racing bike could be had for £8 5s. Roadsters were more ...
Building St Thomas's School
Two pupils of St Thomas's School on Granville Street photographed watching construction of the new school on Great Colmore Street.
Building the Duck Pond
Here we see the building of a duck pond at Balsall Heath City Farm, Malvern Street. The farm was the first building on the site created when the area underwent redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s. It ...
Building The Kingstanding Estate
‘CITY’S NEW SUBURB
MAKING THE DESERT BLOOM
DEVELOPMENT OF PERRY BARR ON MODERN LINES’
Headlines in the Birmingham News for 21st April 1928.
As early as 1913 an inquiry ...
Building the new Central Library
A view of the scaffolding around the new Library as it was being built. The two concrete pillars to the left and right of the picture are part of the Library structure. Intriguingly the picture also manages ...