Fixture list for Handsworth Wood Cricket Club, 1899 second page
Handsworth Wood Cricket Club played on a ground at Brownes Green. Their colours were dark maroon with letters worked in yellow.
Fixture list for Handsworth Wood Cricket Club, 1899, third page
Handsworth Wood Cricket Club played on a ground at Brownes Green. Their colours were dark maroon with letters worked in yellow.
Floriate design by C.J. Phillp
The image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was born in ...
Floriate design by John Phillp
This pencil sketch is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was ...
Fog in Perry Barr 1897
A newpaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, December 27 1897.
This article recounts the story of a man attempting to travel from Snow Hill to Perry Barr during thick fog.
Because of the poor visibility ...
Foliate design by John Phillp
This pen and ink design with wash is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Foliate design by John Phillp
This pencil and crayon design is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Foliate design by John Phillp
This pen and ink design is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Follett Osler family grave at Key Hill Cemetery
Osler Street is named after the family buried at this grave at the General Cemetery - known as Key Hill.
Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903) built up the family glass firm, which in 1851 took prime position ...
Forging plate used by William Booth
This plate was used by the notorious forger William Booth and was found in a ploughed field on Booth's Farm in 1865. An example of a bank note produced by a plate like this is also available on the site....
Fortune Telling at Handsworth.
A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail" 30th March 1900.
This cutting refers to a "gipsy" Carolina Smith, who lived on the Black Patch, being fined for fortune telling.
Taken from the G.H. ...
Found Drowned
This newscutting reports on the inquest following the death of eighteen year old James Coope. Coope had lived with his aunt and uncle in Livingston Road, had argued with them and had his ears boxed. ...
Fowl Stealing at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 29th January 1887. A short article which gives details of a case heard at West Bromwich Police Court in which two labourers, John Crockett and Walter ...
Francis Canon Hopkins
Full biography of Canon Hopkins, also available as a downloadable file.
The honour which the Chapter of St. Chad’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham, have just conferred upon Father Hopkins, of ...
Francis Road
View of Francis Road in the Victorian/ Edwardian era. Francis Road lies near Five Ways behind the old Children's Hospital.
Front and side elevation of a vase handle by John Phillp
This image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). The pencil inscription reads 'Executed in silver JP int 1806'
Phillp may have been Matthew ...
G.E. Wootton
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download.
Few men are more closely linked with the Handsworth of the past 30 years or so ...
General Calthorpe outside Perry Hall
Perry Hall, Staffordshire. The Honorable General Somerset Calthorpe in Carriage.
The following is a biography of Calthorpe taken from the Handsworth Magazine in November 1899.
Lieutenant General ...