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Ships from the Adriatic at Venice - Joseph Southall

This painting by Joseph Southall is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It was presented to them by Anne Elizabeth Southall in 1945. The Gallery note that: "Southall's brilliant draughtsmanship ...

Shovelbottoms Ltd

They had premises elsewhere too but this is their site on the corner of Ladypool and Taunton Road in the mid 1940's. In the foreground is a range of BSA motor cycles with sidecars. Dougie Dulson recalls: ...

Soho Foundry, Handsworth

The old office of Boulton & Watt close to the original gates of Soho Foundry, Handsworth. The greater part of offices had to be pulled down c.1930, but the bay window front and its surrounding structure ...

Soho Road Blitz damage

Bomb damaged shops during the air-raids of 1942. The photograph covers the buildings between numbers 216 down to 192. At that time left to right they were: Pearks Dairies, The National Provincial Bank ...

Soho Road Blitz damage

Bomb damaged shops during the air-raids of 1942. To the left of the photograph is the National Provincial Bank - then managed by C S Parker. The bank was number 214 Soho Road. The devastated building ...

Special Lantern Lecture at Kent Street Baths

This talk given by the Friends of The Soviet Union was on Soviet Planning. Wiliam Paul was also looking at Britain's distressed areas; on wonders if he included the area across the road which twenty to ...

St Asaph's Bazaar

Programme for 1893 Church Bazaar. This states that the parish consists of 11,000 people. Mentioned on the leaflet are the following people: A.J.Binnie (the Vicar), A.P. Roberts (Curate), T.H. Birks (Curate), ...

St Asaph's Church

St Asaph's Church stood at the junction of Great Colmore Street and Latimer Street. This would be just about where Lytham Croft meets Great Colmore Street today. It was built in 1869 to a design by Yeoville ...

St Augustine's RC Church

St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church was opened on July 28th 1939. The first priest was Father Moore. It had seating for 400 parishioners and has a 70ft high tower which features a statue of St Augustine ...

St Augustine's RC Church

St Augustine's Roman Catholic Church was opened on July 28th 1939. The first priest was Father Moore. It had seating for 400 parishioners and has a 70ft high tower which features a statue of St Augustine ...

St Germain's Church, City Road, Edgbaston

St Germain's Church, Edgbaston, on the corner of City Road and Portland Road. Designed by E.F. Reynolds in a Romanesque style, the church was built between 1915 and 1917. The brick-built church is seen ...

St James' Church, Edgbaston

View of the interior of St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the west end with its gallery. This and other photographs taken in 1941 suggest that the church with its high window ...

St James' Church, Edgbaston

An interior view of St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston. The 1941 photograph was taken from the gallery at the west end of the building, looking towards the chancel.

St James' Church, Edgbaston

St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston, showing the north transept of S.S. Teulon's church.

St James' Church, Edgbaston

St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston. This view of the south porch brings out the way the low eaves resulted in a large expanse of tiled roof, leaving room for a dormer window. Teulon's 1852 design ...

St James' Church, Edgbaston

St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston. One of several photographs taken late in 1941, this shows a corner of Teulon's High Victorian Gothic Revival style building from the south west.

St James' Church, Edgbaston

An interior view of St James' Church in Elvetham Road, Edgbaston, looking south-westward from the chancel into the south transept.

St James' Church, Edgbaston

St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston, seen from the south. Designed by S.S. Teulon in the Decorated style, it was built in 1852 using pink sandstone. Since the photograph was taken in late 1941 ...