Midland Adult School Union on Severn Street
By 1960 this building subsequently became home to the Birmingham Athletic Insitute. Today in 2004 it is boarded up with an uncertain future.
Midland Bank on Ladypool Road
Midland Bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham in August 1836. It expanded in the Midlands, absorbing many local banks, and merged with the Central Bank of London ...
Midland Vietnamese Community Association
The Midlands Vietnamese Community Association (MVCA) is the principal Vietnamese community organisation in Birmingham. Throughout its 18-year existence it has sought to promote and advance the interests ...
Mighty Diamonds, Jamaican Vocalists
"Mighty Diamonds on Soho Hill, Handsworth. The group are a vocal harmony trio from Jamaica, consisting of, Donald 'Tabby' Shaw, Fitzroy 'Bunny' Simpson and Lloyd 'Judge' Ferguson. Formed in 1969, they ...
Mike Jones interview
Mike Jones was born in Birmingham in 1926. Both his parents were both deaf and mute and, with no Welfare State to support them, life was a great struggle. His account of his childhood gives a vivid picture ...
Milestone
A milestone on Holyhead Road. Grade 2 listed street furniture. Dating back to around 1800, it shows a distance of 111 miles from London to Birmingham, 3 miles to Birmingham and 10 miles to Wolverhampton. ...
Milestone Lane
Undated photograph of Milestone Lane. It probably dates from the 1960's to 1970's. Milestone Lane is a small cul-de-sac lying off Holyhead Road.
Milestone, Holyhead Road, Handsworth
Milestone in Holyhead Road, Handsworth, probably of late 18th-century date and erected to comply with the General Turnpike Act of 1766. The distances shown, '111 miles from London, 3 from Birmingham', ...
Milk Float in Handsworth
A horse-drawn milk float from the Island Road dairy. The float is number 29. The photograph probably dates from the years up to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Milkman's walkover in a novel Birmingham race
A novel race took place at Winson Green on Tuesday afternoon between a milkman and a a greengrocer, who were to push their carts from the Plough and Harrow Inn, Bacchus Road to the Art Gallery and back ...
Mine Fire At Hamstead Colliery
A postcard issued to commemorate the victims and heroes associated with the 1908 disaster at Hamstead Colliery.
The victims were:
Abner Williamson (44), Headingley Road, Handsworth
Ernest Jones ...
Ministry of Health Poster - Coughs And Sneezes...
This poster was put up in surgeries and hospitals across the Birmingham area. The slogan achieved fame and immortality when it featured in "The Blood Donor" an episode of Hancock's Half Hour starring ...
'Miranda'
Photograph by Ruth Handley, nd. Process: bromesko
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited ...
Miss Dodds and class at St Thomas's School in 1954
Several children have been named on this picture. (Front Row) Second left in glasses is Mike Davis, third left and centre is Jeff Wedgwood. (Second Row) First left in square patterned jumper is John Patton. ...
Miss Edwards and her class at St Thomas's School
Several of the children on this photograph have been identified. (Front Row)first left is Paul Smith, second left is Ronnie Cotterill, fourth left is John Abbot. (Second Row) second left is David Wakelam, ...
Miss Ford's Room at St. Thomas's School
Miss Ford's class looking attentively at presumably Miss Ford and/or the photographer. This classroom was at St. Thomas's School on Bath Row/ Granville Street in the Edgbaston area. During the redevelopment ...
Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, Smethwick
Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, Cape Hill. The view is from a tinted postcard produced by Mitchells & Butlers themselves, which on the back bears their slogan "Good honest beer".
Henry Mitchell was the ...
Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, Smethwick
Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, Cape Hill. A view of one of the malting floors.