The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper, sold by Morgan and Viggers Ltd of 81-85 Soho Road, Handsworth. Dated 1st March 1928.
Original pamphlet scanned from item in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, ...
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper
The Ewbank Carpet Sweeper, sold by Morgan and Viggers Ltd of 81-85 Soho Road, Handsworth. Dated 1st March 1928.
Original pamphlet scanned from item in Local Studies and History Department, Central Library, ...
The first motorcycle in Handsworth Wood
Leonard Davies of 11 Himstock Road in 1902. The cycle was built by Milbrowe Smith, a motor car builder who lived at 239 Soho Road.
The folly on Waterworks Road
Beautiful snowy view of the Folly.
The former Clifton Infant School, Hertford Street.
St. Paul's Community Foundation School took over the buildings in 1973.
The Friar Tuck
Themed Food stand
The Friary
The Friary and Lodge stood on Friary Road. The Friary was built in 1658 and demolished in 1937 as part of the Grestone development. The black and white half timbered effect was added sometime after 1906.
Occupants ...
The Friary, Friary Road
This photograph is a rear view of the Friary, taken in 1937, shortly before the house was demolished. The building and its lands, including the four acre paddock at the front of the house, were sold and ...
The Future Edgbaston
A newspaper cutting from the "Weekly Mercury", January 26th 1907.
This article reports on an interview with Councillor Fred Lempriere of the District council about Birmingham's proposed scheme to ...
The Future of the Community
Vietnamese boys outside the MVCA offices in Charleville Road.
The Future of the Community
The youngest attendee at MVCA Annual General Meeting!
The Future of the Community
Vietnamese children on a day trip.
The Gables Hall, Handsworth
Interior view of the Gables Hall, Finch Road, Handsworth. The building was registered for public worship in 1936.
The Gala
Famously known as The Broadway Cinema for most of its life it was in the seventies known as The Cinephone and in the eighties as The Gala. Showing on this day was "Bambi", probably one of the summer re-runs ...
The gardens at the Middleway Blocks
This photograph was taken by resident May Williams. The four blocks, Hogarth, Faraday, Audleigh and Chiswick are still there today. Much of the surrounding development from the fifties and sixties has ...
'The Girl in the Black Lace Mantilla'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: plastika.
Exhibition labels on reverse: 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. Selected and Hung [at the] Exhibition of Midland Photography, 1952' and 'Birkenhead ...
The Golden Goose 1984
"My first one, possibly, was when I was in the Youth Theatre and we did a play called The Golden Goose and we turned that into a float. I didn’t do much more than jump on the float and have a fun time." ...
The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist born in Rann Street, Ladywood. He is most remembered for his series of novels ...