Railings outside St James's Church - by Year Five at Woodview
This building used to be St James's church. It is apartments now. People are going to live in there.
Railway Line at back of houses
Taken in November 1981
Rainbow from Edmonton House - Angela Maloney
Edmonton House is on the Benmore Estate between Pershore and Bristol Road.
Ratcliff Place
This photograph was taken during the great freeze of 1946/1947. The view is in Ratcliff Place next to the Town Hall looking into Victoria Square. The old Central Library used to be located in Ratcliff ...
Ratepayers bestir yourselves
A handbill announcing a public meeting at the Perry Barr Institute on Wednesday May 1st 1907.
The main issue to be discussed at this meeting was the provision of a through service on the trams from Handsworth ...
Rats: Wartime Poster
Published by the Austin Motor Company Safety and Welfare Department. Many posters were published during WW2 for public information. This warning about keeping shelters tidy is one of the less commonly ...
Raymond Mason in the Bull Ring
Raymond Mason grew up in Wheeley's Lane and arguably became Birmingham's foremost artist and sculptor. This rare cutting from the Second World War era shows him at work in the Bull Ring sketching the ...
Reading For Miss
This is one of the few Vanley Burke photographs with a title. Taken at Grove Lane Junior and Infant School, Handsworth in the 1970's.
Reakes Music Ltd
Reakes Music Ltd were located at 11 Suffolk Street, Queensway, Birmingham. This 1970's advert was published in the St Luke's Church magazine. St Luke's being located on Bristol Street opposite McDonalds ...
Rear of Brookfields School
Another image of Brookfields school taken after it was hit during an air raid in 1941. this appears to show what is left of one of the upstairs classrooms; a plaque is clearly visible on one of the walls. ...
Rear of Brookfields School in the blitz
This image of Brookfields school was taken after it was hit during an air raid in 1941. The school is also known as Ellen Street School as it stood on the corner of Ellen and Pitsford Street. The school ...
Rear of Edward Street
The Lyric Picture House (just visible at the end of the line of the terrace) was in Edward Street. It had previously been a church building! The end for the Lyric came when the immediate area was demolished ...
Rear of houses in Wenman Street
Around the age 15 and 16 years, Keith Whitehouse went to St Martin’s Youth Club in Sherlock Street. “A whole gang of us from Balsall Heath went there, that community feeling spread across from Balsall ...
Rear of Number 14 Florence Street
A resident in the backyards of Florence Street. Visible are the wash tubs and wash houses. This image was used as evidence supporting the need to do something about conditions in the back to backs in ...
Rear of numbers 259 and 260 Great Colmore Street
These houses would have stood at the Bristol Street end of Great Colmore Street. Through the entry can be seen Great Colmore Street itself.
Rear of Shakespeare Road
Taken in 1968 before urban renewal of the area.
Reaside Nursery
The nursery is to the left of the picture which is of Hope Street. This is part of the substantial redevelopment of the Bristol Street/ Lee Bank area. The nursery has now relocated to the St Thomas Centre ...
Rebecca Brookes, The Well Concert, Symphony Hall, 2002
Rebecca, one of the finest young praise and worship leaders in the Midlands is based at the Pentecostal Church in Stuart Street, Nechells. The singing technique used by gospel singers varies widely, ...