Neville Chamberlain at the Town Hall
Neville Chamberlain speeking at Birmingham Town Hall. The photograph is dated as 1938 but in fact it has to date from September 1939 onwards. Chamberlain appointed Winston Churchill as First Lord Of The ...
Neville Chamberlain: Ladywood election poster
1923 poster for Neville Chamberlain who represented the constituency at evey General Election from 1918 to 1924. At the 1924 election he narrowly won for the Unionists by 77 votes over the Labour candidate ...
New classroom at Lee Bank Primary School
Promotional picture taken for the brochure for the newly opened Lee Bank Primary School.
New Draper's shop in Perry Barr
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing the arrival of a new draper's shop in Perry Barr. J.T. Bowers of High Street, Aston were opening a branch six doors from Perry Barr station.
From the ...
New Era on Lee Bank Middleway
Faraday and Hogarth House on Lee Bank Middleway during the urban renewal. To the right Chiswick House can be seen still under construction. Also some of the old housing on Lee Bank Road (as it was) is ...
New home
There were big differences between living in Edward Street and Faraday House. Both Gwen Hatton and her mother Emily Morton (seen here together) had grown up in the world of back to back housing with outside ...
New Hope Close off Rickman Drive
One of the first developments after the stock transfer which led to Optima COmmunity Association being formed. New Hope Close (a symbolic name) is located off Rickman Drive. Since it was built Rickman ...
New Inns
The New Inns Pub was converted into flats, alongside new houses built in 1994, preserving the original character of the old pub. At the rear of the pub, more houses have been built. They are made up of ...
New Inns
The old New Inns hotel on the Soho Road.
New Inns Cablecar
Tram outside the New Inns on Holyhead Road. The advert on the front are for two local firms "Reppingtons" and "Hurds" who sold poultry and game etc.
New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, looking down Sandwell Road.
Note walls covered with advertisements, including posters advertising Colman's Starch and El Destino cigars. From a photograph in ...
New Inns Public House
The New Inns is situated at 44 Holyhead Road and dates back in it's present form to 1798. Apart from being a publc house it also catered for banqueting and even had a ballroom. The original inn dated ...
New Inns, 42 Holyhead Road
A public house has been on this site at least since the 18th century. Parts of it were rebuilt in 1885 and 1901, and a banqueting hall, the Prince's Suite, was added on in Edwardian times.
Thomas Crockett ...
New Post Office at Perry Barr
Newscuttings reporting the moving of the Perry Barr Post Office to the corner of Willmore Road and Birchfield Road and at least one user's response to it!
From the G.H. Osborne collection of newscuttings....
New Student block at Bristol Street/ Lee Bank Middleway
The building is across the road from McDonalds. It's by the main road called Bristol Road. It's a very tall building and it's just getting built. (This image was taken by children from year Five at Woodview ...
New student block at Lee Bank Island
This block is under construction on the island where Lee Bank Middleway meets Bristol Road/ Street. It is planned as accomodation for Birmingham University students. The England flag visible on the van ...
New Student Block on Benmore - by Year Five at Woodview
This is a building of a student accommodation; as you can see it is not fully built yet.
New student block on the Benmore estate
Construction picture of the new student block on the edge of the Benmore estate at the junction of Bristol Road and Lee Bank Middleway. Students will be living there while studying at Birmingham University....