Alfred Smith - Grave at Keyhill Cemetery
Alfred Smith served with the RAF in World War Two. He was killed on 17th June 1941 and is buried at Keyhill Cemetery in Birmingham. Smith was an aircraftman second class in 218 squadron of the Royal Airforce ...
Alfred Tennyson Dickens at the Town Hall
There is no year on this item, just the day and month of 20th February, but Dickens died early in 1912 in New York so it dates from within a few years before that. Alfred was the godson of Alfred Tennyson ...
All Saints Church
Unknown location.
All Saints Church (reverse of postcard)
This postcard was sent by a mother to her convalescing son, a World War One casualty. Private Harold Willey (16629) survived the War. his convalescence was at the Battenhall Red Cross Hospital in Worcestershire. ...
All Saints' Church, Hockley
View of the interior of All Saints' Church, Hockley, looking towards the altar. The church was on the west side of All Saints Street, between Lodge Road and Crabtree Road. This postcard view bears the ...
All Saints Church, Kingstanding
All Saints Church, Shady Lane, Kingstanding, in 1938. The church was built soon after the vicar and churchwarden of Perry Barr had acquired the site in 1893.
Alston Street
Coley's Privision Shop at the junction with Johnstone Street. Both streets have since been demolished but this crossroads lies near to Rodney Close.
Alton Ellis, Jamaican Vocalist
"Alton Ellis, originally a dancer, started singing in the 1950s, his unique vocal style was influenced by the black churches. Over the past 25 years he performed many times at the Santa Rosa / Rialto ...
Amar House, Handsworth
Amar House, Handsworth, at the corner of Soho Avenue and Soho Hill
Amar House, Handsworth
Amar House, Handsworth, at the corner of Soho Avenue and Soho Hill
Amex Wines on Mary Street
Serving "wines from the world".
An electric car at Highgate School
Highgate School reach the finals of the BP sponsored "buildacar" competition with this electric car in November 1980.
An Unlucky Handsworth Sportsman
A newscutting reporting the court case following a shooting accident. Henry Haseler, a jeweller of St Peter's Road, Handsworth had been out shooting at Half-way Farm and returning to the farmyard with ...
'And Most Divinely Fair'
Photograph by Ruth Handley, nd. Process: plastika.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited ...
Anderton Park Primary pupils
Pupils looking at the display of vegetables on sale at a greengrocers on Ladypool Road.The photograph taken by pupils from Anderton Park School as part of a project looking at how Ladypool Road has changed ...
Anderton Park Primary School
A piece of work written about Eric the scrap man whose premises are at the corner of Ladypool Road and Brunswick Road by a pupil from Anderton Park School as part of a project looking at how Ladypool ...
Anderton Street
Norman Bartlam writes that: This picture and others like it filled the pages of the local press as a prelude to a visit to the area by Housing Minister Richard Crossman. After the ministerial visit, which ...
Anderton Street celebrates
The residents are gathered to celebrate the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The boy on the right in the white peaked cap is Ernie Pearce. Leslie Checkley, who donated the photograph, recalled ...