Chamberlain Square
Photograph taken duing the great freeze of 1946/1947. The scene looks familiar due to the presence of the Chamberlain Fountain and the two statues,still in the area today albeit in different positions....
Chandos School in Highgate
Chandos School, Vaughton Street, Highgate.
Channel 4's Time Team at Soho House
Channel 4's Timeteam archaeology programme undertook a dig at Soho in 1996. Looking for the remains of the Soho Manufactory digging took place in the back gardens of houses in South Road. The programme ...
Chapman's Mill - by Chris Upton
Turn the clock back a little more than a century and there were genuine windmills to see in Birmingham and not a Dutchman in sight. Perhaps the most famous of them stood in the unlikely location of Holloway ...
Chapman's Windmill and R.Wier on Holloway Head
Chapman’s brick built tower mill stood on the hill overlooking Holloway Head. It is thought to have been constructed in 1745 by Clark’s who were millwrights in Deritend until the late 18th century. There ...
Cherry Orchard Farm
Cherry Orchard farm was owned in 1900 by the Hales family. It was said to have dated from the fourteenth century, in 1327 it was listed as the home of Atte-Le-Berg. The house was demolished in 1930 and ...
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth
Cherry Orchard Farm, Hamstead, Handsworth. One of the larger farms in the area, the house was demolished in 1930 and gave its name to the modern Cherry Orchard Road.
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth
Cherry Orchard Farm, Handsworth, from a postcard. Possibly of 14th-century date the buildings were demolished in 1930.
Chest in St Thomas's School
This chest stands outside the headteacher's office in St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. Its history is unknown but it may have once been a chest used to store school documents. There is a possibility ...
Children and staff from The Oratory School at St John's Church
An exhibition was held at St John's Church in Ladywood to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Local schools attended, along with a re-enactment group who dressed in civilian ...
Children from St George's School celebrate at St John's Church
The celebrations were for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two, an exhibition put on by Norman Bartlam and Eileen Doyle of the Education Housing Initiative at Birmingham City Council.
Children in Back Yard, Handsworth
Children in Grove Lane
Children from Grove Junior & Infant School in Grove Lane
Children Playing
Children playing on trampolines at a fun day at the Mohammed Ali Centre in Hockley
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
Inside the Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children, on the corner of Sheepcote Street, was originally founded in 1862 and was in this ...
Children's Hospital, Ladywood
The Children's Hospital, Broad Street, Birmingham. The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children was founded in 1862 by Thomas Heslop and moved to this building on the corner of Sheepcote ...
Children's Party at the Council House
Invitation from The Lord Mayor William Adlington Cadbury. The William A. Cadbury Charitable Trust website (www.wa-cadbury.org.uk)has this to say about him...
William was the second son of Richard Cadbury, ...
Christ Church, Perry Barr
Christ Church, Walsall Road, Perry Barr, in April 1959 after it had ceased to be a church (in 1926) and had become a timber merchant's premises.