Ecton Mine 'Sun & Planet' Engine, Staffordshire
Drawing 'No.5' of the front view of the engine and section of the boiler and seating.
This was a typical 'sun & planet' engine, applied to mine winding. It was ordered for Ecton copper mine in Derbyshire. ...
Ecton Mine 'Sun & Planet' Engine, Staffordshire
Drawing 'No.6' of the front view of the pit framing of the winding engine 'taken as looking in direction from (x) in No.2'
This was a typical 'sun & planet' engine, applied to mine winding. It was ...
Ecton Mine 'Sun & Planet' Engine, Staffordshire
Views of the engine framing.
This was a typical 'sun & planet' engine, applied to mine winding. It was ordered for Ecton copper mine in Derbyshire. The mine was owned by the Duke of Devonshire, and ...
Ecton Mine 'Sun & Planet' Engine, Staffordshire
Different views of the boiler, its seating and fire place.
This was a typical 'sun & planet' engine, applied to mine winding. It was ordered for Ecton copper mine in Derbyshire. The mine was owned ...
Ecton Mine 'Sun & Planet' Engine, Staffordshire
Side view of the winding barrel and spiral.
This was a typical 'sun & planet' engine, applied to mine winding. It was ordered for Ecton copper mine in Derbyshire. The mine was owned by the Duke of ...
Edgbaston Dyeing and Cleaning Works advert
W.S. Ragg and Son had two premises in and around the area at Islington Row and Broad Street. The advert also names the company's local agent A.E. Baker of Cregoe Street.
Edward Harry Jukes - Grocer
Edward Jukes traded at 311 Soho Road, right next to the junction with Boulton Road. His speciality "Boultonwattee" is of interest with it's clear local appeal. Presumably the tea was just packaged differently ...
Edward Road
A view of Edward Road looking towards Moseley Road. The Co-op is on the left hand side. Bath Walk is on the right.
Edward Road
Lots of interest in the photographer from a group of young boys outside a shop on this road in 1958.
EJ Thacker and Company: Plumbers, Gasfitters
Thackers were based on Hamstead Road. The pillar in the foreground is reputed to be from Norwood House.
Elizabeth McKeon remembers by Jim Fitzpatrick
Our large Irish family moved from Stratford Road Sparkbrook to Mary Street Balsall Heath in 1949.
Early memories are of trams running down Mary Street, the milkman delivering by horse and cart, and us ...
Engraving - Soho, Staffordshire
A view of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory engraved and published by J Walker in "The Itinerant: A select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland". The inscription ...
Envelope for letter by James Watt
Contents are by James Watt so the envelope is probably also written by him.
Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland. He worked as a mathematical-instrument maker from the age of 19 ...
Envy Music
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
The Soho Road houses several South Asian music and video retail stores. These date back to the late sixties and early seventies, when mainly Indian shopkeepers began to ...
Envy Music
Detail from Envy Music's window on the Soho Road.
Etap hotel construction site
Construction site at the end of Great Colmore Street at the junction with Bristol Street. This was many years ago the site of The Bell public house. Construction of the Etap Hotel was "modular" in that ...
F E Wilkes Decorating Contractors
F E Wilkes Decorating Contractors, Mary Street Balsall Heath
F. E. Spencer - Baker and Confectioner
Francis Edmund Spencer ran a bakery opposite the Library. He also had premises at number 93 on Holyhead Road so it would seem his "fancy" flour and delivery service were very popular in Victorian and ...