The Old Toll Gate House, 110 Hamstead Road
This photograph clearly shows the black and white building now known as the Old Toll Gate House which is on the corner of Hamstead Road and Villa Road . It was built near the site of the old toll gates ...
The Perry Barr Trams
This letter to the editor of the Daily Post is part of a series of ongoing complaints about the tram service to Perry Barr. The writer complains that a full tram had been held up that morning waiting ...
The Perry Barr Trams - A Complaint
This newscutting tells of a lady wishing to alight from a tram but unable to attract the attention of the conductor. In an effort to help her the writer of the letter pulled the bell and was immediately ...
The struggles at the trams - A disgrace to the city
These cuttings from the G.H. Osborne collection concern an ongoing problem with queueing for the trams. There seem to have been no organised queues so 'many persons were kept waiting in the rain for ...
The Tram Depot on Moseley Road
The last steam trams ran at New Year, 1906, so the depot on the Moseley Road which opened in 1907 was used only for electric trams. The building itself, with its magnificent appearance was specially designed ...
Toll Gate and Rose Hill House
Rose Hill House occupied a site at the corner of Soho Road and Rose Hill Road, opposite the former Methodist chapel. It was the residence of William Creighton who was an engineer employed at the Soho ...
Toll Gates on Hamstead and Villa Road
Watercolour sketch of the toll gates. This sketch was made in 1872, the year of the gates removal, and is copied from a contemporary photograph. The gates were originally installed in 1727. The house ...
Toll-gate in Hamstead Road, Handsworth
Toll-gate at the junction of Hamstead Road and Villa Road, Handsworth. The gate was removed in 1872 and the house subsequently used as a girls' school.
Tollgates at junction of Villa Road and Hamstead Road
These Tollgates were removed in 1872. Before 1809 Hamstead Road was known as the Old Walsall Road.
Train and Tram Service
Details of Handsworth's train and tram services as published in the Handsworth Church Bazaar.
Tram 604 terminus at Oxhill Road
The Oxhill Road branch was added to the tram network in 1912. This view shows the terminus.
Tram Depot workforce
These workman are gathered just outside the main entrance to the tram depot on Moseley Road. Although undated it is probably from the early years of the depot, pre First World War. The gentleman to the ...
Tram terminus, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birmingham Corporation Tramways car no. 14 at the tram terminus, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr. This is a modern postcard of a 1938 photograph.
Tramcars - Rate of speed
Newspaper cutting from the Daily Post 1885.
This letter is one of several appearing in the local press of the time, complaining about the service being provided by steam trams in the Perry Barr area. ...
Tramline Track
A piece of track from Handsworth's tramways. It was discovered during the digging which took place for a garage refurbishment. Half of the rail was kept by the garage owner and half by the Handsworth ...
Trams on the Six Ways line
Newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail 1897.
This short article refers to a breakdown of a steam tram near the Barton Arms and complains about the behaviour of people boarding the trams during ...
Trams on the Soho Road
Trams passing nearby the library. An advert for Bovril is prominent on the tram.
Trams to Perry Barr
Newspaper cutting from the Daily Post 1895. This letter is one of many complaining about tram services in the area. This is of particular interest as it refers to the newly introduced "queue system".
This ...