Oxhill Road
A photograph taken from Oxhill Road, the rise in the road beyond the traffic lights is Sandwell Road.
Oxhill Road and Rookery Road
The Oxhill Video Store photographed in 1996. Above the doorway are the worn details of a previous business on the site. Arthur Henry Diaper was a grocer and was apparently noted for his Danish butter ...
Oxhill Road entrance to Handsworth Cemetery
The magnificent iron gates and the lodge at the Oxhill Road entrance to Handsworth Cemetery.
The photograph is taken from the brochure for the opening of Handsworth Chapel on October 1st 1910.
Painful drowning case at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889.
This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Hawkes Lane, West Bromwich.
She had been found dead in ...
Palais De Danse advert
Undated advert for the Palais De Danse on Monument Road.
Pals Reunion 1965
Report on the annual reunion of the Birmingham Pals regiments of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The 1965 reunion was held at The Imperial Hotel and was the first time that the 15th and 16th Battalions ...
Pantomime at the Prince Of Wales
A piece from the local press promoting the panto at the Prince Of Wales Theatre during the war. The theatre, on Broad Street, was destroyed by bombs and incendiaries during the war. Seen rehearsing for ...
Papers of Sir Richard Threlfall
Sir Richard Threlfall was a chemist and engineer who worked for the firm of Albright & Wilson, a large producer of phosphorous based at Oldbury. During the First World War he was on the Board of Invention ...
Parachute and Harness
Part of the parachute and harness attached to the landmine dropped on Antrobus Road during the blitz. Unfortunately it is unknown exactly what year this was though it would have been between 1940-1942. ...
Parachute Queens
Three articles on the exploits of Lieutenant Lempriere. The main article concerns his "parachute queens" who regularly performed with him.
The names of those who worked with him are given as Cissie ...
Paradise Street
Paradise Street, below the Town Hall, during the winter of 1899. Snow clearance taking place in the foreground by the lamp post as a horse drawn bus struggles past.
Paradise To Reality with Mrs McGhie
Eunice McGhie-Belgrave was born in Jamaica, left there for England in 1957 aged 22 and set up home in Handsworth. This exhibition traces her journey and work with the community she found here.
Mrs ...
Park Central off Bath Row
An early construction phase photograph of the Park Central area off Bath Row. In the foreground is Bexhill Grove which is being demolished as part of phase 9 of the construction. Bexhill Grove follows ...
Park Central Plots 232-233
Located on the Wheeley's Lane area development. Part of Crest Nicholson's Attwood Green project.
Park Farm
The Park farm buildings lie between Hilltop and Handsworth Golf courses. Handsworth Golf Course now occupies what was the farmland.
Park Hill House
Park Hill House was built in 1831 and was situated between Hamstead Hill and Hamstead Hall Road. The most famous occupant was Charles Palmer, a brewer, who lived there in 1898. Palmer achieved some fame ...
Park House
Park House, Handsworth Park, Handsworth.
Photo taken in March 1966, House demolished in April 1966
Park Lane, Handsworth
Park Lane, Handsworth. A view of the site of the new Handsworth Cemetery in June 1908, the year before it opened.