Quitclaim of messuages and lands in Handsworth
Quitclaim from Edmund Brudenell, son and heir of Thomas Brudenell of Thistleton, co. Rutland, gent., and Anne, his late wife, daughter and coheir of Thomas Warner of Wedligborow [Wellingborough co. Northampton], ...
R. Wright Pawnbrokers on Bell Barn and Upper Ryland Road
R. Wright's stood on the corner of these two roads. He was also a jeweller and clothier. The urban renewal of the area demolished all of Upper Ryland Road and the St Thomas Centre now occupies the site ...
Radio-cassette and chest of drawers
Lewis Green was evidently very fond of his radio cassette, it crops up in a few pictures and he even took it away on holiday with him. Here it is in his flat on top of a chest of drawers. Many people ...
Railings outside St James's Church - by Year Five at Woodview
This building used to be St James's church. It is apartments now. People are going to live in there.
Railway Line at back of houses
Taken in November 1981
Rainbow from Edmonton House - Angela Maloney
Edmonton House is on the Benmore Estate between Pershore and Bristol Road.
Ratcliff Place
This photograph was taken during the great freeze of 1946/1947. The view is in Ratcliff Place next to the Town Hall looking into Victoria Square. The old Central Library used to be located in Ratcliff ...
Ratepayers bestir yourselves
A handbill announcing a public meeting at the Perry Barr Institute on Wednesday May 1st 1907.
The main issue to be discussed at this meeting was the provision of a through service on the trams from Handsworth ...
Rats: Wartime Poster
Published by the Austin Motor Company Safety and Welfare Department. Many posters were published during WW2 for public information. This warning about keeping shelters tidy is one of the less commonly ...
Raymond Mason in the Bull Ring
Raymond Mason grew up in Wheeley's Lane and arguably became Birmingham's foremost artist and sculptor. This rare cutting from the Second World War era shows him at work in the Bull Ring sketching the ...
Reading For Miss
This is one of the few Vanley Burke photographs with a title. Taken at Grove Lane Junior and Infant School, Handsworth in the 1970's.
Reakes Music Ltd
Reakes Music Ltd were located at 11 Suffolk Street, Queensway, Birmingham. This 1970's advert was published in the St Luke's Church magazine. St Luke's being located on Bristol Street opposite McDonalds ...
Rear of Brookfields School
Another image of Brookfields school taken after it was hit during an air raid in 1941. this appears to show what is left of one of the upstairs classrooms; a plaque is clearly visible on one of the walls. ...
Rear of Brookfields School in the blitz
This image of Brookfields school was taken after it was hit during an air raid in 1941. The school is also known as Ellen Street School as it stood on the corner of Ellen and Pitsford Street. The school ...
Rear of houses in Wenman Street
Around the age 15 and 16 years, Keith Whitehouse went to St Martin’s Youth Club in Sherlock Street. “A whole gang of us from Balsall Heath went there, that community feeling spread across from Balsall ...
Rear of Number 14 Florence Street
A resident in the backyards of Florence Street. Visible are the wash tubs and wash houses. This image was used as evidence supporting the need to do something about conditions in the back to backs in ...
Rebecca Brookes, The Well Concert, Symphony Hall, 2002
Rebecca, one of the finest young praise and worship leaders in the Midlands is based at the Pentecostal Church in Stuart Street, Nechells. The singing technique used by gospel singers varies widely, ...
Receipt for cleaning boot tops
Memorandum of a receipt (recipe) for cleaning boot tops. The note is adressed to Robinson Boulton Esquire. Matthew Robinson Boulton, the son of Matthew Boulton the industrialist and entrepreneur was ...