Pinfold Street
This view of Pinfold Street, looking up to Victoria Square, is still recognisable today. The shops on the right even look familiar! Near the top end today would be the Victoria Cafe which is a popular ...
Pirates
The Lord Mayor confronts the pirates in the 1978 carnival.
Pitsford Street in the blitz
Pitsford Street runs off Clissold Street and near to Warstone Lane and Key Hill Cemetery. Then as now it was home to small industrial premises and the area here was an obvious target for the Luftwaffe. ...
Pitts & Phillips, builders and decorators, Lee Bank
The premises of Pitts & Phillips, builders, plumbers and painters, were at 25 Bristol Road, Lee Bank, on the corner of Stone Road. This photograph was taken in 1923, but the company had been at this address ...
Places of Worship
The Baptist Chapel on the corner of Edward Road and Harbury Road was built at a cost of more than £6,000. It was erected by the congregation which had been meeting in Balsall Heath since 1873 and provided ...
Plan of Handsworth Cemetery
Plan of the grounds of Handsworth Cemetery taken from the opening ceremony programme.
Plan of Heathfield Hall
Plan of Heathfield Hall, the former home of Jamas Watt. This plan was drawn by E.G. Collins of the Heathfield Estate Office in September 1921.
Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland. ...
Plan of Heathfield Hall
Plan of Heathfield Hall accredited to E.G. Collins (A.R.I.B.A.)Heathfield Estate Office September 1921. The Hall was demolished in 1925 and was the former residence of James Watt. After Watt's death it ...
Plan of Soho
A nineteenth century plan of Matthew Boulton's Soho by then in the ownership of his son, Matthew Robinson Boulton. The Mint is clearly visible to the right of the factory. By 1788 Boulton had six presses ...
Plan showing position of Archdale Works
This map shows how conveniently located the Works were, being easily accessible from New Street Station. You could either travel by train out to Monument Road Station or take the tram via Icknield Port ...
Plaque to commemorate the evacuation King Eaward VI, Five Ways, school
A plaque erected in Monmouth school as "a token of admiration for the high public spirit shown by the residents of Monmouth and in grstitude for the hospitality extended to hte boys who lodged in the ...
Play in the park team
Lucy Cadden and the Benmore Play Project who entertained and looked after children in Moonlit Park over the Summer holidays in Summer 2006.
Playbill for the Scala Cinema, Smallbrook Street
The film "Speedy" starring the legendary "silent" comic Harold Lloyd came out in 1928. The plot according to the excellent www.imdb.com site goes like this..."Speedy" loses his job as a soda-jerk, then ...
Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston
The Plough and Harrow Hotel on the Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. There has been an inn on the site since 1704, although the present building dates from 1832. The name seems to suggest the rural ...
Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston
The Plough and Harrow Hotel, Hagley Road, Edgbaston. Although this postcard probably dates from around 1900 the building has changed little over the years. The hotel can trace its ancestry back to 1612, ...
Plough by John Phillp
This pencil drawing of a plough is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. ...
Ploughboy on the Farm - Canada
Here we see one of the young emigrées working on the farm. John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable concern. ...
Pogus Caesar Galleries
Pogus Caesar, was born in St Kitts, West Indies, and grew up in Birmingham, England. He has produced and directed programmes for Central TV, Carlton TV and BBC TV. He was also the first Chairman of Birmingham ...