John Edwards, Steel Pen Manufacturer
John Edwards traded from 40 Hill Street. Hill Street runs up the side of the Post Office into Victoria Square. Birmingham was a thriving home of the pen manufacturing industry and their is a pen museum ...
John Henderson - Grave at Keyhill Cemetery
The engineering partnership of Charles Fox and John Henderson was a great Victorian success story. They built the roof of the old New Street Station. They had a large hand in Paddington Station, built ...
John Inshaw's Steam Clock - by Chris Upton
At one time, believe it or not, the way to run a successful pub was to make it different from every other one, rather than the same. Some little gimmick or talking point that made customers come there, ...
John Satchell - Deacon and Politician
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download. The house where he died was owned by his son Ernest Percy Satchell (a surgeon)and ...
Joseph Gamgee and the Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund - by Chris Upton
Fame can be a fickle, unpredictable thing. Joseph Sampson Gamgee (pictured), sometime surgeon of Birmingham, would be puzzled to know that his name has been preserved and broadcast to the world as a character ...
Joseph Southall
Self portrait of Joseph Southall who lived for many years at Charlotte Road in Edgbaston. As well as being a highly acclaimed artist, Southall was also a prominent local Quaker. A blue plaque was put ...
Julius Alfred Chatwin - Architect
Julius Alfred Chatwin, (1830-1907) was educated at King Edward VI School in New St, started work with the local building contractors Branson & Gwyther. In 1851 he was articled to the firm of Charles Barry. ...
King Edward's Grammar School: Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Tinted Victorian postcard of a view looking along Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from Five Ways. The vehicle, apparently a horse-bus, is passing the old King Edward's Grammar School, Five Ways. Though opened ...
Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding
Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding in 1900. At this date it was still known as Holly Lane.
Kinver Screw Works, Ladywood
Trade advert for the Kinver Screw Works which were situated at 52 Icknield Square, a 2 minute walk from Monument Lane Station. As the advert says, they had previously traded at Staniforth Street as T.B. ...
Labourers at Soho Foundry
Last of Light Brigade - Former Birmingham Resident - Only Survivor
"Of the 600 men who took part in the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, there is only one survivor - Troop-Sergeant-Mayor Edwin Hughes of the 13th Light Dragoons, whose two sons reside in ...
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane
Group photograph of some of the farm labourers. Why the violins have been brought out is a mystery! In the background can also be seen a signal box on the railway line passing through Handsworth.
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane
Taken sometime around the early years of the twentieth century.
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane, Handsworth
Lea Hall farm dated back to at least 1582 but the last farmhouse was there from about 1800. The "pink cottage" building was the one known as Lea Hall Farm and was said to be the oldest in Handsworth. ...
Lea Hall Farm, Wood Lane, Handsworth