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 Edward Street
The Lyric Picture House (just visible at the end of the line of the terrace) was in Edward Street. It had previously been a church building! The end for the Lyric came when the immediate area was demolished ...
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 ...
Rear of numbers 259 and 260 Great Colmore Street
These houses would have stood at the Bristol Street end of Great Colmore Street. Through the entry can be seen Great Colmore Street itself.
Rear of Shakespeare Road
Taken in 1968 before urban renewal of the area.
Reaside Nursery
The nursery is to the left of the picture which is of Hope Street. This is part of the substantial redevelopment of the Bristol Street/ Lee Bank area. The nursery has now relocated to the St Thomas Centre ...
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, ...
Rebuilding on site of "Doctor's House", Rookery Road
Doctor Welch's House was demolished in May 1969. The last occupant was a Dr Gorman or a Dr Campbell.
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 ...
Receipt for cleaning boot tops, reverse
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 ...
Receipt for the Phillp Album from HP Marshall, Smethwick Borough Librarian
This receipt is pasted into the front of the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). It records the loan of the album by Mrs Sleigh, a Phillp descendant ...
Recipe for Jalebi on sale on Ladypool Road
This popular sweet is sold by many Indian food outlets in Balsall Heath.
To make Jalebi:-
Ingredients:
2 cups self raising flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup yogurt
Vegetable/canola/sunflower cooking ...
Rectory, Handsworth
Handsworth Rectory stood near the church in the park on the site of the lake.
Red Lion Bar, Soho Road
At the bar in the Red Lion, Handsworth. The man with the bottle in his hand has the nickname 'Barleywine', because it is his favourite drink.
Red Lion Hotel
The original Red Lion was an old coaching house and was granted its first license in 1542, in the reign of Henry VIII. The "new" Red Lion Was built on the same site.During the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell's ...