Handsworth and the Muzzling Order
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald",19th June 1897.
This cutting refers to the muzzling order introduced by Staffordshire County Council the previous year, following an outbreak of rabies. ...
Handsworth bans Jude The Obscure
The Handsworth Library Annual Report made no reference to the banning of 'Jude the Obscure', by Thomas Hardy, from the library in March 1896, but there was animated discussion in the newspapers
'Mr ...
Handsworth Cemetery Gates - Sites and Monuments Record
Iron gates and four sets of gate piers to Handsworth Cemetery immediately to SE of the Lodge. Circa 1909 and presumably designed by WH Bidlake. The style is approximately early Eighteenth Century. Swept-up ...
Handsworth Church & its Surroundings
Frontispiece of pamphlet of 'Handsworth Church and its surroundings. A lecture delivered in the Parish School Room, Handsworth, on Friday April 28th 1876, by Allen E. Everitt'. Printed by E.C. Osborne, ...
Handsworth Church Bazaar
Bazaar held at the local board rooms in aid of the National Schools.
Handsworth Community Library, Handsworth
Handsworth Community Library, Soho Road, Handsworth. The building had started life in 1879 as the council house for Handsworth Urban District Council. The branch library opened in the building in 1880. ...
Handsworth Council Offices
Building commenced on October 30th 1877. It is located on the corner of Soho Road and Stafford Road and is now familiarly known as the location of the public library.
Handsworth Fire Brigade, Birchfield Road Station.
The brigade was originally formed in 1878. 1898 £2,200 was borrowed to erect a new fire station and buy better equipment. The Birchfield Road station was acclaimed as one of the most efficient in the ...
Handsworth Grammar School
Formerly known as the Bridge Trust School it opened on 5 August 1862 and consisted of one main room alongside two smaller classrooms and a boardroom. It became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Grammar School - Sites and Monuments Record
Designed in 1862 by a Mr Bidlake of Wolverhampton at a cost of £3,300. Constructed from red and black brick with stone dressings and a tile roof.
The building is single storeyed with seven bays. The ...
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane, Handsworth. It was founded with a grant from the Bridge Trust and opened, as the Bridge Trust School, on 5th August 1862 with 59 pupils. The name was changed ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth. Opened as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Hall
Lithograph by T Underwood, Birmingham.
Handsworth Hall was situated in extensive grounds covering the area of Villa Road, Rose Hill, Crick Lane and Broughton Road. The site of the actual house was at ...
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for childrens' books. The view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for fiction books, the view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and ...
Handsworth Library's 19th Century readers
Who were the people using Handsworth Library in the late nineteenth century?
Until 1902 the Annual Report recorded the trades of borrowers. 'Scholars and students' were always the largest group. There ...
Handsworth Magazine
The Handsworth Magazine started publication in July 1896 and described itself as a "local society magazine". The local areas targetted were Handsworth, Perry Barr and Birchfield and the appeal was towards ...
Handsworth Old Rectory (and Manor House) - Sites and Monuments Record
The site of the Manor House was "not improbably" that occupied by the old rectory, close to the church, now part of Victoria Park. Its moat could have been fed by the little stream that still trickles ...