St Catherines RC School on Windmill Street
The school was opened on January 3rd 1876 as St Catherine's Boys' School. The infants had already occupied part of the building the year before that. The school became mixed but space proved a problem ...
St Catherine's School Windmill Street
Mothers taking children to the original St Catherine's School which stood on Windmill Street. The school was handed over to Birmingham Corporation in 1964 and pupils transferred to a two form entry primary ...
St Luke's and Wycliffe Baptist Churches, Bristol Street
A rare view of Bristol Street in the 1890's showing the original St Luke's Church (to the far left) which had to be demolished in 1899 due to being in an unsafe condition. A new church was built on the ...
St Luke's Church
An interior view of old St Luke's Church, Bristol Street. This photograph was taken at the very end of the 19th century, just before the building was demolished to make way for a new St Luke's Church. ...
St Luke's Church, Bristol Street
Interior of St Luke's Church, Bristol Street, Lee Bank, photographed before demolition began in 1899.The point of the picture was probably to show how unsafe the church was as the pillars are clearly ...
St Luke's Church, Bristol Street
View of St Luke's Church, Lee Bank, on the corner of St Luke's Road and Bristol Street. In this illustration dating probably from the 1890s the building on the left is the church school. The building ...
St Luke's School, Lee Bank
St Luke's School in Bristol Street, Lee Bank. St Luke's was a Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School but has since been closed down. Behind it can be seen the roof of St Luke's Church. The tower ...
St Thomas' Church, Bath Row
The remains of St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, Lee Bank. The building was designed by Rickman and Hutchinson and built in 1826/29. Pevsner admires the west front, but describes as 'odd' the ball and cross ...
St Thomas' Church, Lee Bank
St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, Lee Bank, seen in a photograph taken soon after the end of World War II. The church was built in a classical style in 1826/29 but only the west end survived enemy action during ...
St Thomas' Church, Lee Bank
The tumbled masonry and the classical columns put one in mind of scenes of 'the grandeur that was Rome' but this is St Thomas' Church in Bath Row, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken in 1946 before clearing ...
St Thomas on Bath Row
An impressive photograph of the remains on the church. Taken in 1950 after the area had been cleared, the Peace Garden is still many years away yet. This area was heavily bombed during WWII and the Church ...
St Thomas's School construction site
View of the site as construction was about to commence on the new school on Great Colmore Street - replacing the original school on Granville Street.
St Thomas's School, Lee Bank
St Thomas's School in Lee Bank was on the corner of Bath Row and Granville Street. In this photograph, dating presumably from the late 1940s, new children are being introduced to the class. The classroom ...
St Thomas's Tower
The spire of St Thomas's Tower on Bath Row. This spire is visible from some distance in all directions. It has survived the blitz and also the last re-development of the area and is now "overseeing" the ...
Starkey's Bakery
Starkey's, as this advert from St Luke's Church Magazine says, had several shops in the Birmingham area. The ones covered geographically by this project, and listed in the advert, are at 74 Bristol Street ...
Statue of George Dawson
The original statue of George Dawson, sculpted by Thomas Woolner. The canopy stands on four granite columns and was designed by J.H. Chamberlain. George Dawson (1821-1876) was originally a Baptist minister, ...
Street art
This spray painting was on the hoardings next to the Attwood Green Community Centre. The painting was commisioned for an Open Day at the Centre by manager James Hobbs. Behind the hoardings the land was ...
Sunny Face of the Community Centre
All visitors to the Community Centre in Gaywood Croft (off Cregoe Street) were greeted right away by this large sunny face on the landing.