The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Road
The entrance Hall to The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Road. Built by a Mr Constantine c.1900 the wood panelling and beams are all of polished dark oak. The frieze shows a hunting scene on the left, ...
The Austins
The house stood on 22 acres of land bordered by what is now Island Road, Sandwell Road, Oxhill Road and Camp Lane. The house was most famously owned by the Whateley/ Piddock family for many years until ...
The Austins and elsewhere by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck
Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at The Austins. Elizabeth presented a bound volume of 28 of her watercolours to her son Ernest for Christmas in 1885. This gallery contains ...
The Austins' Pools
The former home of the Hasluck family stood on the site of what is now The Austins Estate. All that is left now are the pools which lay in the grounds of the house and are now situated in the middle of ...
The Austins Watercolour album
The inscription by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck in the album of watercolours she gave to her son Ernest on December 25th 1885. Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at the Austins. ...
The Breakfast Room in Heathfield Hall
The picture is undated but probably dates from the time that Heathfield was occupied by the Pemberton Family. It was of course formerly the residence of James Watt.
Taken from the T.E. Pemberton album ...
The Calthorpe Deeds
Benjamin Stone's Diary entry covering the ancient deeds found by Lieutenant Somerset Gough Calthorpe at Perry Hall.
Friday Nov 16 1906
By the 9:20 train home to meet the Rev: Swindell to lunch at ...
The Drawing Room, Soho House
This view of Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton was taken when the house was in use as a hotel. What had been Boulton's Drawing Room was used as the hotel dining room.
The chimneypiece ...
The Drive, Wellington Road, Handsworth by E.R. Madeley
This watercolour by E.R. Madeley is captioned The Drive, Wellington Road with a note added that it is also known as The Hill. There is a large house called The Hill marked on Ordnance Survey Maps so ...
The Friary
The Friary and Lodge stood on Friary Road. The Friary was built in 1658 and demolished in 1937 as part of the Grestone development. The black and white half timbered effect was added sometime after 1906.
Occupants ...
The Friary, Friary Road
This photograph is a rear view of the Friary, taken in 1937, shortly before the house was demolished. The building and its lands, including the four acre paddock at the front of the house, were sold and ...
The Friary, Handsworth
The Friary, Handsworth, in 1906, from the south west. The Friary, originally built as a farmhouse in 1658 and enlarged around 1700, lay a little way back from the road in Friary Road. It was demolished ...
The Homestead, Hamstead Hill, Handsworth
The Homestead, Hamstead Hill, Handsworth. This house was demolished in June 1971.
The Leveretts, Camp Lane, Handsworth
The Leveretts, Camp Lane, Handsworth. The photograph shows the Leveretts at the time it was employed by the Birmingham Corporation as a centre for treating psychiatric disorders. The land had been known ...
The Lodge to Browne's Green
Browne's Green lodge looking back towards Handsworth Wood Road.
This was the lodge to Browne's Green House which was probably built around 1800 by Mr Nathaniel Clarke KC. Subsequent occupiers included ...
The Moors, Church Lane
Watercolour sketch of the Moors circa 1879. Built by John Goode Esq. in the early nineteenth century, the house and fields stood between Church and Grove Lanes.
Later it was the home of Dr Hedley ...
The Old Grey House, Hamstead Hall Road
The photograph depicts the side of this grand house and some of the garden.
Little is known about the history of The Old Grey House, though a request for information has brought forward the description ...
The Old Hall, Great Barr
The Old Hall was probably built around 1730 and is all that remains of a much larger house, containing fine timbers and panelling. Both the farmhouse and barn are now Grade II listed.