Portrait of a Body Builder
This photograph was taken at the gymn on Soho Hill next door to the Beehive. The bodybuilder's name is Colin.
Presentation to Queen Victoria
The scene inside Birmingham Town Hall on 23rd September 1887 when she received the official representatives from Birmingham. She was in Birmingham to lay the foundation stone for the Law Courts on Corporation ...
Princess Alexandra at Lee Bank Primary School: The newspaper report
Holiday children at school are told by princess: "You deserve the best"
The new Birmingham caught Princess Alexandra by surprise when she walked to the top floor of Lee Bank Primary School during her ...
Queen Victoria visits Birmingham
On 23rd March 1887 Queen Victoria visited Birmingham to lay the foundation stone for the Victoria Law Courts on Corporation Street. This was in fact the day before her birthday and was her golden jubilee ...
Queen's College, Paradise Street
The college was situated in Paradise Street in the city centre. The project was directed by Josiah Mason and cost £170,000 in building costs and endowments. It was opened in 1880. Two of its earliest ...
Queen's Hospital, Bath Row
This print is by L. Tallis of London. The hospital was founded in 1847 on Bath Row becoming Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1941 and closing in 1993. The building frontage was listed and incorporated ...
Ratcliff Place
This photograph was taken during the great freeze of 1946/1947. The view is in Ratcliff Place next to the Town Hall looking into Victoria Square. The old Central Library used to be located in Ratcliff ...
Reading For Miss
This is one of the few Vanley Burke photographs with a title. Taken at Grove Lane Junior and Infant School, Handsworth in the 1970's.
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 ...
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, ...
Remission (Melanie and Marleen Kerr), The Well Concert, Symphony Hall, 2002.
Twin sisters who come from a very talented musical family, who also sing for one of the most popular female groups, Divine.
Remission (Sonia Stevenson, Ruth Ible, Melanie Kerr) in rehearsal for the Well Concert
Members of the original Remission choir ensuring that they have perfect sound before the concert. If the message of spirituals is endurance of the trials of life with the reward of life after death, ...
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
The old manor house in Rocky Lane, Perry Barr. The manor house became the bailiff's house after Perry Hall was built but it was demolished soon after this photograph was taken in 1909. The fingerpost ...
Ron Hubbell talks about school in Ladywood
Ron Hubbell lives on Holloway Head. He grew up in Ladywood. In the attached sound clip he talks to the writer Jackie Gay about Steward and Barford Street Schools.
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Rookery Road School, Handsworth
To the rear of the class is the then headmaster Mr G. Challenor. The flag hanging at the back was presented to the school but the remaining inscription is too difficult to make out. The flag looks like ...
Rose Hill House
This house occupied a site at the corner of Soho Road and Rose Hill Road, opposite the former Methodist chapel. It was the residence of William Creighton who was an engineer employed at the Soho Manufactory. ...
Round Room at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The famous Round Room looking very different to how it is today. It still has paintings on the walls and the floor looks to be the same. In this view from the early part of last century the main difference ...
Saint Lukes School
Although the school has long since closed, the sign remains outside the entrance to the side. The school is currently being used as a Surestart centre but at some point in the near future the whole site ...