Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, Smethwick
Mitchells & Butlers Brewery, Cape Hill. The view is from a tinted postcard produced by Mitchells & Butlers themselves, which on the back bears their slogan "Good honest beer".
Henry Mitchell was the ...
Mitchells and Butlers Brewery, Cape Hill
The brewery was founded in 1898, becoming probably the most recognisable Midlands brewery. In 1961 it merged with Bass. The brewery finally closed down in 2002 following takeover from Coors. The brand ...
Monument Road Baths, Ladywood
The original Ladywood Swimming Baths opened in Monument Road, Ladywood, on 27 February 1883. The building contained two large swimming baths (First Class and Second Class) but was as valuable to the citizens ...
Monument Road, Edgbaston
The southern end of Monument Road, Edgbaston, near Hagley Road, in a tinted postcard view dating from around 1900. The 'monument' from which the road takes its name is actually the 96-ft tall Perrott's ...
Moseley Road Methodist Church, Lime Grove on Moseley Road
This church was an off-shoot of the Cherry Street chapel in Birmingham founded in 1782 by John Wesley. The church buildings were destroyed during bombing in 1940. A new church was built on the same site, ...
Mr T.M. Colmore, J.P., Stipendiary for Birmingham
Portrait of Mr T.M. Colmore, J.P., Stipendiary Magistrate for Birmingham. Thomas Milnes Colmore was born in 1845 and, after being educated at Rugby School and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was called ...
Mr T.M. Colmore, J.P., Stipendiary Magistrate for Birmingham
Portrait of Mr T.M. Colmore, J.P., Stipendiary Magistrate for Birmingham from 1888 to 1905. Thomas Milnes Colmore was born in 1845 into the Colmore family who had been in Birmingham from around 1500 and ...
Nelson Street School
The school was opened in 1876 as Nelson Street Board School and modified on several occasions. This image was donated by John Landon.
New Draper's shop in Perry Barr
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing the arrival of a new draper's shop in Perry Barr. J.T. Bowers of High Street, Aston were opening a branch six doors from Perry Barr station.
From the ...
New Inns
The old New Inns hotel on the Soho Road.
Nineveh, Handsworth
A group of cottages known as Nineveh, Handsworth. The present-day Nineveh Road takes its name from them.
Oak Hill Farm in Handsworth Wood
Oak Hill Farm probably stood near to Oak Hill House which lay between Church Lane and Handsworth Wood Road.
Old Cottages
Oil painting of old cottages in an unknown location by G Willis Pryce. The picture was framed by A.Charles Sava, 73 Hamstead Road.
Old Handsworth Church by Allen Edward Everitt
Everitt (1824-1882) was a prolific Birmingham artist and antiquarian whose watercolours and drawings are an important visual record of the historic architecture of the West Midlands. He lived for much ...
Old House, Park Road. May 30th 1968
Old Houses, Soho Hill by Paul Braddon
This watercolour of old houses on Soho Hill was painted by Paul Braddon in 1894.
Old oak tree at the corner of Church Lane, Perry Barr
Perry Church in the background
Watercolour by George Warren Blackham Nationality British
Active 1870- 1900
George Warren Blackham was a watercolourist who painted views of late nineteenth century ...
Old Perry from the Aldridge Road by William Nicholls
William Nicholls was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited 21 works at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1875 and 1889. His works included landscapes, rural and town scenes.