The Fenian dynamite conspiracy in England
Another page of pictures from the Illustrated London News coverage of the discovery of the dynamite factory at 128 Ledsam Street. Top left is The Beaufort Hotel in Southampton Street, London where a conspirator ...
The first motorcycle in Handsworth Wood
Leonard Davies of 11 Himstock Road in 1902. The cycle was built by Milbrowe Smith, a motor car builder who lived at 239 Soho Road.
The folly on Waterworks Road
Beautiful snowy view of the Folly.
The former Clifton Infant School, Hertford Street.
St. Paul's Community Foundation School took over the buildings in 1973.
The Fountain, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Fountain formerly stood at the junction of Hagley Road and Sandon Road, Edgbaston, during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The photograph was taken in 1892. This strikingly slender structure ...
The Friar Tuck
Themed Food stand
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, Handsworth. 21st June 1937
It was built in 1658 as a farmhouse, becoming a gentlemen's residence about 1700. It was eventually demolished in 1937 as part of the "Grestone development". One notable owner was Frederick Arthur Walton ...
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 Future Edgbaston
A newspaper cutting from the "Weekly Mercury", January 26th 1907.
This article reports on an interview with Councillor Fred Lempriere of the District council about Birmingham's proposed scheme to ...
The Future of the Community
Vietnamese boys outside the MVCA offices in Charleville Road.
The Future of the Community
The youngest attendee at MVCA Annual General Meeting!
The Future of the Community
Vietnamese children on a day trip.
The Gables Hall, Handsworth
Interior view of the Gables Hall, Finch Road, Handsworth. The building was registered for public worship in 1936.
The Gala
Famously known as The Broadway Cinema for most of its life it was in the seventies known as The Cinephone and in the eighties as The Gala. Showing on this day was "Bambi", probably one of the summer re-runs ...
The gardens at the Middleway Blocks
This photograph was taken by resident May Williams. The four blocks, Hogarth, Faraday, Audleigh and Chiswick are still there today. Much of the surrounding development from the fifties and sixties has ...
The Gateway of India
The Gateway of India public house stands on the corner of Soho Road and Ivy Road. It will still be remembered to many by its original name "Ivy House".
'The Girl in the Black Lace Mantilla'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: plastika.
Exhibition labels on reverse: 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. Selected and Hung [at the] Exhibition of Midland Photography, 1952' and 'Birkenhead ...