Suffragette Meeting in Handsworth Council House
This newspaper report from the Handsworth Herald details a meeting of the 'militant' suffragettes. By 1913 the Suffragette movement had split into two main bodies. The Women's Social and Political Union ...
Suffragette Pilgrims arrive in Birmingham
During 1913 Suffragettes organised a March from Carlisle to London. On 12 July 1913 the march passed through Handsworth from Wolverhampton to a reception at Hockley. This Birmingham Daily Mail article ...
Suffragettes Protest Outside Winson Green Prison
In July 1913 Prime Minister Asquith came to Birmingham to speak at Bingley Hall. Suffragettes incensed at his lack of activity in the field of Women's Suffrage smashed windows of the hall as he spoke. ...
Suffragettes Release from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...
Suffragettes released from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...
Suffragettes Released from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...
Suicide of a Barmaid at Perry Barr
A newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection reporting on the death of Maude Edith Hawkes, a barmaid from the Fox Inn, Holly Lane, Perry Barr. She died after drinking a solution of 'Battle's Vermin ...
Suicide Of A Socialist by Chris Upton
From a distance it might have looked like a typical funeral. A small group of mourners were gathered around a freshly dug grave at Key Hill cemetery, shortly after Christmas in 1894. Drawing closer, however, ...
Suicide through love at Perry
This newscutting from the G.H Osborne collection tells of the suicide of 18 year old Marion Lilly Whatton a machinist from Clifton Road, Aston.
She had seen her sweetheart, Charles Turner of Guildford ...
Suicide through toothache
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail April 4th 1896.
This is a report following the inquest into the death of Thomas Anderson of Perry Barr. Anderson who lived in Wellington Road. Shot himself ...
Summer Hill Street and Nelson Street, Ladywood
The junction of Summer Hill Street, Ladywood, and Nelson Street (on the right). In this photograph, taken on 15 November 1960, the sun shows up the stone setts with which the streets are surfaced and ...
Summer Road
New build housing on Summer Road in the Woodview area. This housing was built as part of the urban regeneration of the area by Optima Community Association.
Sun Street West and Summer Road
Sunfruit Stores at the junction of these two roads. Some nice adverts along the road for Persil and Danish Bacon amongst others. Notice the two prams outside the shop, both mothers presumably inside Sunfruit ...
Sunken Garden, Handsworth Park. 1933
The park was opened in 1887 and originally called Victoria Park to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
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.
Sunset Park
Sunset Park was opened Summer 2006. It lies to the west of Moonlit Park which was opened in 2005. Both parks lie at the centre of the Park Central Development in the Lee Bank area of Birmingham.
Superprix Pass
Sponsor's pass for the 1989 Superprix event in Birmingham over the August Bank Holiday. Part of the track followed the middleway that runs through the Lee Bank area and along Bristol Street. The hospitality ...
Supplementary Education for Vietnamese Children
The children at Birmingham Vietnamese Community supplementary classes. The children have classes in subjects like English and Mathematics, and also are taught Vietnamese language and culture.