The opening of the Birmingham Show 1958
Birmingham Show 4th September 1958.
Eight year olds Compton Edwards and John Oakes waiting for the opening of the Birmingham Show in Handsworth Park.
The Oratory and Estate Office, Edgbaston
The buildings on the left in this Hagley Road scene form part of the Oratory and were originally the Oratory School. They were designed by Henry Clutton in a simple Italian Renaissance style in the early ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory Church, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The church, designed by E. Doran Webb, was built from 1903 to 1909 in memory of Cardinal Newman (who had died in 1890). ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Although the Oratory of St Philip Neri had been founded in 1852 by Cardinal Newman the church seen here was not built until 1903/09, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Cardinal Newman, founder of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, came to Birmingham in 1849 and established the Oratory of St Philip Neri as a community ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The low angle of this photograph gives some idea of the scale and richness of E. Doran Webb's building, completed in 1909. Interestingly, ...
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Oratory in Hagley Road began as the English Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, founded by John Henry Newman in 1849. On moving to the Hagley Road site in 1852 Newman engaged Terence Flanagan ...
The Osler Street School magazine
The cover of 'Osmag', the magazine of Osler Street School, Ladywood, as it was in 1950, featuring a footballer who looks rather too beefy to be a pupil.
"Osmag" was the chronicle of Osler Street Secondary ...
The Palais De Danse - Sensation of the Midlands
This article was originally published in the "Brew 'Us Bugle" about the Palais De Danse in Ladywood.
On 20th December 1923 the Palais De Danse issued a souvenir of the third anniversary of the building. ...
'The Patrician'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] The Art Gallery, Hanley. 1950’ & 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case
A newscutting relating the the inquest following the death of Eliza Garland who drowned in the Tame Valley Canal. Two onlookers, Francis Perigo and Joseph Horton attempted to rescue her but did not get ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case
A letter to the press following the inquest following the death of Eliza Garland who drowned in the Tame Valley Canal. Two onlookers, Francis Perigo and Joseph Horton attempted to rescue her but did ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case
Some of the letters to the press following the inquest following the death of Eliza Garland who drowned in the Tame Valley Canal. Two onlookers, Francis Perigo and Joseph Horton attempted to rescue her ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case
A letter to the press following the inquest following the death of Eliza Garland who drowned in the Tame Valley Canal. Two onlookers, Francis Perigo and Joseph Horton attempted to rescue her but did ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case
A letter to the press following the inquest following the death of Eliza Garland who drowned in the Tame Valley Canal. Two onlookers, Francis Perigo and Joseph Horton attempted to rescue her but did ...
The Perry Barr Trams
This letter to the editor of the Daily Post is part of a series of ongoing complaints about the tram service to Perry Barr. The writer complains that a full tram had been held up that morning waiting ...
The Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Although an inn had been on the site of the Plough and Harrow in Hagley Road since the 18th century a new building was designed by John Fallows in a Tudor Revival style and was erected in 1832. This is ...
The Pound, Handsworth
The Pound, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. In the background can be seen some of the headstones in the churchyard of St Mary's.