St. Mary's Church - Sites and Monuments Record
The mother church of a large parish. and in existence by 1200. Of C12-early C13 origin but much enlarged and rebuilt completely in the C19. Red sandstone with nave, aisles, chancel & South tower.
It ...
St. Mary's Church - 360 degree rotational view of interior
St. Mary's Church dates from the 12th century. It was completely resotred and partly rebuilt in 1876 under the direction of J.A. Chatwin.
St. Mary's Church, Handsworth
St Mary's Church, the parish church of Handsworth, was originally built in the 12th century, but was completely restored and much rebuilt in 1876
St. Mary's Church, Handsworth
St Mary's Church, the parish church of Handsworth, was originally built in the 12th century, but was completely restored and much rebuilt in 1876
St. Michael's Church - Sites and Monuments Record
The Architect was Mr Bourne (of Dudley).The church was consecrated on 23rd July 1855. A large sandstone church with ashlar dressings, comprising chancel, aisles and nave, west transepts, south-west tower ...
Stafford Mandle & Leonard Davies about 1905
The men are riding early motorbikes built in Handsworth.
Taken in Devonshire Road by Philip Whitehouse.
Staffordshire General and Commercial Directory 1818
Trade Directories started to flourish around the beginning of the nineteenth century. They were originally aimed at the commercial traveller and included descriptions of an area along with a list of the ...
Stained and painted glass panel showing Witton Bridge
This view of Witton Bridge is painted onto clear glass and surrounded by stained and painted glass held in place with lead.
The panel would have been hung in front of a window to allow the light ...
Stained Glass
Birmingham Glass Studios Ltd, Edward Road. The owner Colin Brittle claims to be the only supplier of stained glass within 100 miles.
Standard bearer party for the Alfred Knight Way official ceremony
The guests for the ceremony were received for a brief service in Sunset Park where this impressive group of ten ex-service personnel waited for them. Knight won the Victoria Cross in 1917 at Ypres and ...
Starkey's Bakery
Starkey's, as this advert from St Luke's Church Magazine says, had several shops in the Birmingham area. The ones covered geographically by this project, and listed in the advert, are at 74 Bristol Street ...
Starling Garage - "Automobile Engineers"
An advertisement for "Starling Garage"
in the programme of the Saint James Church Fancy Fair held on 20th till 23rd November 1929.
Starling offered overhaul services, motorcar repair, automobile accessories, ...
Station Inn, Monument Road, Ladywood
The Station Inn, 373 Monument Road, Ladywood, at the junction with Cope Street (on the left). At the bottom right of the picture is the start of the now-vanished Shakespeare Road. At this point Monument ...
Statue of Christ
Des Berry the sculptor with the original block that will become the statue of Christ which was installed at Balsall Heath Church Centre on the corner of Edward Road Mary Street in 1980
Statue of George Dawson
The original statue of George Dawson, sculpted by Thomas Woolner. The canopy stands on four granite columns and was designed by J.H. Chamberlain. George Dawson (1821-1876) was originally a Baptist minister, ...
Statue of Joseph Sturge at Five Ways
The statue of Joseph Sturge stands in front of the Swallow Hotel at Five Ways. It was unveiled before a crowd of 12,000 on 4 June 1862. The sculptor was John Thomas who sadly died before the unveiling.
Joseph ...
Statue of St George in St Margaret's Church
The statue shows St George in medieval armour as he is probably best portrayed. St Margaret's Church was demolished in the nineteen fifties, what happened to the statue is unknown at time of writing (2004)....
Steam Bus in Ladywood
LN4509 Bellis and Morcom Steam Bus built Nov 1907 and in service from 1908. Pictured at Poplar Road with Driver Armstrong and conductor Harry Low.