Old Slade Gardens, Handsworth
Old Slade Gardens, Handsworth. The lane led from Nineveh Road to Piers Road.
Oliver Pemberton, Birmingham City Coroner
Oliver Pemberton, F.R.C.S., J.P., was one of the Pemberton family who were brassfounders in Birmingham. His father was Thomas Pemberton of Warstone House. Born in 1825, he trained in medicine and eventually ...
Opening of the Lozells Road Trams
This cutting from the G.H. Osborne Collection of newscuttings is the announcement of the opening of the Lozells Road section of the tramline with trams to run every 15 minutes.
Original St Luke's Church, Bristol Street
St Luke's Church, Bristol Street, Lee Bank, in the course of demolition in 1899. It seems curious that the clock-face was not removed before demolition of the stonework started. Although a wooden structure ...
Oscott College, New Oscott
The college lodge, Oscott College, New Oscott
Osler Street School
The school opened in 1875, named after Abraham Follet-Osler, local worthy and glass manufacturer. The school has long since vanished in the urban renewal programme for Ladywood.
Osler Street School, Ladywood
Osler Street School in Ladywood was opened first as a boys' school on 15 November 1875. The girls' school followed in 1886, and the Junior and Infants' School in 1908. Much later, in 1962, the Follett ...
Overcrowding on Trains
A newscutting from the Birmingham Post reporting the case of two tradesmen Mr Heath and Mr Burton who sued the London and North-Western Railway Company for nine shillings. They had been waiting for a ...
Overcrowding Tramcars
This letter to the editor of the Daily Post is one of many complaining about the tram service. This writer tells of travelling from the Barton Arms and one of the tram company special officials allowing ...
Painful drowning case at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889.
This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Hawkes Lane, West Bromwich.
She had been found dead in ...
Paradise Street
Paradise Street, below the Town Hall, during the winter of 1899. Snow clearance taking place in the foreground by the lamp post as a horse drawn bus struggles past.
Parkfield House
Located just past Speedwell Road going out of the City Centre along the Pershore Road. It was owned and built by an architect named Cranston. This house is typical in size and status of so many houses ...
Perrott's Folly with the Weather Observatory
In 1884 Abraham Follett Osler, the renowned inventor of the self-regulating anemometer, decided it would be the ideal place to do accurate meteorological readings. So for the next 95 years, under the ...
Perry Barr Toll-gate
In 1831 a turnpike road to Walsall was made which incorporated Birchfield Road. A toll-gate was erected across the road near the junction with Aston Lane and Wellington Road. This toll-gate was finally ...
Perry Barr Trams
This letter to the Editor of the Daily Post is from a resident of Birchfield Road agreeing with a previous writer. Both are complaining about the amount of steam and smoke generated by trams leaving ...
Perry Barr Trams
This letter is one of many about the Perry Barr trams. The writer is complaining of overcrowding on rush hour trams and asking why it is not possible to add extra services at peak times. This complaint ...
Perry Barr village
Perry Barr village, photographed in 1900