Rocky Lane Near Perry Barr
This much painted and photographed lane gets its name from the sandstone outcrop through which the lane was cut.
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
The old manor house in Rocky Lane, Perry Barr. The manor house became the bailiff's house after Perry Hall was built but it was demolished soon after this photograph was taken in 1909. The fingerpost ...
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr, at a point about 200 yards from the top. The vehicle approaching in this 1895 scene is one of Mr Edward Arm's milk floats.
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Old yew tree in Rocky Lane, Perry Barr, looking towards Walsall Road. A girl is standing inside the hollow trunk in this 1896 photograph.
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Sutton Lane from Rocky Lane, Perry Barr, from a postcard
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr, from a postcard
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Ancient yew tree in Rocky Lane, Perry Barr, from a postcard
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Postcard view of Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr
Rocky Lane, Perry Barr, before 1930, from a postcard
Rough Road, Perry Barr
Rough Road, Perry Barr, on 14th September 1932 when new housing had spread along one side and the road had been kerbed and surfaced.
Sad Death at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the Handsworth Herald relates the death of Miss Emily Lindsay from Wellhead Lane. She had suffered from consumption for some time but had seemed healthy until a few days before ...
Sad Fatality to a Gentleman at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette, September 8th 1881.
The article refers to the death of Mr George Chase following an accident in his horse drawn trap in Rocky Lane, Perry Barr.
This ...
Saddlers Arms, Perry Barr
Saddlers Arms, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, between Franchise Street (to the left) and Birchfield Road School. From a private photographic survey of buildings demolished for the Birchfield Road underpass ...
Saint John's Church, Perry Barr
Saint John's Church, Perry Barr
Shot a friend instead of the rabbit
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail,July 12th 1895.
An article reporting on a case at the Birmingham County Court in which an action was brought against John Foden of Perry Barr by Samuel ...
Sir John Benjamin Stone and Handsworth
John Benjamin Stone was born in Aston in 1838. Stone was active as a local councillor, magistrate and MP in the Birmingham area. It is though for his photographic archive that Stone has remained famous. ...
St John's Church, Perry Barr
St John's Church, Perry Barr, in 1906. The church was built in 1832.
St John's Church, Perry Barr
St John's Church, Perry Barr, in 1906. John Gough of Perry Hall paid for the church to be built in 1832. Until then the people of Perry Barr had to go to St Mary's, the parish church of Handsworth.