Opening of Lee Bank Primary School
The first pages of the school diary by the first headteacher Denis Lyons. The extract reads as follows (use the "zoom" button to read the original clearly):
"The new school began its life as a Junior ...
Opening of Moonlit Park
Pupil from Woodview Primary School at the opening of Moonlit Park in the Attwood Green development area. The pupils turned up in costume and pushed decorated supermarket trolleys all linked to the theme ...
Opening the park
Procession of children from Woodview Primary School for the official opening of Moonlit Park in Attwood Gree.
Oratory Magazine - Evacuation report
Excerpt from the Oratory Magazine concerning their evacuated children. The cutting reports that the children are located in three villages near Ashby. The only problem appears to be the foster parents ...
Oratory Magazine October 1940
A snippet from the Oratory Church magazine from the Second World War. It reads: "Our beautiful green copper dome has "gone with the wind" of fashion, and has painted her face; in other words she is camouflaged, ...
Oratory Parish Magazine, October 1939.
A short extract from the Oratory Parish Magazine, which talks about the gold dome of the Oratory being camouflaged with green paint. Clearly there was great concern that the moonlit dome would act as ...
Outside Faraday House
Gwen Hatton posing with her brother-in-law Stan Hancox on the road outside Faraday House. Behind them to the left is Lee Bank Post Office and behind them to the far right is the shuttered frontage of ...
Outside the Middleway blocks
This view was taken by resident May Williams who lived in the blocks. The blocks are still there today, upgraded and renovated, at the top end of Lee Bank Middleway as you approach Five Ways.
Owen Street junction with Wheely's Lane
Taken in 1960 not long before demolition began of Owen Street. The park area of Lee Bank was built over the area.
Pantomime at the Prince Of Wales
A piece from the local press promoting the panto at the Prince Of Wales Theatre during the war. The theatre, on Broad Street, was destroyed by bombs and incendiaries during the war. Seen rehearsing for ...
Park Central Plots 232-233
Located on the Wheeley's Lane area development. Part of Crest Nicholson's Attwood Green project.
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 ...
Pigott Street
Numbers 9-12 in Court 2 Pigott Street around the turn of last century. Pigott Street was swept away in the urban renewal of the nineteen fifties. It was in the Edgbaston/ Ladywood area which subsequently ...
Pigott Street
Numbers 5 to 8 in 2 Court taken around 1906 when the area was photographed extensively by Public Works. Pigott Street has long since vanished from the map of Birmingham as it was demolished in the urban ...
Pigott Street 9 to 11 in number 1 court
Undated photograph of this court in Pigott Street. The street was demolished as part of the urban renewal leading to the Lee Bank development. It ran originally from Bath Row down to Great Colmore Street. ...
Pigott Street and Pinfold Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following roads: Phipson Road, Piccadilly, Pickford Street, Piddock Road, Piddock Street, Piers Road, Pineapple Grove, Pineapple Road, Pinfold Street, Pitcairn Road, Pitney Street. ...
Pigott Street, Lee Bank
Back-to-back housing in Pigott Street, Lee Bank. Now demolished, this row is nos. 9-12, in Number 2 Court. Pigott Street itself has disappeared, but was off the western end of Great Colmore Street. The ...
Pitts & Phillips, builders and decorators, Lee Bank
The premises of Pitts & Phillips, builders, plumbers and painters, were at 25 Bristol Road, Lee Bank, on the corner of Stone Road. This photograph was taken in 1923, but the company had been at this address ...