Terrace in Villa Road
Numbers 34 to 42 Villa Road in 1981. This 'stepped' terrace was built in the late 1840s on land leased from Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, the grandson of the industrialist Matthew Boulton. This land did ...
Thanksgiving at St Asaph's Church
First page of a leaflet publicising the thanksgiving service held at St Asaph's Church in 1901. The church stood at the heart of the Lee Bank community on Latimer Street and Great Colmore Street. The ...
Thasher's Nightclub
Santa Rosa opened in 1975. The club has changed names and management frequently throughout its lifetime. I knew it as Rialto, early 70’s - 1981. Then it became Thasher’s before it closed. ...
The "Brew 'Us Bugle" Number 1
The magazine of the Ladywood History Group is five years old this year. This is the front cover of the very first issue publsihed back in December 2001. The first issue was funded by Edie Ockford and ...
The "Y" Blocks
Looking towards Nash House on Grant Street. To the left are the low rise flats and Avon House and to the rear, just visible, is Lansdown House. The picture was taken from Bell Barn Road looking over the ...
The 1921 Miners' Strike
The photograph shows "the Handsworth volunteers" during the 1921 Miners' Strike. The picture is probably taken at Hamstead Colliery. The mines had been returned to private ownership following the First ...
The 1979 Parade from above
The parade was so much bigger in those days.
The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Road
The entrance Hall to The Anchorage, 137 Handsworth Wood Road. Built by a Mr Constantine c.1900 the wood panelling and beams are all of polished dark oak. The frieze shows a hunting scene on the left, ...
The ARP shelter under George Road
Fixtures and fittings remain at the former public air-raid shelter which was used during World War II. This sink (with only the cold tap left) has not been used for decades.
The artist David Bomberg
David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a painter, born in Sutton Street off Holloway Head. His family moved to London though when he was still an infant.
Bomberg returned to Birmingham ...
The Attwood Green Community Centre being demolished
Just over thirty years after it was opened as a centre for the Midland Adult School Union, the building was demolished as part of the regeneration of the Lee Bank area. Latterly it had played host to ...
The Austins
The house stood on 22 acres of land bordered by what is now Island Road, Sandwell Road, Oxhill Road and Camp Lane. The house was most famously owned by the Whateley/ Piddock family for many years until ...
The Austins and elsewhere by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck
Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at The Austins. Elizabeth presented a bound volume of 28 of her watercolours to her son Ernest for Christmas in 1885. This gallery contains ...
The Austins' Pools
The former home of the Hasluck family stood on the site of what is now The Austins Estate. All that is left now are the pools which lay in the grounds of the house and are now situated in the middle of ...
The Austins Watercolour album
The inscription by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck in the album of watercolours she gave to her son Ernest on December 25th 1885. Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at the Austins. ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
The origins of the club go back to 1947 when Charlie Humphrey, who lived in Balsall Heath Road and attended Dennis Road School, was shown a cycle speedway bike by one of his school friends and began laying ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
An action photograph of the Balsall Heath Panthers in action on their newly laid track in Balsall Heath Road.
The Balsall Heath Panthers
This photograph shows a little more of the bomb-site location which was home to the Panthers for their early years.