Harry Richardson - District Surveyor
Harry Richardson's biography comes from the Handsworth Magazine, and is also available as a download file. Mr Richardson lived at 166 Oxhill Road.
Mr Harry Richardson, A.M.I.C.E., who was appointed ...
Hasluck Family crypt at Key Hill Cemetery
The Hasluck family lived in Handsworth, most famously at The Austins. Elizabeth Hasluck's paintings of the Austins can be found elsewhere on this site. Key Hill Cemetery in the city centre is the location ...
Haytime at Hamstead Mill
Oil painting by John Joseph Hughes. Hughes, who lived at Villa Road in Handsworth, was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited at galleries in London and Birmingham. Between 1862 - 1908 he exhibited ...
Hazards of travelling on Trams
This cutting from the Birmimgham Times is drawing attention to the hazards faced by outside occupants of the Perry Barr and Lozells trams. A number of boys were hiding behind walls and throwing missiles ...
Head and shoulders of a young man by John Phillp
This drawing is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). It shows the head and shoulders of a young man and may be a self portrait. It is labelled ...
Heathfield - home of James Watt
Heathfield was the former residence of the inventor and engineer James Watt. Following his death the house had several occupiers including local luminaries Thomas Pemberton and George Tangye
Heathfield Christmas Card
Heathfield was the former residence of the inventor and engineer James Watt. Following his death the house had several occupiers including local luminaries Thomas Pemberton and George Tangye. In the bottom ...
Heathfield Hall
The former home of James Watt - inventor and engineer who worked with Matthew Boulton. It was built in 1790 and stood on grounds that lay between Hamstead Road, Church Hill Road and Heathfield Road. The ...
Heathfield Hall
The former residence of James Watt (died 1819), this view shows the lightning conductor erected by Watt. It is isolated by means of flint chipping as a non-conductor.
Heathfield Hall by Allen Edward Everitt
Everitt (1824-1882) was a prolific Birmingham artist and antiquarian whose watercolours and line and wash drawings are an important visual record of the historic architecture of the West Midlands. He ...
Heathfield Hall by Beatrice Bullock
Heathfield Hall, the former home of James Watt painted by Beatrice Bullock and given to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1938.
Beatrice Bullock lived in Handsworth at 14 Kingsleigh Road and painted ...
Henry Price
By the demise of Mr Henry Price, the venerable parish clerk and rates collector, Handsworth has lost one of its most familiar figures. Mr Price had reached the almost patriarchal age of 72 years when ...
Henry Price - Parish Clerk and Rates Collector
This is an abridged biography from The Handsworth Magazine, the full version is available as a download.
By the demise of Mr Henry Price, the venerable parish clerk and rates collector, Handsworth ...
Henshall's plan of Birmingham
Detail from a much larger plan of Birmingham by J. Henshall. This section of the plan includes part of the Ladywood area and to the bottom right can be seen most of what we would now know as Lee Bank. ...
Hill Street
This view is looking up towards Victoria Square. This still looks somewhat familiar to the view today with the Art Gallery, Chamberlain clock and Council House visible in the distance. The right hand ...
History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire by William White (1834)
White's 1834 Directory includes a description and brief history of Handsworth. Local gentry and trades people are listed for the area along with the neighbouring Perry Barr.
Hockley Brook
Hockley Brook circa 1850. This view is of the area at the bottom of Saint Michael's Hill