The City Tavern
This pub stands on the junction of Bishopsgate and Tennant Street just off Broad Street. It is a superb example of a terracotta stonework Victorian building.
The Clifton Pub
The pub has been a fixture on the corner of Ladypool and Clifton Road for a hundred years. Famously in 1914 it was where local butcher Mr Stiles opined drunkenly that the Germans should win the war. He ...
The Clifton Public House
The pub stands on the junctions of Clifton Road and Ladypool Road. it is named after the road which is named after the area near to Bristol where the suspension bridge is located. The pub sign features ...
The Colwyn Pub
The Colywyn stands at the junction of Great Colmore Street and Wynn Street, its name is a contraction of Colmore and Wynn. Recently refurbished it will be the last public house within the "triangle" of ...
The Consuls Will
The front cover of the script for the play The Consuls WIll, written and illustrated by Arthur Frederick Wallis writing under the name of P. Bentley.
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The Council House decorated for the VE Day 60th anniversary
The Council House side entrance
Unusual view for those who see it often - here it is sandbagged as it probably was during the war.
The Cream Dress
The Cream Dress being modelled by a member of the Museum staff at the exhibition launch, August 2005
The Danger of Tinned meats.
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail August 3rd 1893.This is a report following the inquest into the death of of a young girl who died as a result of eating rabbit from a damaged tin. The tinned ...
The Dart looks at the Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
More illustrations from "The Dart" concerning the dynamite factory in Ledsam Street. Top left, looking sombre, is the chief protagonist in the case, Alfred Whitehead. Top centre is the "dynamite shop" ...
The Death of a Lady Cyclist - Supposed Over-Exertion
A newscutting reporting the death of eighteen year old Frances Kate Bibb while cycling. She had apparently been cycling at a 'medium pace' on a level road when she collapsed. She was unconscious and ...
The Death of Mr G. Marsh Jones
This letter is a response to reports on the inquest into the death of George Marsh Jones of Wellington Road, Perry Barr.
Mr Jones worked as a dispenser at the Childrens Hospital in Steelhouse Lane. The ...
The digger moves in
the business end of the digger which demolished the Community Centre on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street. People watched in fascination as it tore the place down in about one hour. Here it looks like something ...
The Direct Furnishing Co - Soho Road
G.V. Hollidge and H.Daniels were the proprietors of this furniture store at 283 and 285 Soho Road. An interesting note is the listing of the trams which pass along the Soho Road - numbers 23, 28, 73, ...
The Diskery and the Wellington
On the corner of Bromsgrove Street and Bristol Street is the Diskery, a mecca for record collectors since the late 1950s, although the shop was originally in Hurst Street and only moved to its Bromsgrove ...
The Diskery Record Shop
This article entitled "How The Years Spin Round" was written by Sophie Blakemore and published in the Birmingham Mail. The article can be read easily by clicking on the "zoomify" plug in next to the picture. ...
The Dog and Duck on Holloway Head
The Dog and Duck public house stood on the right hand side as you approach Smallbrook Street (Queensway), just before Clydesdale Tower. The picture dates from the latter half of the nineteenth century ...
The Drawing Room, Soho House
This view of Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton was taken when the house was in use as a hotel. What had been Boulton's Drawing Room was used as the hotel dining room.
The chimneypiece ...