The last of the floats 2006
This was the last year we could afford to put floats in the parade.
The last tram in Ladywood
The last tram in Ladywood ran on 30 August 1947, and everyone hangs out of the windows to be photographed on this historic occasion. The tram was on the 33 route which ran from its Navigation Street terminus ...
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy made national news. Alfred Whitehead was arrested at 128 Ledsam Street on April 5, 1883, on the charge of manufacturing nitroglycerine, or dynamite. Whitehead was ...
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
Pictures from The Dart (13th April 1883) of some of the police principals in the Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy. Top left is Sergeant Price who was the first investigating officer. Mr MacReady is an ...
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
Another page from "The Dart" about the conspiracy in Ledsam Street. The page reproduced here shows Whitehead's kitchen where he allegedly worked with the nitro-glycerine and the front of the shop at 128 ...
The Ledsam Street Post Office
This undated picture is of the post office which stood at the junction of St Vincent Street and Ledsam Street. It does not look from the picture that the post office had too long to go before closure ...
The Leveretts, Camp Lane, Handsworth
The Leveretts, Camp Lane, Handsworth. The photograph shows the Leveretts at the time it was employed by the Birmingham Corporation as a centre for treating psychiatric disorders. The land had been known ...
The Light Observation Group
Optima residents are creating designs for artworks on Attwood Green in partnership with three artists (left to right) Nayan Kulkarni, Jorge Orta and Lucy Orta. The joint collaboration is called the Light ...
The Lodge to Browne's Green
Browne's Green lodge looking back towards Handsworth Wood Road.
This was the lodge to Browne's Green House which was probably built around 1800 by Mr Nathaniel Clarke KC. Subsequent occupiers included ...
The Log of the Seagull
The Log of the Seagull
The Friends Essay Society was a group of members of the Religious Society of Friends who met at each other's houses one evening a month to read out essays which they had previously ...
The Long Jump
Although disused, Lee Bank Playing Fields was still there as of Summer 2004 when this picture was taken. It is the remains of the Long Jump which must have seen many budding Carl Lewises over the years. ...
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham at the Children's Hospital, Ladywood
In this newscutting from the Birmingham Gazette for 28th August 1941 the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and the Lady Mayoress are seen in the new block of the Children's Hospital in Ladywood Road. They are ...
The Lord's Supper, Austin Road United Church of God.
A service where members of the congregation sit around a table to receive communion. Vanley Burke gained special access to record the life of this Pentecostal Church through his grandmother and mother, ...
The Lunar Walk
Members of the Birmingham History Theatre Group gather for a group photograph outside The Venture on Malvern Street. The group were about to set off on a "Lunar Walk" along canal towpaths showcasing in ...
The Mad Dog at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, January 21st 1897.
This is a letter replying to an article in the previous days newspaper, which gave an account of a shepherd from Perry village being ...
The Maple Leaf florist shop
The shop stood on the corner of George Street West and Spring Hill. Historian Norman Bartlam noted that: "Flowers were popular at that time. "San Francisco", better known as "Be Sure To Wear Flowers In ...
The Midland Dyeing, Cleaning and Carpet Shaking Co
Two premises listed here for this company. It is interesting to note that carpets could be "taken away" for cleaning. No manager is listed for the Soho Road branch so it may have been that Walter Price ...
The Midland Vietnamese Community Association
The home of the association in Charleville Road, Handsworth.