Rotary Charity Ball at the Palais De Danse
7/6 and formal dress would have got you into the Rotarian's dance at the Palais De Danse. The Palais was on Monument Road and one of the most popular venues in the Ladywood area.
Rotton Park Street Salvage Depot
This image is from the brichure for the official opening of the depot in Octover 1932. Here we can see the V.I.P.'s arriving for the opening ceremony. To the rear are a couple of the new salvage trucks....
Rotton Park Street Salvage Works
The workforce gathered in what is probably the canteen area. To the rear can be seen the chef and kitchen staff. This image was taken on the opening day and so they were gathered for this official photograph ...
Rotton Park Street Salvage Works - canteen
This view of the canteen looks like something out of a Dickens novel. A very serious looking picture indeed. The image is from the brochure commemorating the official opening of the depot in 1932.
Rotton Park Street Salvage Works, Ladywood
Wide angle view of the works which was opened on 5th October 1932.
Rough Road, Kingstanding
Rough Road, Kingstanding, an untouched rural lane in 1928
Rough Road, Perry Barr
Rough Road, Perry Barr, on 14th September 1932 when new housing had spread along one side and the road had been kerbed and surfaced.
Round Room at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The famous Round Room looking very different to how it is today. It still has paintings on the walls and the floor looks to be the same. In this view from the early part of last century the main difference ...
Saint James' Church General committee
The committee in November 1929 responsible for setting up the Fancy Fair held at the New Inns Assembly Rooms between the 20th and 23rd. The members were: Reverend T.S. Cave (chairman),Reverend J.R. Wardle, ...
Sale Catalogue for the contents of Heathfield Hall
George Tangye, a prominent local businessman and engineer leased Heathfield Hall, the former home of James Watt in 1876 and remained there until his death in 1920.
Following his death a sale of the ...
Shady Lane, Kingstanding
Old school house, Shady Lane, Kingstanding, on 13th October 1938. Not recorded before 1840, the building was demolished soon afterwards but had ceased to be a school in 1900.
Shady Lane, Kingstanding
The old school house, Shady Lane, Kingstanding, shortly before demolition in 1938. The school itself had closed in 1900.
Shady Lane, Kingstanding
Old school house, Shady Lane, Kingstanding. First mentioned in the index to the 1840 tithe map, the building was photographed in 1938 just before demolition. To the right is the door of All Saints Church....
Shady Lane, Oscott
The old school house in Shady Lane, Oscott, in a photograph taken just prior to demolition on 13th October 1938. It stood next to All Saints' Church and was first recorded in 1840. The school itself ...
Ships from the Adriatic at Venice - Joseph Southall
This painting by Joseph Southall is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It was presented to them by Anne Elizabeth Southall in 1945. The Gallery note that: "Southall's brilliant draughtsmanship ...
Singers Hill Synagogue, Lee Bank
Interior of the Singers Hill Synagogue, Blucher Street, Lee Bank. The Synagogue was built in 1856 to the Italianate designs of H. R. Yeoville Thomason. In 1937 the building was modernised and the seating ...
Singing specialist on Pershore Road
This advert is for Mr Cola D'Ore - a "teacher of voice production and singing in the true old Italian method". Mr D'Ore gives some useful references to follow up. John Sims Reeves was an English vocalist ...