'Tell Me Mirror'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] Royal Leamington Spa. 1948' & 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. Accepted ...
Temple Minaret
View from the Soho Road.
Tenant's Deposit- Wynn Street
Receipt for the deposit paid by Dorothy Blackford and her husband for their flat on Wynn Street. The Blackford family were paid a visit by the Queen Mother as part of her visit to the area. The Queen ...
Terms for Footmen, Soho House
This memorandum sets out the wages and liveries for Footmen at Soho House. Soho House the former home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was by this date the home of his widowed ...
Terms of agreement for Edward Vale, Coachman
This memorandum sets out the terms of agreement for Edward Vale the Coachman at Soho House. By this date Soho House was the home of Matthew Robinson Boulton and his young family.
Vale came to Soho ...
Terrace in Bell Barn Road after an air raid
The damage was from an air raid of 9th April 1941, the picture being taken three days later. The family smiling for the camera are possibly a surprise to modern day viewers of this photograph. The determination ...
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 ...
Terrace of thirty three storey houses with central carriage arch by John Phillp
It is likely that this pen and ink with watercolour elevation of terraced houses was drawn from imagination rather than life. It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by ...
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 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment go back to Sutton Park
Report from the Birmingham Post about the reunion of the 15th Battalion Royal Warwicks who were raised as the Second Birmingham "Pals" Regiment in 1914. The battalion underwent basic training at Sutton ...
The 15th Battalion veterans back at Sutton Park
Closeup view of the Royal Warwickshire veterans at Sutton Park in 1964.
Chairman R.A. Pritchard is the man to the right of the photograph. The other men in the photograph are not named but are probably ...
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 ARP Shelter on George Road
One of the toilets in the underground ARP (Air-Raid Precautions)shelter on George Road in Edgbaston. The shelter had been dis-used since World War Two but the rooms and many of the fittings remain intact ...
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 Art of J.B. Higginbotham
An exploration of the art of James Bungo Higginbotham (the pen name used by Harry Bernard Wallis). The volume includes a handwritten introduction by Wallis and then descriptions of each of the plates. ...