The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 9 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 10 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 11 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The Sentinels, Holloway Circus, Lee Bank
In April 1970 the view down Holloway Head, Lee Bank, shows the Sentinels - Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers. These matching 32-storey towers were designed by James A. Roberts in association with the City ...
The Shakespearian Bar
This pub stood on the corner of Great Colmore Street and Cregoe Street. In the distance can be seen Bradshaw's Stores and St Thomas's Church. Local resident Fred Mead remembers that the owner of the shop ...
The Shell Pool, Park Avenue
This was one of the landscaped pools laid out by Matthew Boulton in the grounds of Soho House.
In the 1880s when the Soho estate was being broken up it became part of the Shell Pool Grounds which was ...
The Ship Inn
The Ship Inn, Camp Hill established 1560.
The Silver Screen, 1990
"We did the history of cinema – the silver screen - as a float. The paintings were done by Mark Reilly. He did all our backdrops. He used to be a scout leader too. " Pat Johnson
The Singular Death of Mr Marsh
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail January 29th 1887.
This cutting gives an account of the inquest into the death of George Marsh Jones of Wellington Road, Perry Barr.
Mr Jones worked as a ...
The Sir Charles Napier Public House, Gooch Street
This pub is on the corner of Bissell Street. General Sir Charles James Napier,(August, 10, 1782 – August 29, 1853), was a general of the British Empire and the British Army's Commander-in-Chief in India, ...
The site of the new St Thomas's
The site of St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. Down to the right is Lytham Croft. The school was built to relpace the infant and junior school on Bath Row. The secondary replacement in the area ...
The site of the new St Thomas's School
This view shows the land cleared to make way for the "new" St Thomas's School in Great Colmore Street which replaced the old one on Bath Row. In the distance can be seen St Thomas's Church which to this ...
The Soho Manufactory
The Soho Manufactory was founded in 1761 by Matthew Boulton on Handsworth Heath in the parish of Handsworth near Birmingham. The site of a water mill was taken over, quickly converted and expanded over ...
The Sons of Rest, Handsworth. 22nd November 1949
The Sons of Rest movement was founded in Handsworth in 1927. A group of retired men met regularly in the bowling pavilion in the park, moving into a purpose built pavilion in 1930.
This photograph ...
The sound of drums
When the drums led the parade in the new century, you could hear it coming.
The Specials, Neville Staple
"Neville Staple sang with The Specials and was a founder member of Fun Boy Three. The Specials had a string of Top 20 hit's, the most famous being 'Ghost Town' (No 1 in 1981) and 'Too much to Young' (No ...
The Star Cafe on Mary Street
Mary Street corner with Strensham Road. The Star Cafe stands at the junction, with the beautiful iron balconies to the left, for which Mary Street is well known locally.
The Station Inn
The Station Inn at the corner of Monument Road and Cope Street. This pub was so called because the local railway station was directly opposite.The building to the right was at one time the home of the ...