The Old Moseley Arms Public House
The Old Moseley Arms on Tindal Street. A very popular pub famed for the quality of its food as well as the beer.
The Old Ship Inn at Sandy Lane, Camp Hill
At the time this photograph was taken, the "Ship Inn", so called since the early 1800s and previously known as the "Anchor", was very old. The original half-timbered farm building, with stables, barn ...
The Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth
The Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth
The Olympia Cinema on Ladypool Road
The Olympia Ladypool Road originally known as the Ladypool Picture House. In the early days a 'picture house orchestra' played every evening. The name Olympia dates from 1916 when it closed for improvements ...
The opening of Grove Lane Public Baths
Grove Lane Baths were opened on Monday 28th January 1907 by Councillor John White of the Baths and Parks Committee. The design was by J P Osborne (F.R.I.B.A.)
The opening of Moonlit Park
Children from Woodview Primary School parading into Moonlit Park during the opening ceremony. They are all decorated with stars and streamers, including the cunningly disguised shopping trolley at the ...
The opening of the Birmingham Show 1958
Birmingham Show 4th September 1958.
Eight year olds Compton Edwards and John Oakes waiting for the opening of the Birmingham Show in Handsworth Park.
The Oratory and Estate Office, Edgbaston
The buildings on the left in this Hagley Road scene form part of the Oratory and were originally the Oratory School. They were designed by Henry Clutton in a simple Italian Renaissance style in the early ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Although the Oratory of St Philip Neri had been founded in 1852 by Cardinal Newman the church seen here was not built until 1903/09, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory Church, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The church, designed by E. Doran Webb, was built from 1903 to 1909 in memory of Cardinal Newman (who had died in 1890). ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The low angle of this photograph gives some idea of the scale and richness of E. Doran Webb's building, completed in 1909. Interestingly, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Cardinal Newman, founder of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, came to Birmingham in 1849 and established the Oratory of St Philip Neri as a community ...
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Oratory in Hagley Road began as the English Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, founded by John Henry Newman in 1849. On moving to the Hagley Road site in 1852 Newman engaged Terence Flanagan ...
The Osler Street School magazine
The cover of 'Osmag', the magazine of Osler Street School, Ladywood, as it was in 1950, featuring a footballer who looks rather too beefy to be a pupil.
"Osmag" was the chronicle of Osler Street Secondary ...
The OSMAG March 1925
Front cover of the Osler Street Boys school magazine for March 1925.
The Palais De Danse - Sensation of the Midlands
This article was originally published in the "Brew 'Us Bugle" about the Palais De Danse in Ladywood.
On 20th December 1923 the Palais De Danse issued a souvenir of the third anniversary of the building. ...
'The Patrician'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] The Art Gallery, Hanley. 1950’ & 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case
A newscutting relating the the inquest following the death of Eliza Garland who drowned in the Tame Valley Canal. Two onlookers, Francis Perigo and Joseph Horton attempted to rescue her but did not get ...