Walking and talking
The first of two pictures. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat of a couple deep in conversation. The outcome in the second picture shows them walking with a suitcase. The story behind it though ...
Wall planer from Soho Foundry, Handsworth
Wall planer from Soho Foundry, Handsworth, believed (in 1941) to be one of the oldest machine tools in the world. It is supposed to have been bought from the Soho Factory, and ca.1800 has been suggested ...
Wallis Family Papers - Boys in costume
Photograph of two boys from the Wallis family in costume. The children of the family would perform plays for their family, writing scripts, creating admission tickets and posters themselves. The image ...
Wallpaper found at Soho House
This wallpaper was found in the Drawing Room at Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton. It was behind a large sheet of lead which had been placed there in the nineteenth century, presumably in ...
Wallpaper found at Soho House
This section of wallpaper was found in the Drawing Room at Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton now a museum. Initial survey work was undertaken prior to restoring the house to its appearance ...
Walter Langley - artist from Irving Street and Lee Crescent
Walter Langley was the first major artist to settle at Newlyn in Cornwall, and as such was one of the most important of the colony of artists there. While to some extent overshadowed by Stanhope Forbes, ...
Walter Langley - Exhibition
An exhibition of some work by local artist, Walter Langley.
Langley was born in Irving Street on June 8th 1852, the son of William Langley (a Birmingham tailor) and Mary Ann Langley. He was apprenticed ...
Walter Langley: 'But men must work and women must weep...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) after his upbringing in Irving Street, and his training at South Kensington School of Art moved to Cornwall and devoted his painting career to scenes of life in Cornish fishing ...
Walter Langley: 'Disaster! Scene in a Cornish fishing village'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events ...
Walter Langley: 'Memories'
Walter Langley, born in 1852 and brought up in Irving Street, later became part of the Newlyn School of English painters. His subject matter was largely the lives of Cornish fisherfolk, and 'Memories' ...
Walter Langley: 'Never morning wore to evening...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was born in Birmingham and was brought up in Irving Street. He trained at South Kensington School of Art (1873-75) and later on, in 1882, went to live in Newlyn, Cornwall, as ...
Walter Langley: 'O! for the touch of a vanish'd hand...'
Walter Langley (1852-1922) was a genre painter favouring fishing village scenes which are a far cry from his childhood in Irving Street, Edgbaston (now in Lee Bank). From 1882 he lived in Cornwall at ...
War Memorial in Handsworth Cemetery
Commemorating the dead of both World Wars.
Warren Farm
Warren Farm photographed for the Perry Hall auction catalogue in 1921.
Warship Week
Advert from the Birmingham Post for the city's "Warship Week" in 1941. Ten million was trying to be raised for HMS King George V to be adopted by the city for the war.
HMS King George V launched on ...
Wartime wedding at St Catherine of Siena
The wedding in April 1916 of Private J. Devaney of the 3rd Worcestershire Regiment to Catherine Hayes of Edgbaston. Having checked the Medal Cards at Kew there is no Private Devaney listed for the Worcesters ...
Warwickshire Laundries, Ladypool Road
Advert for the company reading: "Open the door to freedom, by using the Warwickshire Laundries fully finished service". The laundry was baed at 96 Ladypool Road and had delivery offices from as far away ...
Warwickshire Quarterly Meeting Book of Sufferings 1790 - 1828
From the early days of Quakerism, Friends were subjected to persecution, which at times was violent and in some cases led to death in prison or on release from prison. In the 1660s, a series of acts aimed ...