Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, looking north at the point where the underpass would later be built. Just off the photograph to the right are Birchfield Library and the cinema.
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birmingham all year round swimming club
The club at Edgbaston Reservoir on Christmas Day 1910.
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Birchfield Road
The north-east corner of the junction of Birchfield Road and Bragg Road. The prominent corner building is a branch of the Birmingham Municipal Bank at 293 Birchfield Road. The Trustee Savings Bank took ...
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Broad Street
The Birmingham Municipal Bank was established on a permanent basis by the Birmingham Corporation Bill (it was previously Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank). The building is still there today (opposite ...
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Broad Street, Birmingham
This interior view of the Birmingham Municipal Bank in Broad Street, Birmingham, reveals the sort of space one might expect from the rather grand Neo-Classical facade. The building was designed by T. ...
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Broad Street
The second Repertory Theatre in Birmingham was opened in 1971. Its predecessor is known as "The Old Rep" and can be found on Station Street. Over the years the "New Rep" on Broad Street has played host ...
Birmingham Super Prix
Every August Bank Holiday weekend from 1986-1990 Birmingham city centre was transformed into a street racing circuit, Formula 3000 cars screaming down Bristol Street, Belgrave Middleway, Sherlock Street ...
Birthday cake on Ladypool Road
This unusual looking birthday cake certainly adds style. There are a growing number of cake and gateau outlets in the area. Taken by pupils from Anderton Park School as part of a project looking at how ...
Bissell Street
The shop at the far right is unidentifiable apart from a large advertisement for "Wills' Woodbines". The street perhaps was named after Richard Bissell Prosser, the patents examiner and biographer from ...
Bissell Street
Hackwood's Jack Tar Soap works with, looming to the left, the tower of St David's Church. The church had closed in 1947.
Black Expressions Theatre Group
This was one of the first black theatre groups set up in the area. They used to meet at the top of Villa Road
Black Patch, Woodburn Road
This piece of land had formed part of Sycamore Farm. The name Black Patch may come from a cinder track which was laid out as a training ground. Towards the end of the nineteenth century it became well ...
Blessing of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank
The blessing of the new Catholic Church of St Catherine of Siena, Lee Bank, would have taken place in 1965. The new church, designed by Harrison & Cox, was built in 1964/5 on the corner of Bristol Street ...
Blue Fence thinking
Crest Nicholson are currently redeveloping the Lee Bank area. Once an area is scheduled for clearance, fences are put up and then someone has to go around and paint them blue! Not sure why the fences ...
Blythe Street
Blythe Street is no longer there. It used to run from the Ledsam/ Ryland Street junction down to Ladywood Road. Today a school and open space occupies the site.
Blythe Street, Ladywood
Blythe Street, Ladywood, in a photograph probably taken in the 1960s before redevelopment. The photographer was apparently standing outside the unusually-named Vesper Bell public house on the corner of ...
Boar's Head Inn, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
The Boar's Head Inn in Aldridge Road, Perry Barr was originally built in 1758. This photograph shows a later 19th century building which stood until 1937 when it was demolished and replaced by the present ...