Nahid Saddiqui, Kathak Dancer
"Nahid Saddiqqi, internationally acclaimed Kathak dancer, has pioneered South Asian dance in the West Midlands for more than 20 years. In the early 1980's WMEMAS arts organisation would programme cultural ...
Naomi Bull "Sunbathing": Vertical Hold
From 'Vertical Hold' artshow, Westminster Road, Handsworth. 23rd September 2002
Nature and Tower Blocks - Angela Maloney
A collection of photographs by local artist Angela Maloney contrasting tower blocks with nature. Angela has a website featuring her wonderful paintings at www.angelamaloney.co.uk. This image is of the ...
Newcastle, New South Wales in Australia by Joseph Lycett
Joseph Lycett painted the Australian colonies after he was transported there for forgery. Lycett was in fact sent to Newcastle as a consequence of further felonies in Sydney. Lycett eventually returned ...
Ni' Night
On the ninth night after a death men gather at the deceased's house. They chant readings from the bible intentionally in a long drawn out incoherent way. If someone sounds too clear, they will stop ...
Nineveh Road
This photograph was taken with a zoom lens to highlight how the houses in Handsworth were squeezed together. This and the way that front doors just opened onto the street seemed very strange to newly ...
Old oak tree at the corner of Church Lane, Perry Barr
Perry Church in the background
Watercolour by George Warren Blackham Nationality British
Active 1870- 1900
George Warren Blackham was a watercolourist who painted views of late nineteenth century ...
Old Perry from the Aldridge Road by William Nicholls
William Nicholls was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited 21 works at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1875 and 1889. His works included landscapes, rural and town scenes.
Oriental Art Studio
Stood at 328 Soho Road, Handsworth between Alfred Road and Rookery Road.
Oriental Art Studio
This was located at 328 Soho Road, Handsworth. It could be found between the junctions of Alfred Road and Rookery Road.
Oriental Art Studio
Stood at 328 Soho Road, Handsworth between Alfred Road and Rookery Road.
Ormolu and blue john ewers by Boulton and Fothergill
This pair of ormolu and blue john ewers was made by Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill at the Soho Manufactory. The Earl of Sefton paid £14.14.0 for a similar pair in 1772. Few examples of this particular ...
Ormolu vase perfume burner by Boulton and Fothergill
This ormolu and blue john perfume burner was made by Boulton and Fothergill at the Soho Manufactory.
Perfume burners or cassolettes became fashionable during the eighteenth century and were used to ...
Oxhill Road
Herbert William and Kate Emma Tonks lived at 159 Oxhill Road in the early part of the twentieth century. Herbert's business was as a Brass Founder. Despite being the proud owner of a works van, Mr Tonks ...
Palais De Danse advert
Undated advert for the Palais De Danse on Monument Road.
Pen and ink desgn for handles by John Phillp
This pen and ink drawing shows six alternative designs for handles on silver or Sheffield plate items.
It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). ...
Pen and ink drawings of eagle perched on finial by John Phillp
The purpose of these pen and ink sketches of an eagle with outspread wings perched on a finial is not clear. They may be sketch designs for a piece of metalwork to be prodyced at the Soho Manufactory.The ...
Perry Hall by Charles Walter Radclyffe
The image is taken from a book of lithographs of Perry Hall published by Wrightson and Webb of New Street in Birmingham. Charles Walter Radclyffe (1817-1903)was born in Birmingham. His work is predominately ...