Lodge Pool
Lodge Pool, Hamstead Hall, Hamstead. View of the pool in the lane leading to Hamstead Hall, by the side of Great Barr Station.
Lodge Road Mission Hall, Handsworth
Lodge Road Mission Hall, Handsworth, ca. 1900. Dating from 1895, it was built of red brick with stone details and included a reading room, library and refreshment room. In front of it stands a horse-drawn ...
Lodge Road, Handsworth
Lodge Road, Handsworth. The board at second-floor level on the right appears to reveal the presence of the shoe shop Freeman, Hardy & Willis. A boy with a hoop stands idly in the middle of the road to ...
Louisa Ryland
Louisa Anne Ryland was born in 1814, the daughter of Samuel Ryland of The Laurels, Hagley Road, Edgbaston. The Ryland family is first recorded in Birmingham in the 18th century and made its money in the ...
Louisa Ryland
Portrait drawing of Louisa Ryland, autographed by Miss Ryland herself. Louisa Anne Ryland was born in January 1814 into the wealthy Ryland family at The Laurels in Hagley Road, Edgbaston, the house that ...
Lozells Road, Handsworth
Old farm in Lozells Road, Handsworth, from a postcard of around 1860.
Luncheon Room in the Town Hall
This image is taken from the Illustrated London News and shows the luncheon room prepared for the visit of Queen Victoria. Where precisely this room was located is not stated. It does show though how ...
Mad dog at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, January 20th 1897.
This is the first in a series of news reports dealing with a suspected outbreak of Rabies In Perry Barr.
A collie was seen running madly ...
Mademoiselle Monte - Fortune Teller
An advert for one of the attractions held at the Saint Mary's Church Bazaar in favour of raising funds for the National Schools in Handsworth. Held over the period 14th-19th October 1893.
As neither ...
Mary Anne Boulton (nee Wilkinson)
This miniature showns Mary Anne Wilkinson as a young girl. She was the daughter of William Wilkinson and the niece of John Wilkinson, the ironmaster.
She married Matthew Robinson Boulton, the son of ...
Mary Street School
Mary Street School, which opened in 1878, was the first Board school to be built in Balsall Heath. It was renamed Belgrave School in the 1960s. The school closed in 1970, the buildings were demolished ...
Maryvale Convent, Old Oscott
Interior of the chapel, Maryvale Convent, Old Oscott, from a postcard
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton, the son of a silver-stamper, was born in Birmingham in 1728. After the death of his father, Boulton purchased a piece of barren heath at nearby Soho, and opened a much larger coin-making ...
Matthew Boulton by L.F. Abbott
This oil painting of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton by L.F. Abbott hangs in the Entrance Hall in Boulton's former home Soho House. It was painted in 1801 when Boulton was 73. At this ...
Matthew Boulton Pattern Book 1 - page 1
This pattern book is one of a series showing designs for silver, ormolu and plated ware produced by Boulton and Fothergill, M. Boulton and M. Boulton & Plate Co. At some point in the mid to late nineteenth ...
Matthew Boulton Pattern Book 1 - page 2
This volume is part of the Archives of Soho, held by Birmingham City Archives [Ref: MS3782]
'Matthew Boulton' Pattern Book 2
This gallery shows Matthew Boulton Pattern Book 2, one of a series containing designs for silver, ormolu and plated ware produced by Boulton and Fothergill, M. Boulton and M. Boulton & Plate Co. At some ...
'Matthew Boulton' Pattern Book 2 - page 100a
Designs for silver plated ware: a tureen (pattern no. 2121); a caddy (pattern no. 2122), and; a candlestick (pattern no. 2123).
This volume is part of the Archives of Soho collection, that is held ...