The Gala
Famously known as The Broadway Cinema for most of its life it was in the seventies known as The Cinephone and in the eighties as The Gala. Showing on this day was "Bambi", probably one of the summer re-runs ...
The gardens at the Middleway Blocks
This photograph was taken by resident May Williams. The four blocks, Hogarth, Faraday, Audleigh and Chiswick are still there today. Much of the surrounding development from the fifties and sixties has ...
The hall at the Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre was on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street and was formerly used by the Midland Adult School Union. This was the main hall used for many activities including talks, conferences, discos, ...
The Jewish Cemetery on Islington Row
The cemetery stood on the other side of what is now Lee Bank Middleway opposite Five Ways Railway Station and next to the railway line. It served the Jewish community for many years before falling into ...
The Jewish Cemetery, Five Ways
Memorial stone inside the former Cemetery at Five Ways. The inscription reads: "This burial ground (Betholom)is preserved by the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation in memory of the Jews of Birmingham buried ...
The Kennedy Memorial, St Chad's Circus, Birmingham
Although the memorial itself cannot be seen this photograph was taken at the unveiling of the Kennedy Memorial at St Chad's Circus, Birmingham, on 8 July 1968. The memorial, a colourful mosaic with a ...
The last tram in Ladywood
The last tram in Ladywood ran on 30 August 1947, and everyone hangs out of the windows to be photographed on this historic occasion. The tram was on the 33 route which ran from its Navigation Street terminus ...
The Middleway Blocks
This photograph, by Lewis Green, catches children from the former Lea Mason Secondary School having a break in the play area which used to be located by the four Middleway blocks. The blocks were erected ...
The number 8
The number 8 making its way towards Five Ways. In this view some of the park trees are still saplings. In the background you can see the Burman's Factory awaiting demolition and to the right of that are ...
The Old Meeting Church, Bristol Street
The Old Meeting Church stood on the east side of Bristol Street, on the corner of Ashley Street. The church was built by the Unitarians, dissenters who had quite a long history in Birmingham. The famous ...
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 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, 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
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
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, 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 Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Although an inn had been on the site of the Plough and Harrow in Hagley Road since the 18th century a new building was designed by John Fallows in a Tudor Revival style and was erected in 1832. This is ...
The Prince of Wales in Florence Street
In October 1932 the then Prince of Wales (later briefly Edward VIII) visited Birmingham and is here seen in Florence Street in a picture entitled 'Prince welcomed in the slums'. He is seen wearing a hat ...