Bell barn shopping centre
Located just off Cregoe Street, this is how the one side of the shopping centre looked in 1974. The lady on the right has been identified as local resident Gladys Nend. Her sister still lives in the area ...
Bell Barn Shopping Centre on day of demolition
Taken just before demolition. The Bell Barn Shopping Centre was part of the Lee Bank redevelopment and was located about half way up Cregoe Street.
Bell Barn Shopping Centre, Lee Bank
Bell Barn shopping centre, off Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, was a small precinct built during the 1960s redevelopment of the area. Oddly enough it was not particularly close to Bell Barn Road. When this photograph ...
Bellamy and Wakefield
This Chemists was located on Easy Row for many years. Interestingly they advertise that they also deal in tea and are Italian warehousemen! Easy Row has long since vanished as part of the city's regeneration ...
Bellamys Transport Company
Bellamys Transport Company on Granville Street. The Company later moved to Clement Street and expanded into a garage and petrol station.
It was located opposite the site of the current National Indoor ...
Belle Vue Cottage, Brewery Street
Bellis and Morcom Works Canteen
Used by many workers over the lifetime of the factory. Bellis and Morcom remains one of the most fondly remembered workplaces in Ladywood.
Bellringers at St Mary's Church
A group portrait of the bellringers at Saint Mary's Church taken sometime in the early 1900's. The only identified person is the gentleman to the far right, A. Paddon Smith. Mr Smith became Lord Mayor ...
Benacre Street
Benacre Street is seen here in a photograph taken on 7 June 1951, although the car would not appear to be a current model. Some sort of redevelopment seems to be taking place, perhaps after wartime damage. ...
Bench outside Hogarth House
Hogarth House is one of the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway.
Benjamin Wyatt & Sons Account, 1769
Benjamin Wyatt (1755-1813) of Sutton Coldfield was an architect and builder and a cousin of the famous architects James and Samuel Wyatt.
The bill is for 'sundrys as under for ye building done at Soho ...
Benjamin Wyatt & Sons Account, 1769, reverse
Benjamin Wyatt (1755-1813) of Sutton Coldfield was an architect and builder and a cousin of the famous architects James and Samuel Wyatt.
The bill is for 'sundrys as under for ye building done at Soho ...
Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet
"Born 1958 in Black River, Jamaica. Zephaniah came to England at the age of two and lived in the Lozells district of Birmingham. In the early part of his career, he performed politically motivated 'dub ...
Benmore Avenue
This aerial view of the Benmore estate shows Benmore Avenue across the centre with the row of cars. To the left is Speedwell Road running between Bristol Road (at the top) and Pershore Road (at the bottom). ...
Benmore Estate
A view of part of the Benmore estate, which transformed the narrow stretch of land between Bristol Road and Pershore Road.
Benmore Stores
Benmore Stores, on the Benmore Avenue estate, an area redeveloped between Pershore Road and Bristol Road where the two roads run parallel to each other.
Bernard Allen and Jean Butler outside 24 Lee Crescent
Bernard Allen at work in Freeman and Ward
Freeman and Ward was located at the Bath Row end of Cregoe Street. They made equipment for the local hospital as well as brass and copperware. Bernard Allen started work there as a 14 year old. Here he ...