Browne's Green House
This house was probably built around 1800 although there had been a house on the site before that. James Chance the glass manufacturer lived here in the 1850s.
The house was demolished around 1900 ...
Brownes Green Lodge
This view of the Lodge dates from about 1900 when it still had a thatched roof. The thatch was replaced in 1949. Browne's Green House itself had been demolished around the time this photograph was taken, ...
Brownes Green: Keeper's Cottage
Brownes Green house was demolished at the end of the nineteenth century. It was built towards the end of the eighteenth century by Nathaniel Clarke and stood to the rear of a triangle with Handsworth ...
Browning Street corner cafe
This is probably at the junction with Great Tindal Street and St Vincent Street. A very different view to today. Back in the pre-WW1 years the Price family moved into Browning Street having moved from ...
Browning Street in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Also includes the following roads: Broomfield Road, Brougham Street, Broughton Crescent, Broughton Road, Brueton Street, Brunswick Gardens, Brunswick Road
Bruce Harris - Electrical Engineer
Bruce Harris traded on Lee Bank Road and was located right next to Villa Place (which can just be made out in the wall plaque to the left). In the Trade Directory for 1960 he is listed as being next door ...
Brunswick Road
Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath during demolition in the 1970's
Brunswick Road Street party
This party was held to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The man to the right in the dark suit and hat, shaking hands, is local councillor Percy Shurmer.
BSA advert from The Oratory church magazine
An advert for BSA's pushbikes and motorbikes as sold by The County Cycle Company who were based at 307 Broad Street. The advert tells us that a racing bike could be had for £8 5s. Roadsters were more ...
Building of the Y- Blocks
A rare photograph showing the Y-Block development under construction. In the foreground are the foundations for the small blocks of flats and in the background is Avon House. The development lies between ...
Building St Thomas's School
Two pupils of St Thomas's School on Granville Street photographed watching construction of the new school on Great Colmore Street.
Building the Duck Pond
Here we see the building of a duck pond at Balsall Heath City Farm, Malvern Street. The farm was the first building on the site created when the area underwent redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s. It ...
Building The Kingstanding Estate
‘CITY’S NEW SUBURB
MAKING THE DESERT BLOOM
DEVELOPMENT OF PERRY BARR ON MODERN LINES’
Headlines in the Birmingham News for 21st April 1928.
As early as 1913 an inquiry ...
Building the Middleway Blocks
Building of the four Middleway Blocks commenced in the early nineteen sixties. At the time this picture was taken significant land clearance has obviously taken place in what was to become the open parkland ...
Building the new Central Library
A view of the scaffolding around the new Library as it was being built. The two concrete pillars to the left and right of the picture are part of the Library structure. Intriguingly the picture also manages ...
Bulpitt and Sons Swan Brand advert 1958
Advert for Swan Brand from the Birmingham Student carnival magazine, 1958.
Bulpitt and Sons Swan Brand catalogue 1938
Long handled frying pans from the Bulpitt and Sons 1938 trade catalogue.
Bunny Johnson, Boxer
"Bunny Johnson embarked on a professional boxing career in 1968 and quickly established a reputation for being a extremely powerful and determined fighter. Despite giving away 23lbs to Richard Dunn, he ...