Cable Tram on Soho Road
The number 95 cable tram to New Inns. According to the caption the tram is pictured on the Soho Road. Trams carried advertising for products of the day - on this tram are adverts for Birds Custard (produced ...
Calthorpe Cottages, Wood Lane
Cambridge Crescent, Lee Bank
No. 1, Cambridge Crescent, Lee Bank. This scene, photographed on 11 October 1960, could be in some quiet little market town, but Cambridge Crescent is off Springbank Road, just round the corner from Wellington ...
Cambridge Street
This view of Cambridge street is radically different to today. Not much stnads there now with the Rep carpark on one side and a garden on the other for most of its length. Back in 1928 it was the usual ...
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth, in 1908. This is the site where Handsworth Cemetery was laid out, opening the following year.
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Corner of Camp Lane, Handsworth, in June 1908. This was the site of the new Handsworth Cemetery, which opened the following year.
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth, showing one of the Regency-style lodges at the junction of Camp Lane and Park Lane. These had belonged to the 18th-century house, 'The Leveretts', but subsequently formed one of ...
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth. Near the entrance to Handsworth Cemetery not far from Holyhead Road
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth, looking north-east towards the bottom of the hill. The site of the new cemetery is on the left of the photograph. The poster on the tree to the left mentions the site development ...
Canalside Signpost
This post is by the canal, just down the steps from the entrance at the end of Bath Row where it joins Islington Row. Distances are listed to:
The Vale, Somerset Road, University, Granville Street, ...
Cannon Hill Park
The gatehouse entrance to Cannon Hill Park on the corner of Speedwell Raod and Pershore Road
Cannon Hill Park Gatehouse
Cannon Hill Gatehouse on Edgbaston Road built for when the park opened in 1873
Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Handsworth
Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Soho Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. Opened in 1930, the church had been founded in 1737 in Cannon Street, Birmingham, but had been demolished when Corporation ...
Canon Edward F. Fenn
Father Fenn founded the Mission of St. Catherine in the Horsefair. He was born in Wolverhampton on 4th September 1837. After spending one year working at St. Chad's Cathedral he arrived in Bristol Street ...
Can't Stop
This letter from 'Indignant' complains of the difficulty of getting off trams at Wellington Road. The writer maintains that conductors persist in pulling the bell to go on before the car has stopped ...
Captain Alfred John Loftus
By the demise on the 29th ult, of Captain Alfred John Loftus, F.R.G.S, Handsworth has lost one of the most picturesque of her residents. (Captain Loftus lived at 6 Grosvenor Road).
He was born at Darlington, ...
Car crash in Edgbaston
This newscutting from the Birmingham Gazette of 2 December 1924 reports a road accident in Hagley Road, Edgbaston. Two people in the car escaped with their lives when the vehicle skidded and hit a tramcar ...
Cards on the Car Bonnet
Youths playing cards on a car bonnet, off Grove Lane.