Handsworth Grammar School - Sites and Monuments Record
Designed in 1862 by a Mr Bidlake of Wolverhampton at a cost of £3,300. Constructed from red and black brick with stone dressings and a tile roof.
The building is single storeyed with seven bays. The ...
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane, Handsworth. It was founded with a grant from the Bridge Trust and opened, as the Bridge Trust School, on 5th August 1862 with 59 pupils. The name was changed ...
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane
Handsworth Grammar School opened as the Bridge Trust School on 5th August 1862. The original building cost £2,300 and consisted of one large schoolroom, two smaller classrooms, a cloakroom, a porch and ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane
This school was opened 5th August 1862 by the Handsworth Bridge Trust to provide education for boys aged seven to fourteen. The land for the site of the school was purchased by the Bridge Trust for £1,000 ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth. Opened as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth, in a postcard view. Originally built as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became the Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Hall
Lithograph by T Underwood, Birmingham.
Handsworth Hall was situated in extensive grounds covering the area of Villa Road, Rose Hill, Crick Lane and Broughton Road. The site of the actual house was at ...
Handsworth Landscape
View of Handsworth in the snow from the railway near Ninevah Road. Handsworth Library Clock, Soho Road can be seen in the distance.
Handsworth Landscape
Albert Road, Handsworth
Handsworth Landscape
View of Handsworth from the railway line near Nineveh Road. The clock on Soho Road is visible in the distance.
Handsworth Library
The Librarian's Room at Handsworth Library. 1913. The library was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and newspapers in the Reading Room. The first Annual Report in 1881 stated that the ...
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for childrens' books. The view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for fiction books, the view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and ...
Handsworth Library
Undated photograph of the library probably taken sometime in the 1990's. The library is one of the oldest buildings standing on the Soho Road.
Handsworth Library and Council Buildings
One afternoon in October 2003
Handsworth Library on the Soho Road
Handsworth Library's 19th Century readers
Who were the people using Handsworth Library in the late nineteenth century?
Until 1902 the Annual Report recorded the trades of borrowers. 'Scholars and students' were always the largest group. There ...