Rotton Park Street Salvage Works, Ladywood
Wide angle view of the works which was opened on 5th October 1932.
Round Room at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The famous Round Room looking very different to how it is today. It still has paintings on the walls and the floor looks to be the same. In this view from the early part of last century the main difference ...
Royal Visit of George V and Queen Mary
Following the end of the First World War George V expressed a wish to make a visit to Birmingham. He had last been in 1915 to see facilities for wounded soldiers at Bournbrook and was known to have a ...
Rum Runner on Broad Street
The Rum Runner was located just along from where the Hyatt Hotel stands on Broad Street. A famous Broad Street music venue which will be forever remembered because Duran Duran played there so often in ...
Ruston Street, Ladywood
A scene in Ruston Street, Ladywood, photographed in 1961. This would appear to be a courtyard off Ruston Street, judging by the street-lamp and the path leading to the front doors of the 'back houses'. ...
Ruston Street, Ladywood
Numbers 3-7 in Court 3 taken circa 1901-1906. The picture was taken prior to some of the slum clearances in Birmingham at that time.
Ruston Street, Ladywood
Numbers 3-7 in Court 2 Ruston Street. This is a companion picture to the other one on the site of Court 3.
Ryland Road - by Year Five at Woodview School
Taken by the children on their tour of the area. This doorway and window attracted some interest due to it's unique architecture in the road.
Salvage depot Rotton Park Street.
Billy Codling is the man in the middle of this trio of workers at the salvage depot. Taken in the late 1990's.
Same Day Dry Cleaning and Laundry Service - by Year Five at Woodview
A good laundrette which lots of people go to. This is facing onto Bristol Road just round the corner from Stone Road.
Samuel M. Goldstein - lecturer and writer
This profile, from the Sunday Mercury, is of one of their regular writers. Goldstein, of 35 Holloway Head. There was at this time a large Jewish community in the Holloway Head area with two synagogues ...
Save kitchen waste to feed the pigs!
Wartime poster produced to encourage saving of kitchen waste to feed pigs. The poster was produced by the HMSO (Her Majesty's Stationery Office) and is number SP52. These posters were common sights around ...
Sax Rohmer: Man Who Plotted To Rule The World - by Chris Upton
“He had a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan. Something serpentine, hypnotic, was in his very presence. Smith drew one sharp breath and was silent. Together, chained to the wall, two medieval ...
Scala Cinema, Smallbrook Street, Birmingham
The Scala Cinema, in Smallbrook Street, Birmingham, was opened on 4 March 1914 and in its earlier days was famous for its 12-piece orchestra. Unlike some cinemas it had an air of luxury about it in its ...
School Days - by Joan Brady
Joan talks about her own memories of school in the area and that of her mother, Jose.
Jose went to St Thomas’s School, between about 1921 and 1930, and she always said that her favourite teacher was ...
School Hall in St Lukes
Today (2004) the building is a Surestart centre. The hall is used for meetings but still retains reminders of the past. The climbing frames for PE are visible to the back of this photograph.
School play at St Thomas's School
The photograph dates from around 1954/55 and is courtesy of Pat Jones (nee Rogers). Pat recalls that the production took place in the school playground. Fifth left in the cape is David Rogers.
St ...
Scotland Street and Louisa Street, Ladywood
A view of the corner where Scotland Street meets Louisa Street, Ladywood. In this photograph, dated 15 November 1960, Scotland Street is on the right. On this site today is a modern apartment block for ...