Handsworth Market
"Handsworth Market was usually bustling with stallholders and shoppers from varied cultural backgrounds. Selling everything from saris, sweet potatoes and reggae tapes, immediately after the disturbances ...
Handsworth Market, Soho Road
This once thriving and popular market is now closed. At the beginning of 2003 it lies derelict.
Handsworth Market, Wig Stall
Handsworth Old Rectory (and Manor House) - Sites and Monuments Record
The site of the Manor House was "not improbably" that occupied by the old rectory, close to the church, now part of Victoria Park. Its moat could have been fed by the little stream that still trickles ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
Dating from the fifteenth century this is a fine example of the "cruck" method of construction with oak trunks supporting the walls (clearly visible in the end wall here). The Hall was rebuilt in the ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
A different view of the hall to the way it is seen today, overgrown with creepers.
Handsworth Old Town Hall - Sites and Monuments Record
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane, some 100 yds below the Grove Tavern. It is of plain domestic architecture of the sixteenth century community of Handsworth, when it was a mere village. ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, and tenement, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
This painting shows the Old Town Hall as it appeared in 1840. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Handsworth
Cruck House at the junction of Slack Lane and College Road, Handsworth, on 13th August 1932. The listed building, also known as Handsworth Old Town Hall, dates back to the 15th century and was restored ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Handsworth
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth, photographed in November 1981. Using the traditional cruck method of timber framing, the building dates from the 15th century and was renovated in 1947....
Handsworth Parish Church
From an old print by Rev Stebbing Shaw. Watercolour by Joseph F. Pimm who gave this picture to Handsworth Historical Society.
Joseph Pimm lived in Woodstock Road, Handsworth. He presented 12 etchings ...
Handsworth Parish Church
Oil painting by J. Beardman of Saint Mary's Church. In the collection of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Handsworth Park and Saint Mary's Church
Tinted colour postcard view of the church from the park. The Victorian Fountain is clearly visible tothe right.
Handsworth Park Bandstand - Sites and Monuments Record
Late nineteenth century. Octagonal in plan. Brick base with iron Corinthian columns carrying elaborate ironwork with stars in the spandrels.
The bandstand has a domed roof with cupola and weathervane....
Handsworth Park, Handsworth
An attractive view of the boating pool in Handsworth Park, Handsworth, artistically framed in foliage. Rising above the trees is the tower of the parish church, which by the time this photograph was taken ...
Handsworth Park, Handsworth
Park House in Handsworth Park, Handsworth, about 1930. Originally called Grove House and situated in Grove Lane, Park House was built by William Bratt in 1780. Subsequently the house and grounds were ...
Handsworth Park: Entrance to Hamstead Road
Colour tinted postcard of the entrance to the park from Hamstead Road. This view was taken around 1910 and is instantly recognisable today.Also known as Victoria Park it was opened on Jubilee Day in ...